Meetings/2010-12-15

This meeting is to round off the year 2010.

Agenda

Task development

Progress on eg. WCS compliance, convenience tasks, RPFITS file changes

Project Review

Report by project manager.

Future of Miriad

There has been a recent meeting of "Miriad future directions panel", regarding a possible move towards CASA for certain reduction processes. We will discuss current outcomes from that.

AOB

Anything else of note.

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Minutes

• WCS changes were summarised by Mark C.
  • 5 stages, the first two of which are complete
  • now possible to regrid images to non-parameterised projections
  • work is continuing on parameterised projections, spectral coordinates and visualisation task changes
• Mark C. has been working on RPFITS format changes to allow more sources
• Mark W. has altered ATLOD to read in on-the-fly mosaics, and record the direction of travel
  • primary beam models have also been changed to allow for correction of OTF mosaic smeared beams
• Vince has recently written his project review document, and is currently with Mark B. for comments
  • CABB changes for Miriad are mostly finished, and now maintenance is the most common Miriad activity
  • some more changes may come out of the upcoming "future of Miriad" review
• the kaputar 'miriad-cabb' installation should be removed
• Mark W. summarised the "future of Miriad" terms-of-reference meeting
  • we now have an idea on what to discuss
  • need lists of data reduction problems to proceed
  • parallelisation of Miriad code was discussed
• Vince has filed a Miriad bug
  • Mike K. was unable to build against Miriad on a 64-bit Mac OSX install
  • will eventually add darwin64 installation target

Participants

• Jamie Stevens
• Mark Wieringa
• Mark Calabretta
• Vince Mcintyre
• Phil Edwards

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