Minutes for Telecon for Oct 09, 2002

Present: Churchwell, Benjamin, Meade, Indebetouw, Dickey,
Babler, Clemens, Whitney, Wolfire, Watson, Marston, Wolff,
Stolovy, Cohen

Next telecon: *Wednesday* Oct 23, 2002, 11 am CDT, 608-265-1000 #4112

Budget				Ed

  Ed got budget numbers late last week.  
  All institutions except the UW will stay the same until the end of 
  year.  UW - probably OK.  Not having a fall team meeting will save $$.
  Ed got the budgets for the next 3 years.  We will have reduced budgets for
  the first 9 months of 2003 - a 13.4% reduction.  We will get a return of 
  the 13.4% later.

Telecon with SSC 		Ed

  The telecon has been set up with SSC for Oct 30 to discuss C&R.

Bandmerger problems and possible work arounds	Remy

  The bandmerger has some problems.  We have written lots of programs
  which call the bandmerger many times.  We need to be able to merge
  several tens of bands.  Still running into software bugs.  The SSC
  bandmerger crashes occasionally.  Remy has "fixed" some of the bugs.
  There are 3000-4000 lines of code in the SSC bandmerger.  Problems 
  occur more frequently at 6-7 bands.  So Remy re-wrote our software to
  do 4 bands at a time.  SSC says they know it has problems but they won't
  be able to work on it until November. November is the Operational 
  Flight Readiness Review and the Post-BCD products are not part of
  this review.  Tony will look into this more. Tony has allocated one
  more person on his team to learn about the post-BCD software.
  Is a quick fix possible? Remy sent test files to Dave
  Shupe at SSC.. 2 sets of data - one case produces erroneous data (not doing
  duplicate pointings right) and one case that bombs.

Progress on the Pipeline	Barb & Marilyn

  Mosaicing .. new version of Montage works on Linux and they fixed a 
   bug with the cylindrical projections.
  We are continuing to work on the bandmerge software and will start 
  putting these processes in the pipeline.  

  We will need information on banding as early as possible.  We may need
  a larger overlap if a stripe in band 4 is a problem.
  Flagging stray light is not an automatic check.  The QLVT may be used
  to mark the problem data.  Bright sources off a corner of the camera
  may cause stray light. The new SPOT will show where the bright spot has
  to be to cause the stray light.  Their own Quality Analysis will/hopes to
  flag these areas in a table file, not a mask file.  We could check the
  table and if necessary, throw the data into the QLVT.

Progress on the QVLT		Mark

  A new version is out for our inspection.

Hardware
  2 more processors have been ordered and 1 more RAID array 
  ordered.  We have money to order more hardware. We may get larger
  RAID arrays at the same price at the end of the year.

Schedule for document release	Ed

  Want to release the 2 documents by the end of the month.  Please send
  comments to John M ASAP.

Other issues

  AAS - Bob & Remy will work on a GLIMPSE poster for the Seattle AAS meeting.

  Calibrators - Martin says he has enough calibrators for the 55-65 deg
     area.  He hasn't had time to look at the WIYN data yet but Art Code
     has agreed to.