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Project Manager Reports

Project Manager Reports. Ron Remillard (MIT) & Tom Booler (Curtin, Aurecon) MWA Project Meeting December 5, 2011. Outline. Part 1: Ron Remillard (overview) Review Project Office and Science Leads Status of MWA groups at different Institutions Overview of Project Elements

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Project Manager Reports

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  1. Project Manager Reports Ron Remillard (MIT) & Tom Booler (Curtin, Aurecon) MWA Project Meeting December 5, 2011

  2. Outline • Part 1: Ron Remillard (overview) • Review Project Office and Science Leads • Status of MWA groups at different Institutions • Overview of Project Elements • Project Element Interfaces & Recent Developments • Management Challenges 2012 • Part 2: Tom Booler (building 128T) • Site Construction Plan • Cost and Schedule • Relations with CSIRO and AAL • Questions & Discussion

  3. Project Office and Science Package Leaders Project OfficeOfficerOfficial Term Project Director Steven Tingay (Curtin) Dec. 2012 Project Scientist Judd Bowman (ASU) June 2012 Systems Engineer Bob Goeke (MIT, Curtin) June 2012 Project Manager (Tom Booler (Curtin) agenda: Thurs. Board Meeting) Deputy Project Manager for India Uday Shankar June 2012 Deputy Project Manager for US ? Science GroupsLeader Science Council Stuart Wyithe (Melbourne) EoR Science Package Jackie Hewitt (MIT) Solar, Heliosphere, Ionosphere Anthea Coster (MIT Haystack) Transients David Kaplan (UWI-M) Galactic & Extragalactic Lister Stavely-Smith (U. W. Au.)

  4. Status: MWA Teams in Australia InstitutionEmphasisMembersa Curtin University Buildout; Project Office; Correlator; Archive; 11 Commissioning; Operations; EoR; Surveys University of Melbourne RTS; Archive; EoR 4 University of Sydney Transients; GEG 4 Australian National University EoR; GEG 2 U. Western Australia GEG; M&C 2 Swinburne University GEG 1 __________________ a counting PhDs and graduate students

  5. Status: MWA Teams Outside of Australia InstitutionEmphasisMembersaFunding RRI, India Receiver production; EoR, Transients 9 long term Victoria U., New Zealand RTC; GEG 2 long term USA: MIT Kavli Rec. support; EoR; Archive; Trans. 9 current & pending MIT Haystack BF Tests; EoR; SHI 5 current & pending U. Washington M&C; EoR 4 current & pending Harvard-SAO EoR; SHI; surveys 3 current Arizona State EoR; surveys 3b current & pending U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee Transients 1 current __________________ a counting PhDs and graduate students b plus 2 undergrads building a beamformer characterization/calibration instrument

  6. Project Elements in the Project Management Plan Project ElementLeader 1. Site & Infrastructure Steven Tingay (Curtin) 2. Antenna / Beamformer TBD needs attention 3. Receivers Brian Crosse (Curtin) 4. Correlator Steve Ord (Curtin) 5. Monitor & Control System Miguel Morales (U Wash.) 6. RTS & RTC Daniel Mitchell (Melbourne) & need a RTC/Network manager 7. Data Archive David Pallot (Curtin) 8. Operations Dave Emrich (Curtin)

  7. Suggested Revision to Project Elements Project ElementLeader2012 outlook 1. Site & Infrastructure Steven Tingay (Curtin) √ 2. Antenna / Beamformer TBD needs attention 3. Receivers Brian Crosse (Curtin) √ 4. Correlator Steve Ord (Curtin) √ 5. Monitor & Control System Miguel Morales (U Wash.) √ 6. Real Time System Daniel Mitchell (Melbourne) √ 7. MWA Computers & Networking TBD needs attention 8. Data Archive David Pallot (Curtin) √ 9. Commissioning (Randall Wayth ?) funding? Board? 10. Operations Dave Emrich (Curtin) √

  8. Some Project Element Interfaces Project ElementInterfacesDefinition Issues 1. Site & Infrastructure 2. Antenna / Beamformer 3. Receivers 4. Correlator 5. Monitor & Control System M&C Correlator 6. Real Time System 7. RTC and Networks 8. Data Archive MRO disks  Perth archive 9. Commissioning Commissioning Plan 10. Operations Project Review of M&C Project Review of RTS MRO computer plan

  9. Interface and Planning: Recent Developments • Will we save correlator data? yes • Where will RTS run? MRO • Second RTS version running in Perth? likely (test revisions; test algorithms; archive re-processing) • How do we transfer data from MRO to Perth fiber link + disk backup Estimated load (100% duty cycle) on 10 GBS link, MRO to Perth Correlator auto- and cross-correlations 16% (256 ccors and 32640 xcors every 0.5 s; scaled, 16-bits per array) RTS data (HEALpix files at 200 s; also use 16 bit, scaled?) 18% Double the data rate load if 32-bit words are necessary • Backup Plan for Link Outages: disk costs ~$60K. 2 weeks (100% duty cycle) x 2 sets (transportation)

  10. Management Challenges for 2012 (Systems Level) • Project Review of M&C; early 2012 (complete ICDs; test expansion to 128T) • Project Review of RTS; early 2012 (complete ICDs; simulations for 128T) • Complete Computer & Networking Plan; 1st quarter 2012 (RTC + others) • Complete Data Products and Archiving Plan; 1st quarter 2012 • Complete Commissioning Plan; 2nd quarter 2012 (Commissioning is complex & coming fast; needs organization & automation) • Accepted Operations Plan; 1st quarter 2012 (now in draft 3; topic Tues. & Thurs.; needed for Operations proposal(s))

  11. Additional Comments: Management Challenges for 2012 • Tom will need help with system-level project management tasks, while he is working on site preparation, procurement, hardware deployment, CSIRO relations, and AAL communications during the Construction Phase in early 2012. • Science package leaders must refresh their organizationsfor: team members, data needs, science software, and involvement in Commissioning phase.

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