The following are the official, recent release notes for the MWA ASVO. For older release notes, see MWA ASVO Past Release Notes.
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This item relates to the front end web site of the MWA ASVO and the associated VO TAP service....
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This item relates to the server back-end of the MWA ASVO system, which includes the dispatch service, processor service and cotter....
5-Sep-2018
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This represents a breaking change to existing functionality
03 Dec 2024
- Green
| web | The cone search now has a checkbox. When unchecked, it will perform a strict cone search against the observation pointing. When checked (this used to be the default behaviour), the cone search will show any results where the cone is anywhere within the primary beam. This will mean you get a lot more results than the strict cone search. update processor to use either native Birli or the singularity version of Birli through the configuration.
05 Nov 2024
- Greenweb Migrating the processor from Garrawarla to Setonix.
14 Aug 2024
- Conversion jobs now have the option to apply a unit bandpass correction. This is equivalent to the cotter “-sbpassband” option. Ticking the box will effectively cause the MWA ASVO to not apply the corrections by passing all 1’s to cotter.
24-Jul-2018
- Enhancements: TAP service is now accessible via https (http will still work though). It is recommended to use https://vo.mwatelescope.org/mwa_asvo/tap instead of http as sometime in the future the http endpoint will be deprecated.
9 Aug 2024
- Blue
| client | new command line option: -e <error_file> | --error-file=<error_file> | --errfile=<error_file>. This allows users to specify a file which all job-related errors are written to in a machine-readable format (JSON). This is to make it easier for users to write batch processes to submit, download and track MWA ASVO jobs. Allow scratch delivery to deliver as a tar file. User can choose the delivery format as tar when delivery is selected as scratch. - Fixed bug where birli manifest hash verification was failing.
- Blueclient mwa_client now uses the argparse module instead of the deprecated optparse module to process command line arguments Allow MWAX_VCS jobs to specify a range of coarse channels. User can select a range of channels they want to download instead of all the channels.
- Command line option -w | --download-only= now accepts "all" as well as a job id of 0 to mean- download any jobs which are available for download.
26-Jun-2018
- Fixes (Giant-squid): Submitting jobs should be able to continue after the failure of a single job. When multiple jobs are submitted through Giant-squid, a failure in a single job caused it to quit, which is now fixed. Giant-squid now will proceed to the next job if a job fails.
2 Jul 2024
- changed the way internal worker processes communicate, in order to prevent the stdout errors such as "Invalid file object..." when running jobs.Enhancements: Fix SQL bug in db.py
- Jobs page data fetching logic has been updated
- all new job products will now have their sha1 hash calculated (you can see it under the "Download" button). To verify the integrity of your download, use an sha1 tool (for example sha1sum <filename>) to compare the expected versus the actual checksum.
- the sha1 hash is now displayed in the mwa_client when a download completes.
- the mwa_client will now display the file size (in bytes) of completed jobs along side the other job information when using the -l (--list-only) option
24-Jun-2018
- Enhancements: Fixed blank login page
- Migrating Dev environment onto Setonix(on going)
14 May 2024
- Admin setting: This is an admin feature enables the admin to schedule maintenance , post maintenance message , partially outage some of the jobs. for example, blocking only the jobs that delivers to acacia when acacia is down. This will allow us to keep working parts of the system operational when only one Pawsey component is offline or not working.
- Added ORCID field to the registration and my profile, this is an optional field. Existing users can go to their profile and update their ORCID. We capture ORCIDs from users to better understand how MWA data is used by researchers.
- Allow users to unsubscribe from email status updates from MWA ASVO team. The user can go to their profile and uncheck the option to opt out. We will only send status emails when there is a major issue or disruption to users.
- Allow resubmission / retry of completed or errored or cancelled jobs.
- Retry feature: For failed or cancelled voltage jobs, "retry" allows a partially completed voltage job to be resumed from where it left off. (via web front end only).
- Resubmit: All type of jobs that are failed or cancelled or completed can be resubmitted using the same parameters.
- Use -ar, --allow-resubmit to resubmit the jobs through the manta-ray-client CLI
- Use -r, --allow-resubmit to resubmit the jobs through the giant-squid CLI
- new command line options for mwa_client, allows you to submit jobs and exit (-s); list your jobs and exit (-l); download a job (-w JOBID); download all your jobs (-w 0). It still supports submitting, monitoring and blocking until all downloads are complete as it did before. See manta-ray-client github for the new options and examples.
- added an "example.csv" template to make it easier for new users to craft a csv file.
- minor updates to the output text, including a new option (-v) to show verbose output.
20-Jun-2018
- Fixes:giant-squid CLI now has a new download command line argument
--download-dir. This allows the user to specify which directory to download data to. If omitted, it will default to the current working directory ('.') which was the behaviour prior to this release. - Cosmetic changes: Date formatting; redirect to home after password reset; error message handling; removed some deprecated code; removed a column an internal table data_files that was no longer needed.
