GIFTS Information Processing System
The GIFTS Information Processing System (GIPS) will require significant computing resources to be deployed under near real-time delivery constraints. On this page, a development timeline, given as a set of milestones and activities, is presented.
The Scanning High Resolution Interferometer-Sounder (S-HIS) is a UW SSEC instrument similar to the GIFTS, but currently operating in field experiments. Developing a pipeline for S-HIS as a prototype for the GIPS involves adding features to the S-HIS version of the pipeline, debugging them in the context of a candidate operating environment, and folding them into the GIPS pipeline once they have been proven. The S-HIS pipeline is therefore one step ahead of its GIPS counterpart, and experience from its development is used in the GIPS.
Contact Points
Ray Garcia <rayg@ssec.wisc.edu> -
principal maintainer
Maciek Smuga-Otto <maciek@ssec.wisc.edu
GIPS Milestones
February 22, 2005 |
GIPS demo: C++
pipeline that uses components and connectors to turn raw
complex interferograms into calibrated real spectra. |
S-HIS pipeline prototype: similar to GIPS demo, but includes more stages (assuring better accuracy of spectra), addresses audit metadata concerns. |
End of May, 2005 |
GIPS prototype: expanded C++ pipeline that includes more stages thus resulting in greater accuracy of the generated calibrated spectra, and addresses audit/metadata generation |
S-HIS pipeline refined: ready for initial field testing in SHIS experiments. |
End of August, 2005 |
GIPS refined: With feedback from Utah Space Dynamics Labs (SDL) and a better understanding of the instrument. This version will feature a scripting lanuage interface to facillitate instrument and algorithm ensemble testing. |
S-HIS pipeline mature: After a summer's worth of development and debugging stemming from field testing. |
End of December, 2005 |
GIPS parallel: First version of GIFTS pipeline that scales to large parallel implementation. |