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Software Plan of Record

Cycle 2 2005 (February 14 - March 31, 2005)

• Software Plan of Record
  • Cycle 2 2005 (February 14 - March 31, 2005)
  • 1. Operational/Scientific Support Items Completed During C2 2005
  • 2. Commitments
  • 3. Background Tasks:
  • 4. Tasks that will not be completed this cycle:
  • 5. Future Things to Think About

Key for the "Status" column:

• means the task has been successfully completed
• means the task has been completed and is awaiting integration tests
• ok means that the task is not yet complete or ready for tests, but NMR has evaluted results & progress is clearly on track

1. Operational/Scientific Support Items Completed During C2 2005

• date - who - what - why
• 02/15 - Mark - missing entries for Spectrometer FITS files
• 02/22 - Mark - chasing user programs sluggishness
• 02/28 - Mark - investigated and suggested work-around for software bug in PF support rack (since fixed)
• 03/05 - Mark - found cause of failure of spectral processor in pulsar mode
• 03/09 - Amy - Looked into Toney's report of Turtle not creating a GO FITS file. Turns out that he was missing a configuration keyword in his setup.
• 03/14 - Melinda - gbtstatus question from Phil concerning the contents of frequency variables
• 03/18 - Melinda - RP questioned the Az and El error values reported by gbtstatus
• 03/08 - Melinda - config tool - patched in requested change for spp users per tm and fg.
• 03/08 - Amy - turtle - Patched in configuration upgrades.
• 03/21 - Mark - gfm - could run pointing/focus scans because of incomplete headers in Antenna FITS
• 03/23 - Amy - turtle - Patched in setting of userTransformEnable to zero when configuring.
• 03/24 - Amy - BCPM - Diagnosed faulty EDT card. Handed problem off to Scott Ransom.

2. Commitments

Project	TASK	MR	Sponsor	Lead	Checker	Notes	Status
DataHandlingImprovements	Work towards 5/30/2005 release as per project plan	N/A	RonMaddalena	BobGarwood	JimBraatz
DataHandlingImprovements	Work towards IDL deployment issues as specified in project plan	N/A	NicoleRadziwill	PaulMarganian	NicoleRadziwill	See Status
DataHandlingImprovements	Resolve sdfits known issues as per project plan	ModificationRequest6C205	RonMaddalena	PaulMarganian	NicoleRadziwill	11 of 13 issues coded and tested. SP issues not supported. See status
DataHandlingImprovements	Add SDFITS epoch keyword	N/A	KarenONeil	PaulMarganian	MelindaMello	Tested by Tim Robishaw
DataHandlingImprovements	CLASS update for Gary Fuller	N/A	JimBraatz	PaulMarganian	JimBraatz	done
PennArrayReceiver	Penn Array software project charter	N/A	BrianMason	MelindaMello	NicoleRadziwill	Complete
PennArrayReceiver	Complete MR for M&C/IRC interfaces	ModificationRequest5C105, ModificationRequest8C105	BrianMason	MelindaMello	NicoleRadziwill	Complete
PennArrayReceiver	Write MR for Pennarray FITS skeleton	ModificationRequest1C205?	BrianMason	MelindaMello	NicoleRadziwill	I am still investigating the IRC mechanisms that will enable me to specify the task. I don't want to write the MR incorrectly and commit myself to the wrong requirements or design.
PTCS	Put together order for equipment for vortex replacement.	N/A	NicoleRadziwill	JoeBrandt	NicoleRadziwill	Purchase order submitted.
PTCS	Antenna trajectory data analysis investigation. Deliverable: Investigation results.	AntennaTrajectorySubproject	RichardPrestage	JoeBrandt	MelindaMello	Document out for review.
PTCS	GFM items (40, 47, 48, 49, 50, 21, 22, 30, 25) from GbtFitsMonitorContinuumRequests	See GbtFitsMonitorContinuumRequests	RichardPrestage	AmyShelton	MarkClark	Improvements to Item 40 as a result of sponsor testing are being made in ashelton's sandbox. Items 22, 30, 47, 49, & 50 are sponsor tested and in gfm-test. Item 48 has been dropped for this cycle because it is not as important as once thought. Items 21 and 25 will not be completed this cycle.
PTCS	Serve as a consultant to Dana to advise him in the upgrade/refactoring of PTCS observing scripts	N/A	RichardPrestage	AmyShelton	MarkClark
PTCS	Create repository for PTCS software/scripts	N/A	RichardPrestage	AmyShelton	MarkClark	Bojan is not ready for this yet.
PTCS	Active Surface Manager Upgrades: (1) Calculate Zernike polynomials as a function of elevation, (2) Replace F. Schwab's Zernike calculation algorithm with Bojan's	ModificationRequest2C205?, ModificationRequest3C205?	RichardPrestage	AmyShelton	MelindaMello	This item was dropped.
SoftwareCME	Decouple LEDA from IF Manager. See IFManagerWorkOverview for more information.	N/A	NicoleRadziwill	MarkClark	AmyShelton
SoftwareCME	IF Manager does not list cabling file devices	PO#867	RonMaddalena	MarkClark	AmyShelton
SoftwareCME	IF Manager should not report errors for non-selected backends	PO#849	RichardPrestage	MarkClark	AmyShelton	started, but tabled for this cycle
SoftwareCME	Investigate cfitsio memory leak in SDFITS	SDFITSMemoryLeakInvestigationResults	NicoleRadziwill	MelindaMello	PaulMarganian	Completed Investigation SEE: SDFITSMemoryLeakInvestigationResults
SoftwareCME	Antenna should consider Beam C and 1 identical for single-beam receivers	ModificationRequest9C205	RonMaddalena	JoeBrandt	RamonCreager	Code and database changes on simulator. Testing.
SoftwareCME	Antenna should handle PF focus positions the same as for Gregorian.	ModificationRequest10C205	RonMaddalena	JoeBrandt	RamonCreager	I discussed this with Ron, and I think this task may be delayed.
SoftwareCME	Rate mismatch fault check in servo controller needs to detect number of motors faulted. (Lower priority)	ModificationRequest11C205	RichardPrestage	JoeBrandt	RamonCreager	Not started.
SoftwareCME	Add simplified Peak and Focus to Turtle	ModificationRequest4C205	KarenONeil	MarkClark	AmyShelton
SoftwareCME	Linux Migration according to project plan (DCR/LO1 over 2 cycles; vortex by mid April)	N/A	JohnFord	RamonCreager	JoeBrandt	The test DCR seems to work, but troubles with getting the right timing signals (1PPS and 10MHz with the correct relationship) has beem problematic. We resolved to install the test DCR in the equipment room and just use the site timing signals. DcrLinuxDesign
SoftwareCME	Grail support for coop student project	N/A	RonDuPlain	RamonCreager	RonDuPlain	Increased number of threads Grail can launch; added pre-allocated thread pool to service SOAP input
SoftwareCME	Ka Band configuration addition	ModificationRequest7C205	FrankGhigo	MelindaMello		Completed - patched in to 5.1
SoftwareCME	Go from mc version of aips++ to glish standalone	N/A	NicoleRadziwill	BobGarwood	???
SoftwareCME	Integration Tests	PerformIntegrationTests	MarkClark	RamonCreager	N/A	See SddCalendar for dates.

3. Background Tasks:

4. Tasks that will not be completed this cycle:

5. Future Things to Think About

• Regarding PO #867, "IF Manager does not list cabling file devices," the problem has been fixed for the prime focus splitters, but it is not clear how to handle the splitters for other receivers since they are actually part of the cabling. This needs to be revisited.