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1 ANASAC f2f Meeting – 17 May 2016

NAASC StatusAnthony Remijan – NA ARC ManagerPhil Jewell – AD NA ALMA Operations

ANASAC f2f Meeting – 17 May 2016


NAASC Status

Outline

• NAASC Scientific and Technical Goals• Evolution of the NAASC Organizational Structure

– Staffing Changes– Management Changes

• NAASC Team Structure– Roles and Responsibilities

• NAASC Program Planning– Tracking of NAASC Staff effort – Weekly Team Organizational Meeting– 6 Month Planning and Review Meetings

• Planning for FY17 and beyond


NAASC Status

• NAASC Scientific and Technical Goals– Provide better/enhanced data products to the PI. Requires

careful review of the observing setup and expertise in data reduction and imaging

– Commission and deliver the Imaging Pipeline– Provide/Improve the communication with the JAO on the

identification of problems with the array or with a single antenna or subsystem

– Continue to expand the ALMA user base beyond radio interferometry experts

– Put the data in the hands of the PIs faster and more efficiently.


NAASC StatusStaffing Changes

• Key Departures:– Mark Rawlings – JCMT– Lyndele von Schill – Director, ODI– Danielle Lucero – Leiden– Erica Lastufka – South Africa– Anand Crossley – PMD– Carol Lonsdale – Emeritus– Alison Peck - Gemini

• Key additions:– Catherine Vlahakis – Team Lead– Sabrina Stierwalt – Team Lead– Eric Murphy – Archive and Data Reduction support– Aaron Evans – Returned from Sabbatical

• Key Delays:– Devaky Kunneriath – Hired on a 2 year appointment but needed a visa renewal (4 month delay)– Illsang Yoon – Hired on a 2 year appointment – will start on June 1 (9 month delay)– Micheal Ivory – Hired as the NAASC Admin on 09 Dec; left the NAASC on 28 April

• Management Changes:– John Hibbard stepped down as the ARC Manager– Catarina Ubach was promoted to Lead Data Analyst


Phase II TeamSimon, Lead

Pipeline TeamHunter, Lead

NA ALMA Telescope Support Hibbard, Div Head

NA ALMA User Support

Lonsdale, Div Head

Data Reduction TeamMoullet, Lead

SSR-NAASC Science User

Support GroupPeck, Group Lead

NA ALMAAD

Jewell

AD, SSRBastian

Donovan-MeyerKepleyKunnerathLacyLuceroMurphy

StierwaltMatthews (NRC)Mason (GBT)DA effort (SSR)

LisztRawlingsSchieven (NRC)<+staff_on_turno/EOC>

Indebetouw< + DR staff when avail>

NA ALMA Pgm SciWootten

Dep Pgm SciBrogan

NA Ant. SupportMangum

NRAO Community Outreach Team

Peck, Lead

BraatzOthers as assigned

Evans

Data Analyst TeamCrossley, Lead

FischerHarrisonKellerKimKirkLastufka

McNicolsUbachWoodD Medlin VLAH Medlin VLAPerera GB

Evolution of the NAASC Organizational Structure (circa Aug 2015)

25 Aug 2015

NA EOC SupportFomalont

< +NA staff on assignment >

JAO EOC LeadRemijan


NA Offsite SW Support

NRAO-Chile Office

Telescope SW M&R

Post-Processing

SW

NA ALMA Offsite HW

Support

NA ALMA

NRAO Director

Front End / LO

Back End

Photonic LO

Correlator

Antenna

Data Mgmt& SW

Science Support & Research

Science User Support

Central Dev Lab

NA ALMA Science

Center / ARC

NA ALMA Development

NA ALMA Construction

Warranty

Telescope Interface

Software Support

Archive & Pipeline Ops

Science Community

Interface

Science Data Services

New Team Structure

Evolution of the NAASC Organizational Structure (circa Dec 2015)


Direct line managementDirect line managers are responsible for employee performance evaluations and eventual recommendation for promotion or advancement. Approval for vacation, service or science travel (TEV/TAF) or other leave needs to be approved by the direct line managers.Direct line managers approve timecards and will perform PEPs with input provided by the Team Leads.

