ALMA SSR Committee

Face to Face Meeting in Garching
2002-12-09 and 2002-12-13

IDR Meeting

SSR reviewers have provided number of comments to the many documents published in advance of the IDR (see document list in http://tinyurl.com/3m05 and comments and replies at http://tinyurl.com/38v2). A report for the whole IDR will be available soon.

SSR Meeting Notes


  1. DRUI Requirements
    We agreed that the DRUI is an interactive access to the pipeline functionality. Its purpose is to allow the users to reduce off-line their data, obtained through the standard observing modes of ALMA, by introducing variations of the parameters or the strategy, that has been used by the automatic pipeline data reduction.
    P. Schilke, the DRUI subsystem scientist will draft more precise requirements. These will be circulated through the SSR; the goal is to have them approved at the next meeting (January 15th).

  2. AIPS++ benchmarking AIPS++ benchmarking will be done by the Aips++ project side. The related SSR work will be coordinated by F. Viallefond. These include:
  3. Draft of metadata / ancillary data contents:
    This will be drafted by R. Lucas on the basis of the list already in the SSR report (memo 11), and circulated. The result will be compared with the contents of AIPS++ measurement set V2 and be used as input for discussions with the relevant subsystem leaders.

  4. Operational requirements
    At the IDR meeting it was proposed that the science operational requirement questions raised for software development are asked through the SSR to the Joint ALMA Office.

  5. SimLite
    It was agreed in the IDR discussion that the provision of a `simLite' simulator inside the OT would considerably simplify the implementation without significantly limiting the service provided to the user. The subsystem scientist (L. Testi) will prepare a description of this feature, in relation with the rest of the SSR and the off-line subsystem.

  6. Date of next phone meeting 2003, January 15th 15:00 UT to avoid conflict with the ASAC meeting on Jan 8th.

Action Items

  1. P. Schilke to draft DRUI requirements
  2. F. Viallefond to prepare definition of benchmarking data sets
  3. R. Lucas to draft meta-data contents.
  4. L. Testi to outline SimLite description.

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