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Meeting ID: 5404

Chair: Tasso Tzioumis

Attendance: Shinji Horiuchi (SDCCC, Canberra);Claire Hotan, Aquib Moin, Cormac Reynolds, Hayley Bignall (Curtin); Tasso Tzioumis, Chris Phillips, Ettore Carretti (ATNF Marsfield); Phil Edwards, Jamie Stevens (ATNF, Narrabri); Brett Reid, Jamie McCallum (UTas, Mt Pleasant), Jim Lovell(UTas,Hobart); Richard Dodson, Maria Rioja (UWA)

Apologies: Steven Tingay

Agenda

• Next Observations in September 2009
  • General issues (Tzioumis/Phillips/Edwards)
  • Schedules (Edwards/C.Reynolds)
  • Support (Tzioumis)
  • Disks (Claire)
  • Mk5 disks (Chris/Tasso)
  • Transfers (Claire/Hayley/Chris)
  • Any other issues

• Review of Actions from last meeting

• REPORTS/UPDATES
• Curtin cluster at Narrabri (Phillips)
• VLBI tests with GMRT (Tasso)
• eVLBI demo with Brazil

• Feb 2010 VLBI meetings
  • IVS meeting in Hobart (Lovell)
  • Astro meetings in NZ (Tingay)
  • LBA ops/eVLBI mtg?
• Update on New Zealand antenna (Gulyaev)
• AuScope Update (Lovell)

• AOB

Actions arising

(new items in blue)

GENERAL

• Scheduling issues
  • Link to schedule to be put in Wiki (Cormac)
  • vt11u to be mainly 8.4 GHz to match IVS observing at Parkes/Ceduna (Chris/Phil)
  • GMRT test to be included in schedule as vt13 (Phil)
    • L-band GMRT test may include ATCA (Tasso) and Hobart (Brett)

• SCHED - new version for LBA
  • Version already on ATNF website. New schedules under new version.
  • Need to check drudge of new VEX files
    • Cormac to provide test files from new schedules.
    • Hobart/Ceduna to be checked by Brett
    • Tid to be checked by Shinji

• Disks
  • Reboot Ceduna computers + disks (UTas)
  • Reformat disks to xfs (Jamie/Chris)
  • Rebuilt XRAIDs when slow disks are included (Chris)

• Data Transfers
  • Coordinate Parkes transfers with pulsar observers/group (Ettore)
  • Suggest TCP transfers from Parkes.

• New cdisko version
  • available from Jamie.
  • to be checked at Mopra at installed at ATNF (Chris)
  • size of scrolling log to be limited (Jamie)
  • feed cdisko questions/requests during session to Jamie at Narrabri.

• Support
  • Parkes: Shaun, John, Megan, Ettore
  • ATCA/Mopra: Chris (DA), Jamie, Phil, Tasso (from Geneva)
  • Ceduna: Was to be remote. BUT Brett and Jamie M. will go to Ceduna.
  • Hobart: UTas personnel.
  • Tid: Shinji and Tid crews.

• Ceduna phase stability issues to be addressed (UTas)

• Next telecon: 9 October 2009, 2 pm Sydney time (Tasso/Chris/Cormac)