- Distinguish between different job types in SLURM queue.
- Visibility Download jobs are named
{MWA ASVO jobid}vis - Voltage Download jobs are named
{MWA ASVO jobid}volt - Conversion jobs have several steps:
- Download data step jobs are named
{MWA ASVO jobid}convdload - Birli step jobs are named
{MWA ASVO jobid}convbirli - Delivery of data step jobs are named
{MWA ASVO jobid}convdelivery - Cleanup/Error step jobs are named
{MWA ASVO jobid}converror
05 March 2024
- Refining the way we choose different VSS server when attempt fails downloading from Banksia
- staging only required files from Banksia for VCS and Visibility meta jobs - to decrease the waiting time of a job in the queue.
- Add download and upload throughput measurements to processor logs to find the speed of download.
- Fixing sorting issue in admin interface.
18 January 2024
- Package updates: Python packages are updated from 3.8 to 3.11 except processor.
- Package updates: React is updated to v18 except axios.
- Accessing a web page which requires the user to be logged in will now take them to a login page Removal of /astro as a delivery option and processing. Please be aware that the /astro option will be removed from ASVO after the January 18th release. If any jobs with the delivery option as /astro were submitted just before the release, they might encounter issues after Pawsey removes the /astro filesystem on the 22nd. Also, any job data that is left in astro will be lost.
- On query page, "project" drop down is now sorted correctly and includes a short description (which is also searchable). UI / UX changes: fixed in search button observation page , filtering issue in jobs page.
- log in locally using email address.
- Blue fixing permission issues with readme.
13 December 2023
- Fix delete request filter issues
| client | Fixed an issue where the "Jobs" page and the manta-ray-client did not allow the use of a non-integer time resolution setting. e.g. 0.5 would result in an error: "Time resolution not of type integer". Remove column "Flags" from search results grid- Priority penalty for ASVO jobs according to the Env
29 November 2023
- Fix to download VCS data directly into the delivery location.
22 November 2023
- Removal of SSO Login
- New login page
- Fixed an issue where the query form is not showing all observations when performing a search. Scratch Delivery option
- Restrict SSO Login from ASVO CLI clients
- Binding Scratch to SLURM
- Fixed an issue where rerunning the manta-ray-client with the same csv file produces multiple jobs (which are all the same except for the order of the parameters), instead of 'reconnecting' to the existing job(s) manta-ray-client and giant-squid will support scratch delivery option
07 November 2023
- Added new wiki URLs.
- Internal admin page, user activation and security fixes.
- Fixed several issues when closing down processes New MWAX voltage download validations.
- The processor will explicitly ignore files in the archive which are not required for the data job. This will prevent errors like this: "MWA: 50 and NGAS: 51 file number mismatch; ignoring: 1066572736" from occurring.Enhancements: Hash Manifest of files created by Birli.
- Restricting Jobs from SSO users.
03 October 2023
- Updated look and feel Frontend / REACT refactor.
- Changed font to be much more readable for numbers Registration of new account via single sign on (SSO) has been removed. See: Removal of Single Sign on for MWA Services for more info.
- v1 of Admin interface merged into main website for superusers.
- Green
| web | We've added a twitter feed (@mwa_asvo) to the front page which will be used to update users of any service status changes or issues to the MWA ASVO Conversion job products now ship a manifest file containing the filenames and sha1 checksum before the files are delivered to /astro or Acacia so filesystem errors can be more easily detected by users. - Backend logs now contain more information about the Banksia endpoint used to download data from tape in order to allow easier debugging when there are issues.
05 September 2023
- Many minor text changes, fixes and updates to the static pages of the MWA ASVO website.
- Dates are now displayed in ISO 8601 format Updated calibration option text and tooltip.
- Added Change Password feature Removed twitter widget from front page and replaced with text and a link to our outages page, as there is still no fix from X.
- On query page, "from date" can be searched without "to date" and vice-versa Profile page: Added list of projects that user is a PI of to profile page. These are the projects where you are able to submit delete requests.
- Upon registering, users will now be shown a message box telling them their registration is successful and that they will need to verify their email address. This should prevent users from clicking register multiple times. Profile page: Show user ID, superuser status and MWA Member status.
- Added information about compliance with privacy policy.
30 May 2018
- Fixes: Profile page: Show list of projects the user has special permissions for.
- Blue
| client | Added keyboard interrupt handler to the mwa_client to prevent nuisance error messages when sending Ctrl-C key sequence.Enhancements: Observations (search) page: MWAX_BUFFER has been added to the "Correlator Mode" dropdown (and corresponding "ANY VCS" option. - Blue brighter
| client | Made white text in mwa_client Observations (search) page: New search criteria: "Archived Data Files"- a range allowing you to restrict results to only those observations with that many data files (note: Metafits files or flags are NOT included in that number). - Blue
| client | mwa_client now ignores lines beginning with # so you can now comment your csv files.
