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Date:07 Mar 2025

Time: 10:30 ET (8:30 MT)

ER209

Attendees

Agenda

• News

• Program Administration
• Science Ready Data Products
  
  • AAT4.3.4/WS2.8.7/VLASS 2.4.4 deployed
    
    • Enables cal+img, easy to change default workflow processing settings.
      
  • Pipeline pending a couple of minor fixes:
    

    • Jira
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    • Jira
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    • Pending feedback from production tests now.
      • If OK, expect new tarball next week.
      • small recipe change to move the combined continuum image, need to check to see if SSA will pick it up. Also should be added to VLA pipeline webpage.
  • QA-related pipeline requests in the "no flagging" era
    • Large image/cube mitigation. 

      Jira
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    • AQUA report 

      Jira
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    • Tickets to be created: VLA QA Evaluation criteria
• VLASS
  
  • Planning for VLASS-II
    
    • Now have Texas TACC account set up.
      • Plan sent to Jeff for DMS effort request for VLASS-II
    • VLASS-II priorities:
      • Validate pipeline for 1" cubes with tapering (SECC)
        • Looked into varying cube plane sizes/pixel scales, not much gain.
        • Testing tapering to ~3". Looks like tests may be working.
      • Validate and profile hpgawp (GPU) pipeline locally (L4s)
        • GPU gridder working in tclean alone, issues with VIP script
      • Get awp2/awphpg into pipeline: 
        

        • Jira
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        • Waiting for CASA 6.7.1 branch
      • Get awphpg running on different GPUs (specifically H100 Grace Hoppers at TACC).
      • VLASS manager changes/data origin setup.
        • K Scott has "read only" version running, need to get products back.
    • 30 GPUs arrived, 3 installed in nmpost091-093, can run 27 at once in NMTech.
  • Moving VLASS stash data back to lustre and serving it to community from there
    • List of what is where and needs to be copied over on VLASS Product storage
    • (late breaking) on hold for now due to lack of inodes on lustre.
  • Ep3  QL catalog - Dillon to write-up paper with catalogs, we will put them on VLASS website.
  • Steve publishing HIPS to CDS.
    • Will appear in CARTA-5 when registered, should do a joint eNews.
  • New Ep1+2 catalog for SECI masks look good, implementation:

    Jira
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  • Calibrator uv ranges - Tierra testing.
  • 2.2 SE calibration begun for EBs that need uv-ranges set
    • compressionantexclude - James testing
  • ML and DA(s) to check 3C138 for pol angle changes prior to 4.1.
    • Rick Perley is looking at this too, so we may not need to.
• AOB
  • Cosmic AI call for small (~$30k) proposals, abstracts due next Friday 

Overdue Action Items:

Upcoming Action Items: