GLAST LAT Project
Gamma-ray Large
Area Space
Telescope
LAT Operations Planning, 23 March 2005
GLAST Large Area Telescope
LAT Operations Planning
23 March 2005
Rob Cameron
rac@slac.stanford.edu
650-926-2989
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GLAST LAT Project
LAT Operations Planning, 23 March 2005
LAT Operations Planning
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Purpose of these meetings
– manage the ISOC
– coordinate activities involving and supporting LAT
operations (online and offline)
– coordinate resource allocations and resource planning for
LAT operations
– provide coherent planning for the transition from LAT
development and construction phase to operating phase
– Parallel the LAT Managers Face to Face meetings, and
eventually replace LAT F2F meetings after LAT Project
Office closes
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GLAST LAT Project
LAT Operations Planning, 23 March 2005
Participants
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Participants in these meetings
– Leads for major elements in the ISOC
• Online operations: commanding, health and safety
• Flight Software and Data Flow Lab support
• PVO + calibration and analysis methods
• Pipeline processing and delivery of LAT science data
• Data analysis software and tools
– Others as necessary
• GLAST Project Office
• Project Science
• LAT Operations Steering Committee
• SLAC management
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GLAST LAT Project
LAT Operations Planning, 23 March 2005
ISOC Organization
ISOC
Administrative
Support
Commanding,
Health & Safety
Flight Software
Performance V&O
Science Products
Science Analysis
Tools
Timeline
Planning
Code
Maintenance
Calibration
Level 1 CRs, gammas,
diagnostics
Simulation/Recon
Command
Generation
Code
V&V
Performance
Trending
Level 2
Transients, GRBs
Science Tools
Command V&V
Testbed
Maintenance
Standard Source
Monitoring
Pipeline
Operation
Infrastructure
Health & Safety
IRF Generation
Configuration
Tracking
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GLAST LAT Project
LAT Operations Planning, 23 March 2005
The ISOC in the LAT Collaboration
ISOC has close connections to LAT
Science Groups
– e.g. Working with Calibration
and Analysis Methods Group to
incorporate improvements to
event reconstruction into ISOC
processing and products
 ISOC has broad involvement in the
LAT collaboration
– e.g. instrument performance
analysis and tool development
are coordinated by the ISOC
across the collaboration
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GLAST LAT Project
LAT Operations Planning, 23 March 2005
SLAC Funding for ISOC
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Separation of costs for ISOC operations support and LAT
research scientists at SLAC
DOE applies $5M p.a. cap for ISOC operations
Numbers below are TBR
– staff not finalized (e.g. FSW, SDP)
– resource sharing with LAT Project not finalized
Rollup
FY05 Ops
Science
FY06 Ops
Science
FY07 Ops
Science
FY08 Ops
Science
FTE
17.40
13.10
29.95
13.60
29.15
13.60
28.15
13.50
MGT
1.00
-
2.50
0.50
2.50
0.50
2.50
0.50
CHS
8.10
2.00
9.80
2.00
9.00
2.00
8.00
2.00
FSW
2.90
0.50
9.00
0.50
9.00
0.50
9.00
0.50
PVO
1.00
5.10
1.00
5.10
1.00
5.10
1.00
5.00
SDP
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
SAS
4.40
5.50
6.40
5.50
6.40
5.50
6.40
5.50
SUP
-
-
1.25
-
1.25
-
1.25
-
3,770
2,189
4,719
2,397
4,532
2,481
4,540
2,545
$K (excl M&S)
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LAT Operations Planning, 23 March 2005
Logistics
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Meeting schedule
– Face to Face, or VRVS?
– Biweekly, weekly, monthly?
– Wednesdays, 2pm PT, or other?
Meeting format
– Standard round-table summaries?
– specific agenda items?
– both?
– Materials: Powerpoint,PDF,Confluence,URL?
Location
– “Kavli” conference room, 084/room 188
Mailing list(s)
Web site(s)
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GLAST LAT Project
LAT Operations Planning, 23 March 2005
Agenda Items
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LAT Configuration and Tracking Database
ISOC Facility areas
– research activity to be concentrated in new KIPAC building
– operations support to be concentrated in 084
– LAT Dataflow lab should stay in 084, where it is
– move and expansion of ISOC operations facility from 210 to
084 as KIPAC vacates 084
– office shuffles in 084?
Staffing plans for ISOC
Coordination with I&T
– support for I&T activities in 2005, 2006
– transition from I&T to ISOC-led operations
Ground tests, I&T support, and Data Challenges
– Unified support -> a model for the future?
Other items?
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