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Main page: VLASS SE Imaging operations

Roadmap: SE Imaging Operations Roadmap

External processing page: VLASS SE External Processing

HTCondor area: High Throughput Computing with HTCondor

Attendees: James,  Brian

Agenda (Primarily

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focused on roadmap)

• Coordination/Logistics
  • Agree to label all tickets within various groups with a VLASS-SE-OPS label plus state labels described here: Jira Labels and Component Lists
• Schedule (broad strokes, need to flesh out details)
  • Roadmap (thanks to Mark Whitehead) page set up here following proposed DMS model:  SE Imaging Operations Roadmap
  • Need to work with Pipeline and SSA to further flesh out Roadmap, goal is to have a first full draft done by end of month.  
• Pipeline
  • Need list of existing tickets tied to SE imaging (I can go in and add labels)
  • Is the plan to make a separate task or leverage existing task
  • how to manage pybdsf and other external python apps (largest concern), could use sequence manager class to iterate over tclean in different ways, may be able to use
  • Can each tclean() call be checkpointed and restarted.
  • Packaging question w.r.t. pipeline for external packages
  • Can some external scripts be reimplemented in CASA pipeline or always externally called scripts
  • Weblog completely uncertain 
• SSA
  • Need list of existing tickets tied to SE imaging (I can go in and add labels)
  • Split pipeline between data selection and mstransform and imaging (should this be done in the pipeline recipe, ie hifv_splitms() or some such)
  • HTCondor effort, when to start, how to coordinate, how to set up test environment (want to start in June, need to discuss what it should look like)
  • How to incorporate into workflow manager vs vlass manager
  • How to track SE-continuum products and their possible inclusion in SE-cube imaging (relevant in the short term,  inputs to Cube need to be known so they can drive continuum products  (IDs, name formats etc)
• SCG
  • Return to effort to create an external imaging approach with decomposition along the major/minor cycle and SPWs. Imaging with HTCondor
  • Assist other groups, set up test environments
  • Coordinate with CHTC NRAO-CHTC HTCondor collaboration
  • Can we split the pipeline in to the PSF and MASK steps and the final imaging steps, has utility for the 

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