DKIST General
Operational Status
DKIST is in week 4 of engineering period 2024e.
Events
The AURA Board meeting was held Dec. 3-4 in Washington DC. The NSO Director and DKIST Acting Associate Director attended.
Personnel
The VTF team that is currently at the summit has successfully tested control of the first etalon under sun-ligh conditions. Thank you to all who have contributed whether located in Boulder or on Maui!! Congratulations!
SciOps and OpsTools team
Accomplishments
The Cycle 3 Experiment Generation process officially started on December 02. Ten DKIST scientists are assigned to create, review, and test the experiments for Cycle 3. The plan is to have all the experiments available for summit execution before the end of February 2025.
Release of the SOS Daily Report form (V3) with some improvements to log activities during days in an observing window.
Program scientist and manager working on Conceptual Operations (ConOps) in preparation for the NSF ConOps review in February 2025.
TechOps team
Accomplishments
InstOps team
Accomplishments
Data Center team
Accomplishments
Enhanced automated processing test infrastructure with:
self service stack reset
additional L1 regression test pipeline to conditionally include long running tests based on deployment risk
Began design process for capturing calibration products for trend analysis and as metadata for dataset distribution.
Added out of the box Ceph Metrics and created logic functions to add Ceph metrics to the new Observability Framework
EHS team
Accomplishments
Prepared and submitted the bi-monthly DKIST Safety and Health report.