# Presentation: 030349

## GSSC Report

**David Band (GSSC/JCA-UMBC)**

## Outline

**Personnel**
**Documents**
**Other GSSC Topics at Meeting**
**GLAST User Support**
**Software**

## GSSC Personnel

**Jay Norris ****	****— GSSC manager**
**Scientists**
**Robin Corbet (75%) ****	****— Operations Section Manager**
**Dave Davis ****	****— Data Archive / SW Section Manager**
**David Band****	****— User Support Section Manager**
**Masaharu Hirayama****	****— LAT scientist; LAT pulsar tools**
**Jerry Bonnell****	****— CALDB; LAT GRB tools**
**Rita Sambruna (50%)****	****— SAE Documentation**
**Jim Chiang****	****— LAT ambassador (@ SLAC); Likelihood tool**
**Valerie Connaughton****	****— GBM ambassador (@ NSSTC); GBM tools**
**Scientific Programmers**
**James Peachey (75%)****	****— Code Co-Architect (w/ LAT’s Toby Burnett)**
**Tom Stephens****	****— Software Manager/Test Manager**
**Don Horner****	****— Data Ingest, Testing**
**Guiseppe Romeo (50%)****	****— Operations (Tako, Utilities)**
**Marilyn Mix (50%)****	****— Operations (Tako, MOC interface)**
**Larry Brown (25%) ****	****— C++ Programmer, SAE SW**
**New Hire #1****	****— Operations/User Support **
**New Hire #2****	****— SAE**
**Support**
**Sandy Barnes (50%)****	****— Administrative Assistant**
**JD Myers (50%)****	****— Webmaster; User Support**
**Beth Weinstein (0% salary)****	****— Systems Intern**

## Personnel Changes (since 8/04)

**Additions:**
**Don Horner—programmer (data ingest)/testing**
**Rita Sambruna (50%)—scientist (SAE documentation)**
**Beth Weinstein—systems intern (operations)**
**Departures:**
**Dirk Petry—Test manager**
**Bob Schaefer—SW manager**

## Documents

**PDMP—major revision after GUC meeting of 8/04, but much polishing required**
**GSSC Functional Requirements Document—major revision separating the description of GSSC functions and actual functional requirements, as requested by the Project; the document will be submitted to the Project CCB.**
**The Science Data Products ICD continues to mature; major gaps:**
**The precise contents of the list of LAT events transferred from the LISOC to the GSSC awaits the reconstruction studies associated with DC2.**
**The quantities describing the LAT’s status not defined.**
**Many detailed design documents have been created; see http://glast.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/dev/current_documents/**

## GSSC Topics at Meeting

**Masa demo’ed the pulsar tools.**
**In the presentation after lunch we will present some topics for which we would like the GUC’s approval:**
**User Support Drivers for Tool Release**
**Review of GI Proposal Tools**
**Many GSSC topics will be covered by GUC Action Items:**
**AI#8—SAE analysis thread (today—pulsar tools)**
**AI#10a—PDMP**
**AI#12—GUC beta-testing of SAE tools**
**AI#13—Communications with scientific community**
**AI#14—End-to-end GLAST narrative**
**AI#15—Proposal tools**
**AI#17—Launch±1 year science schedule**
**AI#18—Methodology for simple period search tool for SAE**
**AI#24—Technical evaluation of proposals**

## GLAST User Support (GUS)

**A GUS software design review (8/8/05) initiated a discussion of the interfaces with other sections.  The resulting changes (e.g., some posting software extracts data from databases, and is not passed data directly) led to a revision of the tool list (e.g., some functions were redistributed, tools were combined or split).  The relevant section of the GSSC Design Document is being revised and expanded into a detailed design document.**
**The software will be released in a GI proposal release (11/1/06) and a user support tools release (6/6/07); most of the user support tools are needed only at launch, or later.  Most tools will be ready earlier.**
**GUS is working with the SAE team on software documentation.**

## GLAST User Support (GUS), cont.

**The GSSC will present 3 posters at the January AAS meeting (general GSSC, data provided users, SAE); 8 GLAST abstracts were submitted.**
**3 abstracts were submitted for the Swift meeting at the end of November (all on the GLAST’s burst capabilities).**

## GSSC Involvement in SAE

**Checkout 3 completed (mini-DC to put the available tools through their paces) **
**3 build cycles have been completed allowing us to finish: **
**Burst Fit tool**
**Pulsar tools:**
**Documentation and**
**Pulsar demodulation**
**Infrastructure improvements**

## Data Analysis and Science Support (DASS)

**Release 3 done: **
**Support of GRT #4**
**Release 4 done:**
**Support for GRT #3 (GRT 3 & 4 were swapped)**
**Preparations for GRT #5 (science products ingest) is well underway**

## Operations

**Robin Corbet will discus observation scheduling next.**