Joint Agency Quarterly progress meeting, 5 hours Tuesday April 28.
- few slides on progress in last quarter.
- How to get restarted.
- Was to be in Chile to show progress.
- More now on how to re baseline.
- Data Facility and ops review have been distracting the agencies.
Ops review - clearly dependent on re-baseline.
- Mentioned that DF and schedule made the committee feel a bit lost since the review was still of a proposal.
- Chuck mentions non labor such as spares especially high cost items. Also suggestion to buy spares now while Peso is favorable. Fairly positive in general not many significant actions.
- Zeljko points out that 2/3 of ops team come from construction but not everyone is aware. Bob, Amanda and Victor will talk about how to make this better know to people in the project.
Ranpal:
- Logo development plan meeting today with Victor + others. Survey to go out to everyone.
- Detector engineering NOIRLab workshop last week — we were unaware and no one from the project attended. There will be more will try to make sure people are notified of similar meetings in future.
- Spain shutdown to May 9th; new visa appointments for Wil & Ranpal on June 24 (was May 8).
Victor mentions that at least one L2 NOIRLab manager will come from Rubin in the next week or two. These are all AURA internal.
Zeljko:
- WFIRST cover all of WFD giving 7th band - paper suggests this would boost LSST merit by 2.4
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04702
Chuck Claver, Kevin Reil:
- ComCam is taking images (no filter changer yet; needs another lift)
Jeff Barr:
- Will try to do some work during next visit to the summit (electrical and casino).
- Louver fabrication contract setup - some industrial capability starting up in Italy (and Spain).
- Dome software advancing well - software is progressing in lock down.
- No idea when restrictions will be lifted in Chile.
Vincent Riot:
- Possibly close out Camera project and move money to commissioning. Camera project at risk in MIE due to Covid-19 (due to reporting).
- SLAC talking about getting back to work - Masks etc, 3 - 6 months . LSSTCam is considered critical so will be allowed back as early as possible.
Chuck Gessner:
- Back to work in Tucson potentially end of month (if state restrictions lifted). Tohono O'odham Nation extended lockdown to June 4.
- We note there are obvious problems with this when schools are closed.
- From the DM perspective, there will be no rush back to work until everything is safe.
- Usual few issues escalated.
- Successfully completed!
- Thanks to everybody who participated.
- Recommendations for Data Production:
Strongly pursue resolution of the location of the operations phase US DF. This decision lies in the critical path for Data Production, and critical decisions and risk mitigation cannot proceed without this decision.
Develop a detailed schedule and cost impact estimate for the projected (April 2021) delay in the resolution of the US DF. Provide guidance for possibility of additional 6 month delay.
Develop a plan for start of Data Production with the currently projected delays due Covid-19, and potential construction project re-baselining. This plan should include schedule and cost impact estimates for an additional 6 month delay beyond the current projected baseline.
Expand staffing level validations to include additional comparisons data production projects of similar size.
Re-evaluate staffing levels in the Middleware and Algorithms teams for the second half of the survey and consider maintaining these teams at full strengths.
Develop strategies to retain expertise from the construction project as personnel funding shifts from NSF to DOE
Increase the sophistication of the storage and compute sizing models by including projected evolution of the processing power, decreased processing core costs, and evolution of algorithm sophistication. Potential models for investigating these trends can include historical trends observed over decade-long data production projects (Gaia, FERMI, LHC etc).
- Recommendations for System Performance:
Consider strengthening the Verification and Validation team by the addition of a software engineer who would work on incorporating state-of-the-art techniques (e.g. machine learning) for a software solution that enables quick diagnosis of problems and scales well with time and data. [Report on this by October 2020]
Consider the addition of 1-2 additional FTE within the Community Engagement Team (CET) given its broad scope and for better coverage of the science goals. The success of the Community Engagement Team is key for maximizing the publication of scientific results on the four Rubin pillars as well as for uncovering potentially new territory. [Report on this by October 2020]
- There was no mention of cybersecurity at this review (cf Director's Review, a few weeks ago).
- There was some confusion in science collaborations about requests that went out from Bob/PST/someone about cybersecurity. But “no long term harm done”.
- In 3 weeks.
- Please add topics to the suggestion box by this time next week.
- Suggestion to spread over more days for smaller time per day.
Test Plans due in the next 45 days
Milestones due in the next 45 days
LDM-503-06 — Michelle looking to see if this is something that could be done in with ComCam at the Base.
- Unknown User (mbutler) — check whether LDM-503-06 can be completed with ComCam at the Base.
- Next Risk Review Board meeting on 29 April.
- Risk dash board
- Risk items needing review
- Overdue Risk Actions
- Risk Actions due end of month
- Wil O'Mullane, Fritz Mueller , John Swinbank — review risk items.
- SPIE news will be forthcoming.
- Wil O'Mullane , Tim Jenness , and Frossie Economou on red team review of TMT/GMT NOIRLab proposal
