# DM Monthly Status Report for August 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** DM Notifications\ **Tags:** dm-highlights\ **Created:** [September 19, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/dm-monthly-status-report-for-august-2017/2256 "2017-09-19T21:54:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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The DM monthly status report covering August activities has been posted in Docushare, Collection-5185. For your convenience, the High-level Summary is pasted below. Direct link to full report (pdf): [http://ls.st/zay](http://ls.st/zay). ## High-level Summary DM attended and supported the LSST2017 Project and Community Workshop. Many interesting sessions were held including commissioning simulations with the Commissioning Team. DM provided the stack in a JupyterLab environment for project and community members to try out. We spent time preparing for the NSF/DOE Joint Status Review, to be held in September. This was, perhaps, easier for DM as we had all material ready from last month’s DM Review. In the run up to the JSR, there was a Director’s Review which was handled by the Deputy DMPM (Swinbank) and Jeff Kantor. DM supported the LSST Community Science Center working group’s face to face meeting at NOAO, where Melissa Graham gave a presentation on LSST data products, and contributed to writing the white paper report and William O’Mullane presented DM and the Science Platform. We continued to focus on the development of the key “end-to-end” system for testing Alert Production pipelines. The “robust coaddition” algorithmic prototype has been developed into a task which is now being integrated into the DM Stack. We have completed initial experiments into measuring galaxy shears directly on coadded images. All remaining parts of Qserv, associated tooling and scripts, and the DAX web services were ported to Python 3, and all C++ wrappers were ported to pybind11. Result retrieval for asynchronous/disconnect queries was implemented in Qserv. The build system has been improved allowing us to get better reports on test durations and status. FIrefly was deployed in a Docker container at NCSA. It is able to access the GPFS file system used for bulk data storage, making it possible to browse through re-processed HSC images at NCSA. We made a proposal to Project Systems Engineering for a detailed schedule, with dependencies, for the early integration of Observatory subsystems with each other, leading up to operations rehearsals and the deployment of the auxiliary telescope spectrograph. The proposal was discussed, refined, and adopted in sessions at the PCW, and will be incorporated into the PMCS. The Data Acquisition (DAQ) test stand deployment activity was completed with security vetting and follow-up in NCSA. Work on Disaster Recovery (DR) design and implementation was completed, with verification of successful backup and restore of several partitions. The AURA Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) equipment was received. Delays in REUNA DWDM equipment receipt from the vendor and in access to the Cerro Pachon caseta delayed the start of the equipment installation by one month. While this will not impact LSST commissioning, it will delay the First Optic Light Demonstration, as well as the installation of NCSA’s Identity Management equipment, into November.