Pipeline running on CADC grid engine

Last week I (Tim J) visited CADC to work on integrating ORAC-DR into the CADC grid engine system. This involved making sure that the pipeline wrapper interfaced properly with CADC and that the data retrieval and data capture routines were given the correct inputs.

On Wednesday 6th May we were successful in running four jobs in parallel on the compute cluster. This is a terrific result and leads the way to being able to do the night processing on CADC in short order and then to follow up with processing of project coadds. In the next few weeks I will be working on the code that will query the data archive and submit job requests to grid engine.

It also means that in principal survey teams could request that jobs be submitted to grid engine to make use of the processing nodes.