Welcome to the documentation for IRIS radio astronomy

IRIS is UK national high-performance computing infrastructure and this site will document how to use it to carry out radio astronomy workflows.

Note

This project is under construction.

Contents

• Signing up for Dirac/HPC Resources
  • Registering on SAFE
  • Registering on DiRAC
  • Logging on to Cambridge HPC
• Use of Singularity
  • Before starting
  • Basic use
  • Binding file systems
  • Building an image
• Cambridge CSD3 cheat sheet
  • Login
  • Work area
  • Jobs
  • Modules
• Slurm Cheat Sheet
  • Account Balance
  • Getting Cluster Info
  • Monitoring Jobs
  • Controlling Jobs
• VLA Basic Imaging
  • Getting Started
  • Flagging
  • Calibration
  • Imaging
  • Running as a Script
  • Running the script as a Slurm job on Cambridge CSD3
• Parallel Processing
  • Getting Started
  • Create the slurm script
  • Create the CASA script
  • Running the scripts
• Using Casa’s Plotms
  • Building the Singularity Container
  • Create the slurm script
  • Create the CASA script
  • Running the scripts
  • Generating Single Plots
• Using the CASA Toolkit
  • Getting Started
  • Amp_v_Time.py
  • Baselines.py
  • Dirty_Image.py
• LOFAR processing with ddf-pipeline
  • Setup
  • Interactive use
  • Use in jobs
  • Self-calibration
• MeerKAT Point Source Catalog
  • Building the Singularity Container
  • Creating Python Scripts to Run Slurm
  • Creating Slurm Job Submission file
  • Best Practice Notes
  • Running MeerKAT Data Processing
  • File Setup
  • Process Background
  • Process Photometric Catalog
  • Process Spectral Indices and Clean Up Catalog
  • Merging Catalogs