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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:47:23
Who: Tim Conrow
Subject:  Re: Draft of SOC ops responsibilities
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A suitable period for comment having elapsed, I've placed a lightly modified
version of the SOC ops responsibilities/priorities in

 /proj/wire/doc/soc.priorities

and attached it here. Further discussion is, I suppose, unavaoidable, but since
no one was outraged at the last version, let's work to it for awhile.

-- Tim

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-- Tim Conrow tim@ipac.caltech.edu work:626-397-9578 fax:626-397-7354
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1) The IOC plan defines;
   a) which ST members are responsible for analyzing various data
      segments and who the cognizent DA analyst is;
   b) who the cognizent DA analyst is for the various DA s/w
      components.

2) DA Ops cogE's (those with access to the 'wops' account) will
   be responsible for running the initial pipeline or confirming
   that an automatic start-up process has done so.

3) Pipeline reruns must be approved by:
   a) the PI or his designate for survey data;
   b) the AI team lead for AI-team specific data;
   c) the lead ST member of each ancillary program for ancillary
      observations;
   d) the responsible ST lead for various IOC and calibration
      observations.

3.1) Reruns can be cutoff or limited in number by the PI or SOC
     Manager if they become so numerous as to be an unacceptable
     burden on SOC personnel.

4) DA Ops cogE's will perform any requested reruns on a time
   available basis, with runs and QC of newly arrived data taking
   priority, unless a particular rerun has been explicitly
   elevated in priority by the PI.

5) ST prioritized duties (on the downlink side) are:
   a) Analyzing instrument data or telemetry to confirm the
      health of the instrument and S/C;
   b) Analysis of instrument characterization and calibration
      observations;
   c) Assisting with QC tasks when a backlog exists or the DA
      team is overwhelmed;
   d) Assigning final segment quality, including accept/reject
      decisions, and requesting reruns
   e) Science.

6) DA engineer prioritized duties are, for non-AI data:
   a) Analysis of the Input process and inventory of arriving
      vs. expected data;
   b) Completing primary pipeline runs or confirming completion
      of the automated process -- Ops cogE's only;
   c) Confirming that S/W cogE's processes are running correctly;
   d) Generation of QC data and H/K tlm reports sufficient for
      confirming instrument and S/C health;
   e) Full segment pipeline QC;
   f) Assisting AI cogE's with QC'ing AI data on a time-available
      basis;
   g) Doing pipeline reruns -- Ops cogE's only;
   h) Running manual multi-segment or area coadds;
   i) S/W upgrades;
   j) Assisting ST members with generating science results or
      otherwise having fun looking at the data.

7) The AI cogE's priorities are as 6) above but specifically for
   AI observations and only after that, on a time available
   basis, for non-AI observations. Also, change a) to read
   a) Inventory of arriving data to keep track of which AI segments
      for each observer have been completed and analysis of the Input
      process.

8) Certain designated DA engineers will be responsible for SOC
   resource monitoring, backups, DBMS integrity checking and
   asundry other routine tasks not related to data analysis.

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