[Pafgbt] PAF/GBT progress report

[Brian Jeffs]

Rick,

Thanks for the update.  Good to hear of the progress.  Let us know when you get a better idea of feasible dates for the GBT deployment.

Brian

On Nov 16, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Rick Fisher wrote:

> 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
> 
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