On Jul. 25, 2022 Jeff Kern asked K. Scott Rowe to head a tiger team to investigate the various issues that have affected the ALMA Archive hosted in CV for the past few weeks to months. The team was initially just K. Scott.
Documented Issues
- https://ictjira.alma.cl/browse/AES-52
- https://confluence.alma.cl/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=91826715
People (not necessarily team members)
- K. Scott Rowe - Tiger Team Lead
- CJ Allen - sysadmin
- Tom Booth - programmer
- Liz Sharp - sysadmin
- Brian Mason - DRM Scientist
- Zhon Butcher - sysadmin
- Tracy Halstead - sysadmin
- Alvaro Aguirre - ALMA software
- Pat Murphy - CIS lead
- Rachel Rosen - previous ICT lead
- Laura Jenson - current ICT lead
- Catherine Vlahakis - Scientist
Communcation lines
- Mattermost NAASC Systems - Mostly used by NAASC sysadmins
- asg@listmgr.nrao.edu email list run by rrosen (Sadly, no archives are kept)
Timeline
- 2020-03-19: ALMA suspends science observing and stows the array because of COVID-19.
- 2020-06-24: Archive webapps (aq, asaz, rh, etc, but not SP) moved to new Docker Swarm system. See more.
- 2021-03-17: ALMA re-starts limited science observations, resuming Cycle 7. See more.
- 2021-10-01: ALMA starts Cycle 8 observations. See more.
- 2022-02-03: Science Portal (SP) upgraded Plone, Python, RHEL and moved into Docker Swarm
- 2022-04-18: First documented report of performance issues
- 2022-05-09: moved Science Portal (SP) from Docker Swarm to an rsync copy on http://almaportal.cv.nrao.edu/ for performance issues
- 2022-05-31: moved Science Portal (SP) from rsync copy back to Docker Swarm
References
- Prepare offline infrastructure from the scratch (Describes docker swarm setup)
- file:///tmp/ALMA%20Offline%20Software%20Test_Deployment%20Concept(2).pdf