Track Brian Kent's issue.Page for tracking an apparently slow down w.r.t CASA-5 and CASA-6 for VLASS calibration: https://open-jira.nrao.edu/browse/PIPE-568
Comparing CASA-5 and CASA-6 (casa-pipeline-validation-8) across the two different CPUs available for batch processing in NM and CV shows that the newer CPUs (E5-2640v3) run a small calibration job (6.7GB) about 1.25 times faster than the old CPUs (E5-2670) with CASA-6 performing slower in every case. There was no significant run-time difference between NM and CV for similar hardware and software.
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