This page is to collect some notes about support of Mark6 in DiFX.

The following are available on trunk and are expected to be part of the DiFX 2.5 release

• vex2difx support of multiple datastreams per antenna
• vdifio recognizes native Mark6 format (VDIF with additional formatting for gather reconstruction
• vdifio can “gather” from mounted Mark6 module(s)
• mpifxcorr can directly correlate mounted Mark6 modules. Details will be added here shortly…
• mark6sg package including scatter/gather library and several utilities: mk6copy, m6sg_gather, m6sg_blocknrs, and fuseMk6
• mpifxcorr: pulse cal extraction assumption of nAntenna = nBaseline fixed
• mk5daemon: takes care of module mounting upon keyturn. Sends out multicast that can be digested e.g. by mk6mon
• mk6mon: like mk5mon displays messages received from the mk5daemons running on Mark6 machines.
• m6support: includes vdifuse and scan_check

• drive correlation based on module name(s) rather than scan file names

* some sort of auto-mounting mark6 daemon

• gui code, where applicable, needs to break assumptions of nAntenna = nBaseline

* mk5daemon / difxmessage support for Mark6 status monitoring (HR work in progress)