LBA Ops and technical meeting, 17-18 Feb 2015, the Meeting Room in the Training Building, CDSCC, Tidbinbilla, ACT
Tuesday 17 Feb 2015
8:15-8:30 Coffee and tea
| 8:30-8:35 | Introduction | Ed & Shinji |
| 8:35-8:45 | Access to Tid and need for fast network | Ed |
| 8:45-9:15 | LBA Proposals and block scheduling | Phil |
| 9:15-9:30 | LBA Schedules | Cormac |
| 9:30-10:00 | Telescope Reports | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Observing Issues | Chris |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Correlation | Cormac |
| 11:45-12:15 | PI Support | Chris |
| 12:15-12:30 | Access to Tid | Phil |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30-1:45 | Radioastron Science | Dave |
| 1:45-3:00 | Improving the LBA | Chris |
| 3:00-3:30 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 3:30-4:30 | Review of action items and general discussion |
- Welcome, Introductions and Housekeeping (Shinji, Ed, Chris) 5min
- Access to Tid and need for fast networking (Ed) 10min
- LBA proposals and block scheduling (Phil Edwards) 30min
- call for proposals
- proposal stats
- OPAL
- LBA+EVN scheduling?
- LBA schedules (Cormac Reynolds) 15min
- Telescope reports/issues (30min)
- ATNF (JamieS, Chris)
- Tid (Shinji)
- UTAS including AuScope (JamieMc, Jim)
- AUT including 30m developments (StuartW) warkworth2015.pdf Δ
- Observing issues (Chris) 30min
- Data transport
- Real-time-fringe-checking (RTFC)
- Radioastron observations
- support for Radioastron observing and data transfer
- PI supported observing
- Auscope and Ww issues
- Access to Pawsey facilities
- Morning Tea
- Correlation (Cormac Reynolds) 30min
- DIFX developments
- mixed mode/bandwidth correlation
- Pipeline and data checking
- Data distribution
- Online archive
- "mixed mode" observations
- Porting DIFX to Galaxy
- PI Support (Chris) 30min
- Planning
- Scheduling
- Calibration
- Improved Access to Tid (Phil) 30min
- Lunch
- Radioastron science (Dave) 15min
- Improving LBA (Chris) 60min
- Afternoon Tea
- Review of action items and general discussion
17:00 - 22:00 Dinner
Wednesday 18 Feb 2015
8:15-8:30 Coffee and tea
| 8:30-9:00 | AARNet Report | Tim Rayner |
| 9:00-9:30 | NRN 10 Gbps upgrade | Alfred |
| 9:30-10:00 | Tid Network Upgrade | John remotely |
| 10:00-10:30 | LBA Technical developments | Chris |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea | |
| 11:00-11:30 | IM&T Resources | John Morrissey |
| 11:30-12:00 | Future eVLBI | Chris |
| 12:00-12:30 | Review of actions and general discussion |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch | |
1:30pm-3pm closed meeting to discuss UTAS LBA contract
- AARNet report (30 mins) (Tim Rayner)
- NRN 10 Gbps upgrade (30min) (Alfred)
- Tid network upgrade (30min)
- Technical developments (Chris Phillips) (30min)
- DAS systems
- Recorders
- Disk systems
- Xcube
- Morning Tea
- Available IM&T resources (30min)
- Review of available resources (John Morrissey)
- Future eVLBI (30min)
- Review of actions and General discussion
- Lunch
