ASKAP Science Data Processor software - ASKAPsoft Version 0.16.1

Brief description

ASKAPsoft, the ASKAP Science Data Processor, provides data processing functionality, including:

* Calibration
* Spectral line imaging
* Continuum imaging
* Source detection and generation of source catalogs
* Transient detection

ASKAPsoft is developed as a part of the CSIRO Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Science Data Processor component. ASKAPsoft is a key component in the ASKAP system. It is the primary software for storing and processing raw data, and initiating the archiving of resulting science data products into the data archive (CASDA).

The processing pipelines within ASKAPsoft are largely written in C++ built on top of casacore and other third party libraries. The software is designed to be parallelised, where possible, for performance.

ASKAPsoft is designed to be built and executed in a standard Unix/Linux environment and core dependencies must be fulfilled by the platform. These include, but are not limited to, a C/C++/Fortran compiler, Make, Python 2.7, Java 7 and MPI. More specific dependencies are downloaded by the ASKAPsoft build system and are installed within the ASKAPsoft development tree. Specific to the Debian platform, after a standard installation of Debian Wheezy (7.x) the following packages will need to be installed with apt-get:

* g++
* gfortran
* openjdk-7-jdk
* python-dev
* flex
* bison
* openmpi-bin
* libopenmpi-dev
* libfreetype6-dev
* libpng12-dev

More information regarding the building, installation and running of the software can be found in the README file in the root of the file structure that forms this collection.

Source code can be accessed via the links in Related Materials section.

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This is a patch release that fixes several issues:
* The parallel linear mosaicking tool linmos-mpi has been patched to correct a bug that was initialising cube slices incorrectly.
Several fixes to the CP manager and the pipeline scripts were made following end-to-end testing with the full ASKAP online system:
* The CP manager will send notifications to a nominated JIRA ticket upon SB state changes.
* Several fixes were made to the CASDA uploading and polling scripts, to ensure accurate execution. The capability of sending notifications to a JIRA ticket has also been added.
* The Project ID is now taken preferentially from the SB, rather than the config file.
* The linear mosaicking in the pipelines is now not turned off when only a single beam is processed.