Phil Jewell

• Brogan• Hunter• Liszt• Mangum• Donovan Meyer• Wootten• Murphy• Remijan• Fomalont

Anthony Remijan

• Braatz• Mason• Lacy• Simon• Moullet• Hibbard• Stierwalt• Evans• Indebetouw• Ubach• Kepley• Vlahakis

Catarina Ubach

• Fisher• Wood• Kim• Kirk• McNichols• Harrison• Keller• Kunneriath• Yoon• New Analyst 1• New Analyst 2

Figure 1: Management Structure and Direct Reporting Lines.


Teams – Execution of NAASC TasksThe NAASC staff is diverse in talent and expertise.

With about 30 scientific and technical staff, we are too big to have all our tasks managed by a single manager but we are too small to segregate ourselves into distinct and autonomous groups (e.g. manufacturing, R&D, distribution, etc…)

NAASC activities can be broken up into roughly 4 categories (in the proposed structure, called Teams) and each Team is led by a Team Lead.

Team Leads Meetings will be conducted with the ARC Manager on a weekly basis (at minimum) to discuss the overall priorities for the Team and to coordinate resources to enable the successful completion of Tasks. These meeting are nominally scheduled for early Friday afternoons.

Team Members will have primary responsibilities within a single team but will have tasks across teams. Team Members’ priorities will be made clear at Team Coordination Meetings and reviewed at weekly NAASC meetings


Team and Task Management ChartTeam Level

Team Leads do not have direct line management

ARC Manager is responsible for

coordination and prioritization of team

tasks.

Names in italics have direct line reports

outside of the NAASC.

Anthony Remijan(NA ARC Manager)

Telescope Interface and

Diagnostic TeamLead (Vlahakis)

MembersFomalont

HunterSimon

SchievenLiszt

DiFrancesco

ALMA Software Support and Testing TeamLead (Mason)

MembersHibbardBrogan

Donovan MeyerIndebetouw

KepleyMcNicholsHarrison

Science Community

Interface TeamLead (Stierwalt)

MembersBraatzEvans

WoottenKirk

WoodKeller

RemijanMatthews

Science Data Services and

Archive TeamLead (Lacy)

MembersMangumMoullet

KunneriathCrossley

KimUbachFisher

MurphyYoon

New Analyst 1New Analyst 2


Teams - Roles and Responsibilities• Telescope Interface and Diagnostics Team: Catherine Vlahakis

– AoD shifts– QA2 diagnostics– Technical & Diagnostic Liaison to the JAO– P2G Work– EOC Work and Activities

• ALMA Software Support & Testing Team: Brian Mason– Tools and Algorithm development– CASA Support and testing– Software testing for NA – Scientific Input (Phase C)– Overall software requirements processes improvements

• Science Data Services and Archive Team: Mark Lacy– ALMA archive improvements and deployment testing (Phase B) including Archive cognizant lead work– ALMA Quality assurance review (QA2) and interface with AQUA and other JAO quality evaluation tools– PI Data reduction and Imaging including Pipeline processing – LUSTRE access including external access and management of users to the NRAO cluster

• Science Community Interface Team: Sabrina Stierwalt– NAASC Community Day events– Coordination with the ODI on diversity initiates and broadening participation– Coordination with the EPO and Science Communication offices– Science web and ALMA Science portal improvements, enhancements and review.– Helpdesk/Forums management and oversight– Contact scientist support and oversight– End user documentation– Face-to-face visitor support including data reduction visitors, visiting scientists and sabbatical visits.


NAASC Program Planning

• Every year, the NRAO Strategic Plan is reviewed and work effort, milestones and new initiatives are identified within each Department.

