[alma-config]ALMA Final Design
John Conway
jconway at oso.chalmers.se
Tue Feb 26 05:25:39 EST 2002
Hi
It is clear that there is a lot of effort required on quite a short
timescale to meet the timeline for ALMA configurations outlined in the
CDR report (compact configuraton by ALMA week at end of April and
the rest of the design by September).
On the other hand most of the ideas and constraints and software are in
place - due to the combined efforts of all of us over the last few years.
All the elements are there, the final step is to integrate everything
togther to produce a final design. In doing this we will have to
be pragmatic - this is an engineering problem as much (if not more
so) than a scientfic one.
I see my main role as coordinating the effort to produce the final
design. Namely ..
1) To ensure that all the elements of the array design - compact,
intermediate and large are integrated into one coherent plan.
2) To make sure that the final design is consistent with the
PDR and CDR recomendations.
3) Act as the contact person for engineering and site development
in deterimining the interaction/interfaces with other parts of the
project- including the important interfaces of transporter design and
roads and services.
4) Maintain the configuration documentation (including the
Configuration chapter of the ALMA book which has not been
updated for a while).
-- I plan today or tomorrow - to individually phone all those who are
active in the configuration design process to discuss in which role they
can contribute to making the final design --
Yours
John
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