Phone:

Meeting ID: 0530

Present:
UTas: Jim (Chair), John D.
Curtin: Aiden, Hayley, Cormac, Claire, Aquib
ATNF: Tasso, Chris
UWA: Richard, Maria
Mt Stromlo: Shinji, Dave
NZ: Sergei, Tim

Agenda

• Review of Actions from last meeting

• Reports/feedback from November VLBI session
  • Parkes (Tasso, Shaun, Ben, John)
  • ATCA & Mopra (Chris, Richard, Maria)
  • Ceduna (Jamie & Jamie)
  • Hobart (Brett et al.)
  • Tidbinbilla (Shinji)
• eVLBI tests to Curtin (<1 Gbps and >1 Gbps) (Phillips/Tingay)
• e-VLBI demo to Curtin (Tzioumis/Tingay)
• LBA operations/eVLBI/Networking meeting (Tzioumis/Tingay)
• ASKAP VLBI Expression of Interest (Tingay)
• Update on New Zealand antenna (Gulyaev)
• Update on Curtin cluster at Narrabri (Phillips/Amy)
• AuScope Update (Lovell)
• AOB

Actions arising

(new items in blue)

• One of Curtin Mark5B+ units to be shipped to AUT when they arrive, plus an invoice to AUT. (Steven)
• Swinburne archive of correlated VLBI data to be moved to ATNF & Curtin at end of all Swinburne correlation (Steven/Claire)

• Options for disks and data transport:
  • Buying excess disks from Swinburne VLBI pool and/or Mk5 disks. (Tasso/Steven)
  • Initiate discussion on next generation VLBI systems and disks (Mk5b/Mk5c/of-the-self) for the March LBA meeting. (Tasso/Steven)
  • Setup some tests to see if IVEC transfer will work, look at viability, timescales, data rates (Chris/Claire)
• List on the Wiki available bands/polarisations at each LBA antenna. Also update “standard bands” (from S2) and define “standard” bands for wide-band recording. (Cormac/Tasso)
• Test 10 Gbps from IVEC into Curtin cluster (Steven/Cormac/Chris)

• March LBA meeting and eVLBI demo preparations:
  • Tasso to prepare a 'block schedule' for the meeting and seek comment (Tasso)

• Block schedule next year should avoid Nov/Dec if possible: it's too windy (Phil)
• Provide additional advice to PIs on scheduling the ATCA to keep it phased up at 8 GHz and above (Tasso)
• Some of the new 750 GB disks appear to have bigbuf problems at 512 Mbps. Claire to send Jim some disks for an out-of-session test at Hobart (Claire/Jim)
• Capacity calculations need fixing in cDisko (actually recorder_server) (Jamie S)
• Curtin Cluster at Narrabri: wo would like to get the cluster up once the network is installed. Action on Tasso and Shaun to get the networking going as soon as possible (Tasso/Shaun)

• Next telecon: Wed Jan 28 2009, 2pm Sydney time (Tasso/Chris)