• Each Department then consults with their Divisions and decides which efforts should be put into the Annual Program Operating Plan (POP)– We are currently working off the FY16 POP and will start the

development of the FY17 POP in 2016 May

• POP milestones are identified by each Team/Group within the Divisions and organized into Quarterly Strategic Planning Milestones and subsequent Team assignments

• Weekly Team Meetings take place to review work assignments, resource allocation and progress on POP milestones.


Next 180 Days/Future• Cycle 4 Preparations

• 15 June – Cycle 4 OFFLINE acceptance• 20 - 24 June - APR/APRC Meeting in Vienna • 05 Aug – ALMA Disposition Letters sent to PIs

• Cycle 3 Observations (updated at: https://almascience.nrao.edu/observing/alma-status-pag)• May – Move to C40-4 • Jun – Move to C40-5• July – Move to C40-6• Aug – Move to C40-3

• Data Reduction & Delivery (see next slide)• Ongoing – between 10 and 15 staff working on pipeline-assisted imaging or manual reductions

• CASA and Pipeline Testing• 01 June - ISOpT Cycle 4 Pipeline Final Requirements• 01 July - ICT Pipeline Cycle 4 R2• 28 July – Pipeline Review• 01 Aug - CASA 4.7 Development Feature Freeze

• Community Science Outreach• 01 – 08 June – Synthesis Imaging Summer School in Socorro, NM• Ongoing - Document Preparations start for Cycle 5• 01 – 31 May - Develop processes and work instructions for Contact scientist for PI generation of SBs.• 05 Aug – 15 Sept – PI generation of Phase 2 Scheduling Blocks

• ALMA Development Study Proposals• 07 June – Development Study Splinter Session at the Summer AAS• 24 Aug – Development Study workshop in Charlottesville, VA


User-Facing IssuesData Delivery Challenges• Delivery of Cycle 3 data for manual calibration and imaging has been slow due to several factors

including:– Delay in the installation of the calibration pipeline at the JAO in Jan– Delay in the delivery of the weblog reviews to the the ARCs– Errors found in collected data that required repair or an updated pipeline

• As such, the NAASC has started running the calibration pipeline and weblog review in order to keep up with demand. This is not an agreed upon workflow but action was needed.

• NAASC staff are keeping up with the workload supplied to them by the JAO. Current number of dataset in the “imaging queue” is 19 and the “manual queue” is 11. We are currently clearing about 11 datasets a week and we need to get closer to 20.

– Two Data Scientists have/are start(ing) – Devaky Kunneriath (02 May) and IlsangYoon (01 June)– Data Reduction Contract work – Joanna Corby (09 May – 21 Oct)– Two new Data Analysts being hired – start date (TBD)

• NAASC staff have taken a leading role in the identification and characterization of the data acquisition issues at the JAO:

– SACM-211 - and helped formulate the mitigation plan including how to broadcast the issue to the ALMA user base.

– SACM-450 – issues with the frequency setups on some SBs which hindered data acquisition.


Planning for FY17 and Beyond

1. Enhanced Data Delivery Imaging Pipeline SRDP– Put data in the ALMA data in the hands of PIs more quickly

• Goal for FY2017:– Achieve Delivery times of 30 days for Standard Mode Observations– 45 days for Non-Standard Observations

– Achieving a well-working Imaging Pipeline is the key first step in SRDP

• Overall objective: Improve delivered data products to speed publication

• Pipeline review scheduled for July 28 (at AMT f2f meeting in CV)

2. Expand Reach / Training for Community– Broaden geographics & demographics of ALMA users


Planning for FY17 and BeyondImplementation – Data Delivery, Pipeline, SRDP (Lacy/Mason)

• Currently staff-effort limited for data reduction and pipeline-SRDP testing. Critical to augment these efforts to meet accelerated delivery targets.

Implementation – Community (Stierwalt)• Objectives

1. Transform NRAO Live! into a Community-led Program• Using improved, NAASC-developed materials, train community postdocs to

training programs around NA

2. Improve NRAO Live! & Summer School lecture & presentation materials• Edit for level, consistency, appropriateness to audience


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