LSST Simulation Framework

Meetings and Workshops

• Simulation Weekly Meetings
• Lightning Talks
• 2014 All Hands Meeting
• A brief introduction to git and Stash

Development Plans

• Fall 2014
• Spring 2015

Catalog Simulations

• Documentation and Instructions
• Design Reviews
• Slalib Replacement

Photon Simulations

• Photon Simulator (PhoSim)
• ImSim Dry Run (July 23-24, 2013, Purdue)

Night Sky Brightness

• Sky brightness observations
• Cerro Pachon All-Sky Camera Project

Photometric Calibration

• Calibration Team Home
• Recovering atmospheric parameters from stellar magnitudes

Operations Simulations

• Project
  • OpSim Weekly Meetings
  • OpSim Scope of Work & Planning Docs
• Scheduler
  • Scheduler & OpSim development
• Simulator (most recent items at top)
  • OpSim v3 Interface Documentation
  • OpSim v3.2 - Details of Release
  • OpSim v3.3 - Database Agnostic Implementation
  • Assessment of OpSim machines (MAF)
  • MySQL vs sqlite (1 year OpSim profile run)
  • OpSim profile stats for 10 year run
  • Simulator Output Format & Content led to the following discussion Discussion about scope for database regularization for OpSim
  • OpSim Database Architecture
  • OpSim Documentation - Sphinx
• Cadence Studies
  • Cadence Workshop Simulated Surveys
  • Tier 1 Overview
  • New Reference Run - Change Control Board Package
  • Rolling Cadence
  • HPC (SLAC) cluster tests for OpSim
• Metrics Analysis Framework (MAF) 
  • Entrance to official documentation: MAF documentation
  • MAF Tutorials for Cadence Workshop
  • MAF Cadence Metrics
  • Other MAF pages
  • Metric Analysis Framework, Design Review
  • Using MAF: Zeljko's notes
  • Next Steps for MAF development (Fall 2014)
  • Replicating the SSTAR Standard Report in MAF (Requirements)
• Completed Projects
  • OpSim Technical Review - Feb 2014
  • Archiving Data from opsimX Machines - Apr 2014
  • OpSim Tucson's Multi-user Environment - Apr 2014
  • Users Workshop, Seattle, WA - Nov 17-21, 2014 - Nov 2014
  • Unified JIRA Workflow Proposal - Jan 2015

Install instructions

• Catalogs and MAF

Integrated System Simulations

• Image Performance Evaluation
• System Perturbations
• Integrated System Parameter Database