Core Minutes 8/27/2013

• ScienceTools: (Jim) There are two items worthy of mention:

  • Warit has been trying to reconcile the output of the EarthPhenom model with the flight data from the Earth limb. He found some inconsistencies between the simulation data produced by gtobssim and Gleam vs the flight data. I fixed the issue with gtobssim, but there were still some lingering differences that seemed to have their origin in how EarthPhenom computes the Earth azimuth angle and how the Earth limb emission is distributed as a function of that angle. Keith checked in some fixes to EarthPhenom that Warit tried to test, but ran in to a problem with the most recent GR build. Heather triggered a new build (HEAD-1509) that should address the problem Warit was having.
  • Jim has implemented changes in IRF handling requested by FSSC. They're committed and will be tagged later today. See the comprehensive discussion of this issue in Science Tools Development Notes.

• FSSC: (Joe) They've been testing the release Jim tagged and that is still in progress. So far, so good.

• New flavor: (Joanne) It has been decided that a new flavor name will unite all calibrations over the course of the mission intended to be used for standard reprocessing. Nothing needs to happen to the calibrations themselves, which, for data taken so far, already exist and have been entered in the calibration database, but they will need a new metadata entry with the new flavor name. Old entries will be untouched. I have written a little standalone program to make the process easier. We'll use it to make the new entries when Leon gets back from the Collaboration Meeting.

• Core talk:

  • New L1 GR (Heather)

    • There is a new candidate L1 GR GlastRelease-17-35-24-lp51, further testing is required and we hope this puppy will be ready to be deployed by Sept. 5th.

  • RM stuff (Heather)

  • RHEL-32 builds are now being handled by Jenkins. Currently it seems all the builds are assigned to bldlnx12 (the oldest and slowest box). We are hoping to get unix-admin to add bldlnx06 and bldlnx09, which will allow builds to go a bit faster.
  • The new Mac box is available - but not being actively used yet. Need to talk to Tom S. and test out logging in and setting this machine up with the appropriate external libraries.
  • Richard will be presenting the current OS status at the collaboration meeting this week. Interesting items include the need to validate RHEL6 and discontinue RHEL5-32 builds by the end of the year.

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