difx:difx-todolist-2010
High Priority
- Cluster configuration file standard definition
- Adapting various clients (genmachines / threads) to make use of cluster definition file
- Add large (~1 TB) dataset with variety of modes on Data Fabric (CR)
- Regression testing scripts
Benchmark testing scripts
VDIF multiple thread support (AD,CP)- Make general version of NRAO Monitoring GUI (HR)
Update DB schema (HR)Add database abstraction layer (HR)generalize difxqueue / difxdaemon /difxarch
Geodetic verificationBug tracking/ feature request systemrefactoring difxcalculator, vex2difx, dif2fits, difx2mark4 → difxio- Choose framework for unit testing. Implement test cases (JM)
Add support for processing multiple scans to difx2mark4Add package config files for IPP5,6,7, and transition setup script to make use of these
Medium Priority
- Add DiFX diagnostics
- Documentation
- Doxygen of mpifxcorr source
Difx Users guide → svn and wiki- Documentation of mpifxcorr internals (buffers etc.)
benchmarking scripts / strategies
- Documentation Algorithms
- 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)
- vex2difx to create an input file setup to be used with vlbi_fake
- Synchronize data fabric test datasets at several sites. (Bonn, Curtin, NRAO)
- Maintain database of benchmarking results (JM)
- Phased array (RS, CR).
- visplot (Aquib)
- Investigate sampler stats monitoring (AD/WB/CP)
- subband distribution/parallelisation (with VDIF) (AD/CP)
- replumbing/refactoring vex2difx setup
- 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)
- Standard way of setting up environment (JM)
- Have different environments for building and operation (GC)
Low Priority
- cleanup of DiFX error messages
- Single process multi-threaded non-mpi program for DiFX-specific CPU benchmarking.
- Future proofing via non-prescriptive format (AD)
- K5 format support (CP)
- Space VLBI
- Orbit model
- Baseline dependent averaging
- eVLBI gui
Tsys determination- IPP alternatives
- Generic startup scripts (CR)
- Documentation of startup philosophy
- Shifted FT (moving channel boundary to edge of band) (AD)
DiFX2fits uv shifting in trunk (JM/AD)- Migrating to python3.0 (ensure current compatibility with python2.6) (everyone)
- Add support for crosscorrelation of non matching sample rates
- Support for zoom band in vex2difx, difx2fits, difxio (WB)
- SVN cleanup
SVN vendor branch- Auditing / refactoring the amplitude scaling
- pulsar predictor support in “polyco”
- Get rid of printing to screen in mark5access (change to be called and printed from elsewhere)
- Get Eric to improve AIPS PCAL (multi tone)
- Improve the runtime predictor (make better use of the new cluster configuration file, better estimate true load)
- Review DiFX installation (SCONS, autotools etc.) (JM)
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