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 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

Project Office and Science Package Leaders

Project Office Officer Official 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 IndiaUday Shankar June 2012

Deputy Project Manager for US ?

Science Groups Leader

Science Council Stuart Wyithe (Melbourne)

EoR Science Package Jackie Hewitt (MIT)

Solar, Heliosphere, IonosphereAnthea Coster (MIT Haystack)

Transients David Kaplan (UWI-M)

Galactic & ExtragalacticLister Stavely-Smith (U. W. Au.)

Status: MWA Teams in Australia

Institution Emphasis Membersa

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

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a counting PhDs and graduate students

Status: MWA Teams Outside of Australia

Institution Emphasis Membersa Funding

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 studentsb plus 2 undergrads building a beamformer characterization/calibration instrument

Project Elements in the Project Management Plan

Project Element Leader

1. Site & InfrastructureSteven Tingay (Curtin)

2. Antenna / Beamformer TBD needs attention

3. Receivers Brian Crosse (Curtin)

4. Correlator Steve Ord (Curtin)

5. Monitor & Control SystemMiguel Morales (U Wash.)

6. RTS & RTCDaniel Mitchell (Melbourne) & need a RTC/Network manager

7. Data Archive David Pallot (Curtin)

8. Operations Dave Emrich (Curtin)

Suggested Revision to Project Elements

Project Element Leader 2012 outlook

1. Site & InfrastructureSteven Tingay (Curtin) √

2. Antenna / Beamformer TBD needs attention

3. Receivers Brian Crosse (Curtin) √

4. Correlator Steve Ord (Curtin) √

5. Monitor & Control SystemMiguel Morales (U Wash.) √

6. Real Time SystemDaniel 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) √

Some Project Element Interfaces

Project Element Interfaces Definition 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

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)

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))

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.