This week coincided with the completion of the Winter 16 cycle.
Accomplishments
- There has been a change to how output directories are handled by command line tasks. See this discussion for more details. DM-4236
- An HSC continuous integration build now happens daily. DM-5222
- At the close of the W16 cycle, the DRP team completed an extensive test program designed to quantify the order and number of shapelet terms that are needed to model the PSF sufficiently accurately to meet our science requirements regarding galaxy shear measurement. These parameters have a signifcant impact on the overall computational budget for DRP. These tests are now being analysed and a summary of the methodology and results will be presented as a technical note early in the next cycle.
- At the end of the W16 cycle, almost all significant changes made on the Hyper Suprime-Cam fork of the LSST stack have been merged back to LSST. This includes both important new functionality and many bug-fixes and minor enhancements: see the draft release notes for the coming release for details. Remaining changes will be merged early in X16, and will be accompanied by an extensive program of testing and validation.
Documentation
- @merlin wrote a tutorial on using DS9 remotely on lsst-dev.
- The documentation on creating an LFS backed git repository has been updated. DM-5138
- Documentation of the multi-band coadd processing task in
pipe_taskshas been written. DM-2754
Presentations
- @mjuric and @rhl gave a DM status talk at the recent DESC Winter 2016 meeting.