[asac] [Fwd: [Alma-naasc] ALMA Offline testing]

Thu Jul 14 03:27:38 EDT 2005

All,

I reckon the ASAC meeting in October will be pretty full, considering
antenna contracts and rebaselining.  But is there any desire to get
an update from the software/AIPS++ folks?  Seems like they are making
progress, but if we want to hear from them, we need to inform them.

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Subject: [Alma-naasc] ALMA Offline testing
From:    "John Hibbard" <jhibbard at nrao.edu>
Date:    Wed, July 13, 2005 2:16 pm
To:      alma-naasc at donar.cv.nrao.edu
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FYI.<br>
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-john<br>
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<font size="+1"><tt>Debra Shepherd wrote:
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Many of you have expressed an interest over the past few years about the
status of the Astronomical Information and Processing System
(AIPS++) software development for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array
(ALMA) project.  I promised at various meetings and in many individual
conversations to send out an update about how our software testing is
going - so here it is.

As you know, ALMA has conducted external user tests every 6 months for the
past 1.5 years to ensure that the software development is adequate for
ALMA needs.  To date, 3 test cycles have been successfully
completed.  The focus has been: 1) single field interferometry; 2) mosaic
interferometry; and 3) combining single dish and synthesis
data.  Recently I wrote up a brief summary of our testing status and put
this on the ALMA Computing IPT Usertests web page.

Please note, the software is NOT ready for the general user yet - and this
is not an invitation to download the software and start playing with it
because it is continually being modified during this very
active development period.  When we are ready for a wider user base I will
send out another update.  Please let me know if you do not wish to be
included in future e-mail test announcments.

If you would like to review the summary and obtain links to the
detailed test reports and testing web sites, please see

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://almasw.hq.eso.org/almasw/pub/Usertests/WebHome/test.summary.jul05.pdf">http://almasw.hq.eso.org/almasw/pub/Usertests/WebHome/test.summary.jul05.pdf</a>

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,

Debra Shepherd
ALMA Offline Subsystem Scientist
NRAO, ALMA Computing IPT
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:dshepher at nrao.edu">dshepher at nrao.edu</a> </tt></font></pre>
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