[Comm2011] Fwd: Re: Evalso-light

[Edwin A. Valentijn]

Hi Ewout

I agree
Edwin

On 25-3-2011 3:30, helmich wrote:
> Yesterday Olaf said he requires the full day today to connect the
> detectors. Olaf, Bernard and Christoph are working on it now. Maybe Olaf's
> estimate is conservative. Koen will arrive today, probably 2 hrs from now.
>
> Since we are a day behind schedule it is likely something must change.
> Bernard suggests we wait to see how things go the next 2 days/nights before
> deciding anything about that, but he did ask how badly we need the whole
> night the last night for PSF anisotropy. I think we do not, and that it
> potentially could even move to OCM1B. We're here first and foremost for the
> tilt after all.
>
> Since my return flight to Amsterdam is actually with a day to spare, I
> could stay another day on Paranal as well.
>
> Ewout
>
>
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:06:58 +0100, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn
> <verdoes at astro.rug.nl>  wrote:
>> Hi Ewout,
>>
>> Very good to hear evalso testing has begun. Seems if Paranal and
>> Garching adhere to the filenaming convention they agreed transfer can be
>> successful.
>>
>> John and I can stand-by over the weekend by email to help with evalso
>> testing and commissioning activities as needed.
>>
>> First light today? Tomorrow??
>>
>> Cheers, Gijs
>>
>>
>> Op 25-3-2011 14:23, helmich schreef:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We did a test transfer via Evalso(-light) which according to the log
>> went
>>> at 7.3MByte/s (!). The transfer scripts only searches for FITS files (we
>>> tried a dummy file with .fits extension, idea was to put md5sums in
>> there,
>>> - no luck, my guess is the fpack compression fails badly on fake .fits
>>> files).
>>>
>>> So, I will probably have to send md5sums separately by email. Further
>> issue
>>> is that I couldn't see the particular file on the FTP server in
>> Garching.
>>> This is because the transfer scripts assume the file is in format
>>> OMEGA.<date-obs>.fits, which apparently the data handling software
>> should
>>> create (see Stefano's mail below).
>>>
>>> One part (the first) in the chain is still missing: the services that
>>> upload data from the IWS to the DHS are not running. Andrea is looking
>> into
>>> this. Problem is that here too, the knowledge and responsibility appears
>> to
>>> be fragmented. From the DHS the scripts are now set to transfer every
>>> single file to Garching, so once we start we'll see soon enough how the
>>> whole thing manages.
>>>
>>> Ewout
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Re: Evalso-light
>>> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:54:52 +0100
>>> From: Stefano Zampieri<szampier at eso.org>
>>> To: helmich<helmich at astro.rug.nl>
>>>
>>> Hi Ewout,
>>>     the file ended up in the wrong directory because of its
>>>     name. The expected name is<OLAS_ID>.<timestamp>.fits
>>>     which is the ESO standard archive name generated by OLAS.
>>>     As far as I know the OLAS_ID for OMEGACAM is OMEGA therefore
>>>     the filename should be
>>> OMEGA.YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.fits
>>>     and it will be saved in directory /OMEGA
>>>     (I will create a link on the FTP server for OMEGA)
>>>
>>> Stefano
>>>
>>> On 25/03/2011 13:41, helmich wrote:
>>>> Hi Stefano,
>>>>
>>>> We've done a test transfer of a file ( OCAM_IMG_FLAT279_0001.fits.fz ).
>>>> It seems to have gone nicely, at 7MB/s, but I cannot find it in the
>>>> /OMEGACAM directory on the FTP server. The log file of the transfer is
>>>> attached. Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Ewout
>>>>
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