[Pafgbt] PAF/GBT progress report

[Rick Fisher]

PAF/GBT progress report:

Bob Simon has been looking at the progress of work in the Green Bank shop 
that's required to put the PAF on the GBT for the first time, and it's 
clear that a GBT run in January is too optimistic.  Because of the recent 
RIF and operational priorities the shop is overloaded.  I'll work with 
Toney Minter, the GBT scheduler, to see how much notice he needs for 
getting the PAF on the GBT next quarter.

There is progress, however.  Bob has added quite a bit of material to the 
wiki page:

https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/Main/PafDevelop

Paul has completed tests of the GBT Monitor and Control code for driving 
the PAF receiver and old ADLink data acquisition system.  We're in the 
process of writing a new Modification Request (MR) to incorporate the new 
BYU FFT/Correlator back-end into GBT M&C.

I'm continuing to work on PAF data processing and monitoring software for 
the old ADLink system, including another documentation web page:

http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~rfisher/ArrayFeed/adlink_monitor.html

Our Linux computer 'paf0' that hosts the big storage disks for this 
project had a motherboard failure a few month's back, and it's been a 
tough slog getting this ancient hardware repaired, but there's renewed 
hope.  Thanks to the guys in Green Bank for pushing this along.

Any progress you'd like to report on this project will be much 
appreciated, either as an email to pafgbt at nrao.edu or/and a wiki page 
addition.

Rick