This item relates to the server back-end of the MWA ASVO system, which includes the dispatch service, processor service and cotter.
This represents a breaking change to existing functionality
08 Apr 2025
Bug fixes - start time on jobs list , increased wall time of voltage and conversion jobs
Fixed bug where stream untar downloads were being written to your current directory rather than the directory you specify in the -d/--download-dir argument.
Multiple new Job states are included. It is handled in the backend and new status description displayed in the front end. Version of the ASVO server is bumped up to 2.0.0
New job states
Queued
Waiting for Calibration
Staging
Staged
Retrieving Files from Archive
Preprocessing
Imaging
Delivering
Completed
Error
Cancelled
Both the mwa asvo CLI clients mwa_client and giant-squid are updated to handle the new job states. Versions of both the clients are upgraded to 2.0.0.
03 Feb 2025
Adaptive wall time for birli(pre-processor). Birli calculates the size of the observation and decides on the wall time it needs to successfully complete the pre-processing without hitting the walltime.
Users can now search the Trigger information from the MWA ASVO search page and. the trigger ID ha been added to the TAP service and the observation results table in the web UI.
Voltage job submission through CLI client now will validate and throw error if the delivery option is not 'scratch'
Processor package has been updated.
New archive location has been added and outage of the new location is also handled in the admin settings.
Issue in login with username has been fixed.
MWA access permissions have been redefined.
Birli is updated to a newer version.
The new Calibration service has been implemented. Now, Calvin provides the calibration solution. ASVO will hold jobs in the queue until it receives a response from Calvin with the new calibration solution if one is not available, instead of failing the job.
03 Dec 2024
update processor to use either native Birli or the singularity version of Birli through the configuration.
05 Nov 2024
Migrating the processor from Garrawarla to Setonix.
14 Aug 2024
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
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.
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.
(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
Fix SQL bug in db.py
Jobs page data fetching logic has been updated
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
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.
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.
UI / UX changes: fixed in search button observation page , filtering issue in jobs page.
log in locally using email address.
fixing permission issues with readme.
13 December 2023
Fix delete request filter issues
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
Scratch Delivery option
Restrict SSO Login from ASVO CLI clients
Binding Scratch to SLURM
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.
v1 of Admin interface merged into main website for superusers.
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.
Updated calibration option text and tooltip.
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.
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.
Profile page: Show user ID, superuser status and MWA Member status.
Profile page: Show list of projects the user has special permissions for.
Observations (search) page: MWAX_BUFFER has been added to the "Correlator Mode" dropdown (and corresponding "ANY VCS" option.
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).
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
Various OS patches
SSL certificates updated
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.
Yellowbackend 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)
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Following user feedback, metafits files are now included with the output products of conversion jobs.
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.