2025-01-24 Meeting notes

Agenda

• News

  • RADIAL update
  • New workspaces+VLASS in test
• Program Administration 
• Science Ready Data Products
  
  • Exact timing of spectral line pipeline/cal+img deployment
  • QA-related pipeline requests in the "no flagging" era
    • Large image/cube mitigation.
    • High weights flagging.
  • New VLA ops DA starting March 10th
• VLASS
  
  • Planning for VLASS-II
    
    • Options for cubes
      • 1" sampling
      • combine with SECI? (but would need awphpg working with full Stokes to be efficient).
    • Options for high ZD SECI 
      • awphpg plus GPUs from LCCF (~$10m??)
      • new mtmfs from cube with per-plane postition fixes.
    • Request QuartiCal style phase+delay cal (~200 fields will benefit).
    • In contact with Texas TACC/LCCF for testing, initial allocation of 50k GPU hrs.
    • Purchase order for GPUs in.
    • AWP2 validation close.
    • Jeff setting up meetings on the DMS side.
  • Ep3  QL catalog - ask Dillon
• AOB