23 May 2018
- Fixes:
- Modified prerequisites so it includes a minimum version number of the "requests" package. Users reported that using "requests" package below version 2.18.3 was causing errors.
26 February 2018
- Fixes:
- VO TAP service returns correct output for availability and capabilities; also is now MWA branded.
12 February 2018
- Fixes: Observations (search) page: New search criteria: "Archived Data Size"- a range allowing you to restrict results to only those observations with that total size of data (note: Metafits files or flags are NOT included in that number). Choose units (B, KB, MB, GB, TB). NOTE units are SI/metric prefix not binary prefix.
- Observations (search) page: "Total archived data bytes" now provides a human readable value instead of a huge unformatted number of bytes. E.g 1234567890 bytes will be shown as 1.2 GB. NOTE units are SI/metric prefix not binary prefix.
- Observations (search) page: issues with the search table's pagination have now been fixed.
- New user registration info will now also include the Institution/affiliation, allowing admins to more easily approve new users.
01 August 2023
- Processor now ignores directory structure of flag file when unzipping which was causing issues for some older observations.
9 February 2018
- Enhancements: Various OS patches
- SSL certificates updated
- The processor now uses a round robin user queue for processing jobs. This means if user A submits 100 jobs and, a few minutes later, user B submits 2 jobs, then it will alternate between processing A's and B's jobs such that user B is not waiting for user A's jobs to finish before user B's jobs start. Instead it would process them: A, B, A, B, A, A, A... and so on. This will result in a much more fair allocation of jobs for users If an internal server error occurs with status code 500. It will try an alternative webserver before giving an error.
- Logging messages are updated with descriptive messages and provide absolute paths for jobs.
- If the processor is shutdown, it will now re-queue the job.
7 February 2018
- Enhancements:
Added MWA_ASVO_README.md to downloaded files. Now, users will have a new file in their downloads that gives information about MWA ASVO.
- giant-squid client now supports voltage jobs (note: usual restrictions apply- please Contact Support if you need to be able to download voltages)
- Added buttons on the query results page to allow export of the results to csv format so they can be used as inputs to the manta-ray-client. ASVO is added with filters in the "My Jobs" page for Job type and status.
- Total Archieved Bytes(Size of observation) in the Observations page is formatted.
- Pre-submission validations are added in both web-UI and the backend to capture pre-processor errors in advance.
26 July 2023
- Blue
| client | Jump out of mwa_client earlier and report error, if there are no jobs specified in the csv file. Birli version bumped to v0.9.2 which resolves an issue where CASA measurement sets created by Birli may contain files which have a last access time in 2021. This was causing issues for users who are on filesystems with a purge policy which deletes those files as they are too old. Now Birli writes the files with up to date timestamps.
21 July 2023
- mwa_client will ignore empty rows in csv file. manta-ray-client now prints the line/job number with submission issues in order to make finding and fixing issues in the csv file easier.
19th July 2023
- The generated metafits file passed to the cotter process is now included in the output zip file for conversion jobs.
18 January 2018
- Enhancements: Changed
copyq partition to asvo-copyq partition, Updating the Slurm output logs, and adding birli_manifest to check for better astro filesystem debugging.
4th July 2023
- Change from displaying channel number to channel frequency in search results.
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- New feature: If you are the PI of an MWA project/proposal (or an MWA ASVO superuser), you will see a new icon on the "Observations" page called "Request Deletion". If, as a PI, you want to nominate one or many observations from your project for deletion, click on the button and provide a name for the request and the reason for nominating for deletion. At a future date, the details of observations in this (and other) delete requests will be emailed to the MWA collaboration for a 4 week consultation process. If no objection is received in writing by the Director, the request will be approved, and then the data will be deleted. You can view existing Delete Requests by clicking on your profile (name) in the top right and selecting "Delete Requests". You can then view or cancel your delete requests. There are also filters available to manage the list if it becomes too large (useful for superusers especially).
- The 2 new ARDC Collections have been added to the About→Data Collections menu & search options.
24th January 2023
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Following a discussion at the 2022A MWA project meeting, Cotter has been removed from the MWA ASVO entirely. Birli will now be used for all conversion jobs.- Initial release Following user feedback, metafits files are now included with the output products of conversion jobs.
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The names of parameters that are passed to conversion jobs have changed.- Users can still use the web frontend to submit jobs
- Users will not need to update the manta-ray-client
- Users will need to update the CSV that they use to submit jobs with the manta-ray-client.
- See here for details MWA ASVO: Command Line Client (manta-ray-client)