ICALEPCS2013 - List of Authors (Guzman, J.C.)

Paper

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SKA Monitioring and Control Progress Status

340

S. Roy Chaudhuri, S. Natarajan
TRDDC, Pune, India
D. Barbosa
GRIT, Aveiro, Portugal
A. Bridger
ROE, UTAC, United Kingdom
T. Coiffard
GTD, Barcelona, Spain
Y. Gupta, Y.G. Wadadekar
NCRA, Pune, India
J.C. Guzman
CSIRO ATNF, Epping, Australia
V.K. Mohile
PSL, Pune, India
R. Smareglia
INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
L. Van den Heever
SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
S. Vrcic
DRAO, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada

The Monitoring and Control system for the SKA radio telescope is now moving from the conceptual design to the system requirements and design phase, with the formation of a consortium geared towards delivering the Telescope Manager (TM) work package. Recent program decisions regarding hosting of the telescope across two sites, Australia and South Africa, have brought in new challenges from the TM design perspective. These include strategy to leverage the individual capabilities of autonomous telescopes, and also integrating the existing precursor telescopes (ASKAP and MeerKat) with heterogenous technologies and approaches into the SKA. A key design goal from the viewpoint of minimizing development and lifecycle costs is to have a uniform architectural approach across the telescopes, and to maximize standardization of software and instrumentation across the systems, despite potential variations in system hardware and procurement arrangements among the participating countries. This paper discusses some of these challenges, and their mitigation approaches that the consortium intends to work upon, along with an update on the current status and progress on the overall TM work.

TUCOBAB04

Evaluation of Issue Tracking and Project Management Tools for Use Across All CSIRO Radio Telescope Facilities

509

J.C. Guzman
CSIRO ATNF, Epping, Australia

CSIRO's radio astronomy observatories are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). The observatories include the 64-metre dish at Parkes, the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) in Narrabri, the Mopra 22-metre dish near Coonabarabran and the ASKAP telescope located in Western Australia and in early stages of commissioning. In January 2013 a new group named Software and Computing has been formed. This group, part of the ATNF Operations Program brings all the software development expertise under one umbrella and it is responsible for the development and maintenance of the software for all ATNF facilities, from monitoring and control to science data processing and archiving. One of the first task of the new group is to start homogenising the way software development is done across all observatories. This paper presents the results of the evaluation of several issue tracking and project management tools, including Redmine and JIRA to be used as a software development management tool across all ATNF facilities. It also describes how these tools can potentially be used for non-software type of applications such as fault reporting and tracking system.

Slides TUCOBAB04 [2.158 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
MOPPC100	SKA Monitioring and Control Progress Status	340
	S. Roy Chaudhuri, S. Natarajan TRDDC, Pune, India D. Barbosa GRIT, Aveiro, Portugal A. Bridger ROE, UTAC, United Kingdom T. Coiffard GTD, Barcelona, Spain Y. Gupta, Y.G. Wadadekar NCRA, Pune, India J.C. Guzman CSIRO ATNF, Epping, Australia V.K. Mohile PSL, Pune, India R. Smareglia INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy L. Van den Heever SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa S. Vrcic DRAO, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
	The Monitoring and Control system for the SKA radio telescope is now moving from the conceptual design to the system requirements and design phase, with the formation of a consortium geared towards delivering the Telescope Manager (TM) work package. Recent program decisions regarding hosting of the telescope across two sites, Australia and South Africa, have brought in new challenges from the TM design perspective. These include strategy to leverage the individual capabilities of autonomous telescopes, and also integrating the existing precursor telescopes (ASKAP and MeerKat) with heterogenous technologies and approaches into the SKA. A key design goal from the viewpoint of minimizing development and lifecycle costs is to have a uniform architectural approach across the telescopes, and to maximize standardization of software and instrumentation across the systems, despite potential variations in system hardware and procurement arrangements among the participating countries. This paper discusses some of these challenges, and their mitigation approaches that the consortium intends to work upon, along with an update on the current status and progress on the overall TM work.

TUCOBAB04	Evaluation of Issue Tracking and Project Management Tools for Use Across All CSIRO Radio Telescope Facilities	509
	J.C. Guzman CSIRO ATNF, Epping, Australia
	CSIRO's radio astronomy observatories are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). The observatories include the 64-metre dish at Parkes, the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) in Narrabri, the Mopra 22-metre dish near Coonabarabran and the ASKAP telescope located in Western Australia and in early stages of commissioning. In January 2013 a new group named Software and Computing has been formed. This group, part of the ATNF Operations Program brings all the software development expertise under one umbrella and it is responsible for the development and maintenance of the software for all ATNF facilities, from monitoring and control to science data processing and archiving. One of the first task of the new group is to start homogenising the way software development is done across all observatories. This paper presents the results of the evaluation of several issue tracking and project management tools, including Redmine and JIRA to be used as a software development management tool across all ATNF facilities. It also describes how these tools can potentially be used for non-software type of applications such as fault reporting and tracking system.
	Slides TUCOBAB04 [2.158 MB]