DMLT Meeting - 2020-12-14

Wil O'Mullane

Wil O'Mullane

1. Eclipse today (cloudy in Chile) and SPIE this week
   
   1. some (external) questions already to Sandrine on T&S paper (on SPIE slack)
      1. there is a channel per paper .. 1414 channels!
   2. virtual booth is up as well
      1. Noted that the systems asks for personal information in order to participate; may discourage use.
2. COVID-19 – holding onto status quo in Tucson and Chile
   
   1. Despite statistics in Chile: Return of restrictions is feared
   2. Arizona is not doing well but we are holding to minimal essential work identified
      1. There is now a curfew in Tucson, affecting Kitt Peak activities
3. Detail Critical Path Priorities (TMA, Camera, Refrigeration pathfinder) pivoting on TMA arrival in Jan.
   
   1. going as well as can be expected
      1. Dome now up to 5-6 panels/day installed
   2. next big one TMA team arrival (from Spain)  - but visa status is uncertain - Jeff a little uncertain about Jan 18th.
   3. Need updated high level (cartoon) schedule for AAS
      1. public interest at AAS will be in "first light" date
4. NSF non-productive labor flexibility
   
   1. All staff and all labor on productive work at this time
   2. Collecting data for request – just in case
5. Reminder: if you have issues with Deltek or Casnet or other CAS products please be sure to coordinate with Daniel
   
   1. req approval seems to be ok ..
   2. still missing some commissioning accounts for tucson test stand
   3. individual accounts (e.g. for travel) not functioning .. 
6. Updates :
   1. Vincent -
      1. refrigeration still shut down (upgrading) - still hoping to complete testing.
      2. Packing mass simulator.
      3. SLAC shut for 2 weeks (Rubin allowed to do some things as needed)
   2. Ranpal/jeff nice dome video on whatsapp from Juan Fabriga
7. No management meeting next two Mondays. (Many on vacation) use slack channel
   1. Proposing no DMLT meetings as well

RHL: Summit network is still down (now ~2 week outage).  Also seeing Summit-Base and Base-Santiago outages.

• Redundancy on Base-Santiago is not active yet.  Physical layer is in place but not yet connected to routers.
• Working on reviving the microwave backup link to the summit (sufficient for commands but not data).

Wil O'Mullane

Unknown User (gcomoretto)

• Release 21 ? -  SPIE this week and no Tim so cancel CCB?  use slack for any urgent issue  Next 2021 Jan 7 ?
  • GCB: yes, R21 has been announced

Tim Jenness

Frossie Economou

Test Plans due in the next 45 days

Milestones due in the next 45 days

Wil O'Mullane

• Risk dash board
• SDQA risk should move to Pipelines
  • Frossie Economou 18 Dec 2020 will do a bulk transfer of mitigations from John Swinbank to Yusra AlSayyad
• Some risk mitigation actions will need to get moved out into the future to match Science Pipelines development schedule
  • Frossie Economouwill work with Yusra AlSayyadto define which risk mitigations need to be moved into the future to match the pipelines development schedule 04 Jan 2021 

Risk items needing review

Overdue risks (obligation date passed)

Risk mitigations due at the end of this month

Overdue risk mitigations

End of year message to DM ?

• RHL: worried that the Commissioning Cluster will not be adequate to the processing load needed for full-focal-plane wavefront analyses; wants a registered risk for this
  
  • Discussion between RHL and KTL about adding low-latency computing capability at the USDF vs. building up the Commissioning Cluster as-is vs. combining CC and Diagnostic Cluster capabilties at the Summit
    • Move of CC to Summit is being considered in order to remove the last DDS/multicast client from the Base network
  • Discussion between RHL and WOM regarding the real latency requirement for this sort of processing
    • Robert Lupton will draft a new proposed risk in the Risk Register regarding the adequacy of on-summit computing, which will be submitted to Victor 04 Jan 2021 

Frossie Economou

Yusra AlSayyadquick check in on potential support for AOS

Discussion of:

• implementing AOS code as PipelineTask (basically now the clear plan); can DRP offer someone?
  • Nate Lust currently consulting with AOS to determine how much effort this would be; no commitment yet to provide the support; Wil O'Mullane open to helping out and will seek some transfer of funds to cover; discussion of which DRP and/or AP staff might be available for such an arrangements
• how to get AOS code under CI coverage and how to make it easy to run at NCSA or USDF; whether to include it in lsst_distrib
  • Frossie Economou : currently doing weekly test and container-image builds for T&S software; Wil: this doesn't help making it available at NCSA
  • Jim Bosch other interest from T&S may be coming; guider?  general access to data via Butler?
  • Conclusion: will definitely find a way to bring the PipelineTask part of the code under CI in Jenkins

SPIE this week