2025-02-21 Meeting notes

Date:21 Feb 2025

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

ER209

Attendees

Agenda

• News

• Program Administration 
  • Beyond SRDP:
    •  VLA pipeline development?
    • Product owner for Workspaces?
• Science Ready Data Products
  
  • Testing of cal+img underway
  • Pipeline test version by 19th
  • QA-related pipeline requests in the "no flagging" era
    • Large image/cube mitigation.  PIPE-2452 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    • AQUA report  PIPE-730 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• VLASS
  
  • Planning for VLASS-II
    
    • Now have Texas TACC account set up.
      • Laura will set up meeting to discuss DMS involvement in TACC GPU testing.
    • JHU has available computing, but need to pay cash...
    • VLASS-II priorities:
      • Validate pipeline for 1" cubes wit tapering (SECC)
      • Validate and profile hpgawp (GPU) pipeline locally (L4s)
        • PIPE-2423 - Getting issue details... STATUS
      • Get awphpg running on different GPUs
      • VLASS manager changes/data origin setup.
        • K Scott has "read only" version running, need to get products back.
    • 30 GPUs arrived, asked K Scott to install 3-4 for testing.
    • Have 200TB of space in /lustre/projects/vlass until Feb 2026 (then goes back to 100TB).
  • Ep3  QL catalog - Dillon to write-up paper with catalogs, we will put them on VLASS website.
  • Dillon's median stack QL images now available from the VLASS cache
  • New Ep1+2 catalog for SECI masks being tested.
  • Calibrator uv ranges - Tierra testing.
  • 2.1 SECIs at end of processing chain to be placed "on ice" (~ 100 images) in case improved calibration can be implemented in CASA by the end of VLASS-II
• AOB

Overdue Action Items:

Upcoming Action Items: