Quick start

This Quick Start Guide walks through the steps to reduce data using the default setup.

1. Setting the workflow

a. After installation and while still in the installation virtual environment (if not, activate it again), start the EDPS dashboard by typing:

	edps-gui

The EDPS dashboard will start in a browser window.

dashboard

b. Optionally, before starting EDPS, one can specify new settings by pressing Help –> Settings (see here)

help_settings

c. On the browser window with the EDPS dashboard, press the button Start EDPS.

start_edps

d. Choose a pipeline workflow that matches the data to be reduced. The workflows offered in this selector depend on the installed pipelines.

select_workflow

2. Selecting the input data

a. Press Raw Data.

raw_data

b. Press Select Inputs. A selection window will appear that allows to select data that are stored on a local disk.

select_input

c. (Optional). Select the reduction target, configure the workflow parameter and specify the association preferences. Thise steps are optional. For more information please consult the full edps-gui guide here.

d. Press Create Datasets. A list of datasets appears, one line for each set of science data.

create_datasets

e. Choose the datasets that should be processed

send

and send them to the data reduction queue by pressing Submit to Reduction Queue. Note that this action does not start the reduction automatically.

3. Start the reduction

a. Press Reduction Queue.

processing_queue

b. (Optional). Configure the workflow and recipe parameters by pressing the wheel button to open the configuration editor.

c. Press the Reduce button. The selected data will now be processed with the default parameters.

reduce

Congratulations! You reduced your first data with the EDPS dashboard! All the reduced data are saved in the EDPS_data directory specified when executing edps-gui for the first time.

3. Save the final data (Optional).

All the products (final and intermediate) of all reduced configuration for all datasets are saved into the EDPS_data directory. In addition, EDPS offers the possibility to “archive” a desired reduction (e.g., the one that gives the best results) by “exporting” only the final reduction products into another location.

Select the desired reduced configurations and press the Archive button. This configuration disappears from the Reduction Queue and appear in the tab Reduction Archive.

The content of the “Reduction Archive”, e.g. the list of archived reductions, can be inspected by pressing the Reduction Archive tab.

archive

Each configuration and its jobs can be inspected, unarchived and eventually deleted. In order to copy the final products into a desired location, press the Export button. A window will appear allowing

  • to select all or just the last configuration for the selected datasets

  • to specify a directory where to save the files. A check is done

Press Export to save the files. The types of files to copy depend on each workflow. Typically, only most important files of the scientific tasks are saved. Other files can be found in the EDPS_data directory. The operation can take several minutes, depending on the sizes of the files. The default structure is <dataset_name>/<reduction_time_stamp>/<category>.fits.

archive2

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