upgrading and testing software/computers (Dave, Megan)

stateside simulation

• need...
  • indexer (ALL TESTED)
  • Mac quadra of S. Pole vintage (ALL TESTED)
    • Bob needs to show us how to set a flag so that we can run software even w/o a DSP card in the mac.
  • Linux box like one at Pole (ALL TESTED)
  • PC of S. Pole vintage running windows & lab-view (NEED NETWORK CARD)
    • same versions as at Pole.
    • Matt could determine which versions used
    • if we are lucky we will avoid needing to buy the I/O cards, but we can afford these if necc. (ON ORDER)
  • serial cable and fix used at Pole
    • details of serial communications (see ~griffin web page)
      • make sure that we did actually talk over long serial line in early '02 (WE DID)
      • determine how the problem was solved (shorting handshaking lines) (DOCUMENTED)
      • is serial extended needed or did we show in early '02 that we don't need one? (WE DONT NEED ONE)
      • to test indexer: send space, CR, and get # back.
• if time permits integrate camera for viewing tertiary into system
  • note that Greg had it set up so JPEGs are saved with data

SPARO data system

• hardware:
  • test a/d system for heat damage (LIGHT WAS COMING OUT OF FIBER AND MATT RAN DATA SYSTEM; WE SHOULD ASK HIM IF STRIP CHART WAS GOING)
    • can be done by Bill/Jeff/Matt/Paolo
    • need only Mac, plugged to fibers, chop in->chop out
    • do i have records as far as what noise looks like?
    • could even put in a signal with some effort
  • evaluate status of Mac internal disks and backup disks - buy more (ONE OF THE SPARES DID NOT APPEAR WHEN PLUGGED INTO ONE OF THE HEATER MACS - COULD HAVE BEEN THE MAC NOT THE DISK THAT WAS AT FAULT. DAVE WILL GET MORE OR WE CANNIBALIZE STUFF AT POLE AND AT NU)
    • drives and silo separate.
    • (5400 RPM? / 8 Gig?)
    • must be SCSI
• software:
  • is latest version of SPARO code on both? where in US?

SPARO data analysis

• matlab license - renew it (MEGAN)
• do inventory of all code used (Dave's and Chris' and back it up and install stateside and test it all out)

preparing for tcl scripting (GREG IS IN CHARGE):

• back up Chris Greer's versions of control script
  • review notes made at Pole (see logbook, and software folder)
  • Greer's versions were backed up, but where
  • did matt write over any stuff that SPARO uses? see directory structure in notes made at Pole
• someone who is going to Pole, or who will be working hard stateside in Jan/Feb, should learn tcl scripts for SPARO (GREG)
• determine if SPARO photometry scripts used in late 2001 will still work; make changes if needed; write polarimetry scripts (GREG)
• test SPARO photometry and polarimetry scripts (GREG)

pointing model

• learn about ACBAR pointing model (DAVE)
• incorporate this into SPARO scripts (DAVE/GREG)
• develop plan for finding centroids (gaussfit?) (GREG)

web site:

• get permission to have a SPARO web site at Pole (GILES)
• develop mirroring between Pole and U.S. Web pages (GREG)
• keep both Web sites up to date as new info develops (MEGAN; GILES)