DM Highlights 2016-04-27 to 2016-05-03

[timj (Tim Jenness)]

Accomplishments

• A new dipole fitting algorithm was added to ip_diffim along with a refactoring of the unit tests. (DM-4999, DM-5296, DM-5249)
• The StarFast simulation tool is now available. (DM-5298)

Documentation

• DMTN-012: StarFast - A Fast Simulation Tool for Testing Algorithms (DM-5298)

Presentations

• @davidciardi attended the Maximizing Science in the Era of LSST: A Community-based Study of Needed US OIR Capabilities meeting in Tucson. This included leading a session on the computational and data resources needed by the community to make effective and efficient use of the LSST survey data. (link to the talk will be added when it becomes available)

RFC Activity

• RFC-178 Proposed Add Astropy to stack.
• RFC-177 Proposed Enforce Astropy-compliant strings for units in afw.table.
• RFC-176 Proposed Add psutil to stack.
• RFC-174 Proposed Suppress gcc warnings about “unused local typedefs”.
• RFC-173 Withdrawn Pass a butler to the constructor of all command-line tasks.
• RFC-172 Proposed Add meas_extensions_shapeHSM and dependencies to lsst_distrib.
• RFC-171 Adopted Add pipe_drivers to lsst_distrib.

Other Items

• Multi-threading inside blas can now be disabled in tasks. (DM-4714)
• The HSC MPI driver for single-visit processing has been ported to LSST. (DM-3368)
• mpich updated to v3.2 (DM-5847)