ALMA SSR Committee

Phone Meeting 2001-06-06

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Minutes



  1. New Japanese participation
    After the management agreements in Tokyo early April and in Paris on May 10-11 the 3-way partnership gets implemented in the Software group. Koh-Ichiro has proposed a list of the new Japanese members, together with some statement of personal scientific interests (please refer to his email message) The e-mail list (alma-sw-ssr@nrao.edu) has been expanded by Brian, and I have updated our home page. For the time being, after consultation with Koh-Ichiro, we propose to keep our phone meetings at 15h UT; if our new members find it too difficult, they should not hesitate to ask for a change.

  2. Next Face to Face Meeting in Berkeley is scheduled for July 16/17. Mel Wright has send accommodation and travel information; please do the reservations quickly as this is a busy period!

  3. New Version of High Level Analysis document (J. Schwarz) The document was announced on May 28th, we have sed a June 11th deadline for comments by the SSR.
    It is really important that we follow the path that our requirements take towards implementation at various stages, and we will be asked to do so by reviweing other documents. This is obviously the first of these stages and, maybe, the most important. The document will be officially reviewed in July, so this is the last chance we have to propose changes that could be integrated prior to reviewing. Joe Schwarz has outlined the changes that have been made to the document, with respect to the version he had presented in March in Grenoble (see his e-mail message). Please send your comments to the list.

  4. Brief status report on the pipeline and off-line requirements work The work is on-going, a draft is expected to be circulated on the list within the next week or so. Comments will be made by e-mail, and we will discuss these in a phone meeting on June 27th (2001-06-27), and later at the Berkeley face-to-face meeting. Ken'ichi Tatematsu will join the small group working on the first draft.

  5. Other Issues Canadian software proposal:
    I communicated this proposal to the list a few days ago. It was actually submitted directly to ASAC and briefly discussed at the end of their last phone meeting. After this I sent a few comments, in agreement with Brian, Gianni and Koh-Ichiro. The point was that we believe that this should have followed the normal channels through the project: and be examined by the SSR, in order to ensure a consistent set of requirements, and be possibly included by the software group management into the general picture.
    Steve Scott made several comments during the meeting:
    On the first point Brian pointed out that the need for resources will vary between projects so that the approach we have taken in our requirements is less demanding on peak cpu processing power.
    In our requirements we have put more emphasis on a fast feedback to the scheduler based on the calibration results rather than on the final science images. This is less demanding on cpu since it is mostly handling continuum data, and it is easier to deal with calibration sources than with science target objects in an automatic way.
    Other comments to this document (on the science part, not the implementation of the distribution of tasks) should be sent to the list; I plan to synthesize them at the end of next week (2001-06-15) and send them to the heads of the software group.

  6. Next Phone Meeting
    is scheduled for June 27th at 15h UT.

Action Items:

  1. Comments on the new version of the analysis document to be sent to the list before 2001, June 11th
  2. First draft of the pipeline and off-line analysis requirements to be circulated: 2001, June 15th; the members of this team should discuss with Ken'ichi Tatematsu, about his proposed contribution.
  3. Comments on the Canadian proposal to be sent to the list before 2001, June 15th
  4. Make reservations for the meeting in Berkeley!

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