difx:difx-todolist-2009
To Do List from Perth Meeting, September 2009
High Priority
phase cal extraction (nearly done) (Bonn)DiFX to HOPS converter (HR,JM,RO)- Regression/benchmark testing scripts
- Mk5C/VDIF support (AD,CP)
VEX review (WB et al.)MPIFxCORR to alert whether difxmessage is being used (AD)calcserver running on a 32 bit VM (CR)- Migrating to python3.0 (ensure current compatibility with python2.6) (everyone)
Commenting in setup.bash about IPP library mess. (AD)- DiFX2fits uv shifting in trunk (JM/AD)
Medium Priority
DiFX internal buffer monitoring (difxmessage sends about once per second or so) (AD)done in DiFX2.0 only“Neutered” version of DiFX (runtime? compile time?) that does no processing at the Core (AD)done in DiFX2.0 onlyMonitoring at the FxManager of how many subints have arrived from each Core, difxmessage that every integration (AD)done in DiFX2.0 only- Documentation Algorithms
SWIN format (channel ordering) (AD)see http://cira.ivec.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/difx/files, at the bottomNchannel+1 issue (AD)see http://cira.ivec.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/difx/channelisation- parameter optimisation (AD)
- monitoring, etc - (list of error codes) (AD)
- setting up native Mark5 access (WB+)
- evlbi
- reconnection/long term drop-outs (CP)
- real-time delay/rate adjustment (CP)
- FITS converter
Deal with complicated configurations in a more optimal way (WB)
Input file parse errors to be returned only from the master node (AD)(Done in DiFX2.0 only)- Test datasets:
- Add large (~1 TB) dataset with variety of modes (NRAO)
- Mirror at several sites. (Bonn, Curtin, NRAO)
- Maintain database of benchmarking results (JM)
Bug fix: last integrations have less than 100% weight (early core shutdown) (AD)Fixed in DiFX2.0?- Phased array (RS, CR).
Input file:Done (in DiFX2.0 only obviously)Phased array (AD)phasecal specifications (AD)
- Benchmarking scripts (CP,JM,CZ)
- Auto machine/thread file creation - genmachines (CR)
Improvements to errormon filtering (HR)- Explore general version of NRAO Monitoring GUI (HR)
Rationalize setup.bash (remove NRAO specifics) (CP)Done - ATD- visplot (Aquib)
- Investigate sampler stats monitoring (AD/WB/CP)
- subband distribution/parallelisation (with VDIF) (AD/CP)
- Play back from both Mk5 banks in parallel (WB)
- Transition to using band centres instead of band edges (WB)
- Baseband data generator for producting test datasets. (WB)
- Parallelised calc server
- Store polynomial tau(l, m) generalized delay model in FITS (WB,JM)
Low Priority
- Single process multi-threaded non-mpi program for DiFX-specific CPU benchmarking.
- Future proofing via non-prescriptive format (AD)
- K5 format support
- Space VLBI
- Orbit model
- Baseline dependent averaging
- eVLBI gui
- Tsys determination
Compare infiniband and 1G-E performance (HR, CP)- IPP alternatives
- Generic startup scripts (CR)
- Documentation of startup philosophy
- Shifted FT (moving channel boundary to edge of band) (AD)
RFI mitigation in correlator (AD)
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