Astronomical Image Processing System 31DEC18 Version

The 31DEC18 version of AIPS is no longer available. It will not change even for serious errors, although it was patched in 2019. You may make these patches by running the MNJ. Do not attempt to install this version. Ignore the advice below especially A Guide to the Install Wizard See the special Mac installation for information specific to installations on MacIntosh OS/X systems. Note that 31DEC18 is available both as a text installation (compilations done on your computer) or as a binary installation (compilations done by us). The former should work on all computers and requires much smaller downloads. But the latter can offer superior performance especially for Macs and Intel Linux. Given problems with compilers, the binary installation is likely to be the best choice unless you plan local development of AIPS code. Note that we have resolved many of the issues raised by modern gfortran compilers, so compiling your own version is not likely to be too difficult. In fact the LNX64 binary version is now compiled with gfortran 6.3. Even the performance discrepancies have mostly disappeared. Note too that the Mac binary version compiled with the old Intel compiler is for 32-bit computers at Mac OS 10.7 or greater.

Table of Contents

• You WILL want a Midnight Job!
• What's New in 31DEC18
• Distribution Statistics

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You WILL want a Midnight Job!

If your site has a need for the current version of AIPS with updates via the Internet and the so-called midnight job, Read this information. It has additional information and instructions. Or Eric Greisen for further information.

Since releases of AIPS are planned to be only on an annual basis, the midnight job (now with easier setup and NO ssh) will be the only way for AIPS users outside of NRAO to avail themselves in a timely fashion of whatever enhancements, changes, or new functionality we add to Classic AIPS.

The MNJ is the only way in which you can fetch changes to your version of AIPS, other than a full re-installation. It works for both binary and text installations and is sometimes useful even for the "frozen" version of AIPS, since the most recent frozen version will be patched to correct egregious errors.

WHATSNEW in 31DEC18 AIPS

The final report on 31DEC18 is available as 31DEC18 AIPSLetter dated 31 December 2018 (PS, 8022909 bytes). It is also available gzipped, (1008277 bytes) and PDF, (244403 bytes). The 6-month progress report on 31DEC18 is available as 31DEC18 AIPSLetter dated 30 June 2018 (PS, 867221 bytes). It is also available gzipped (401469 bytes) and PDF, (140662 bytes).

The final report on 31DEC17 is available as 31DEC17 AIPSLetter dated 30 December 2017 (PS, 904027 bytes). It is also available gzipped (420144 bytes) and PDF, (159226 bytes). The 6-month progress report on 31DEC17 is available as 31DEC17 AIPSLetter dated 30 June 2017 (PS, 902569 bytes). It is also available gzipped (419491 bytes) and PDF, (159212 bytes).

The final report on 31DEC16 is available as 31DEC16 AIPSLetter dated 31 December 2016 (PS, 957655 bytes). It is also available gzipped, (431102 bytes) and PDF, (185628 bytes). The 6-month progress report on 31DEC16 is available as 31DEC16 AIPSLetter dated 30 June 2016 (PS, 907865 bytes). It is also available gzipped (414726 bytes) and PDF, (156135 bytes).

The final report on 31DEC15 is available as 31DEC15 AIPSLetter dated 31 December 2015 (PS, 1001941 bytes). It is also available gzipped, (451446 bytes) and PDF, (203207 bytes). The 6-month progress report on 31DEC15 is available as 31DEC15 AIPSLetter dated 30 June 2015 (PS, 914635 bytes). It is also available gzipped (417682 bytes) and PDF, (169427 bytes).

The final report on 31DEC14 is available as 31DEC14 AIPSLetter dated 31 December 2014 (PS, 916765 bytes). It is also available gzipped, (425784 bytes) and PDF, (160987 bytes). The 6-month progress report on 31DEC14 is available as 31DEC14 AIPSLetter dated 30 June 2014 (PS, 765445 bytes). It is also available gzipped (329422 bytes) and PDF, (167439 bytes).

The final report on 31DEC13 is available as 31DEC13 AIPSLetter dated 31 December 2013 (PS, 913097 bytes). It is also available gzipped, (396159 bytes) and PDF, (196866 bytes). The 6-month progress report on 31DEC13 is available as 31DEC13 AIPSLetter dated 30 June 2013 (PS, 3301312 bytes). It is also available gzipped (453027 bytes) and PDF, (255543 bytes).

Distribution Statistics

Tools to monitor shipments of the tar balls and the binary releases as well as accesses of the cvs code maintenance system have been created and run since Spring 2003. We estimate "sites" by counting unique IP addresses. In each of the totals, an individual IP address is counted only once. In general, an IP address is used by only one user, but more than one IP address will be used by those users that use dial-up connections. Thus, these totals are a modest over-estimate. However, they are an underestimate of the number of computers used for AIPS since at many institutions a single IP address is used to provide AIPS to a number of computers. The table below shows the totals in various categories and has links to the plots of the cumulative totals. Note that the TST and NEW numbers for 2003 are for only part of the year as, of course, are all the 2018 numbers. These are indicated by the asterisk. The totals for TST and NEW include both binary and tar-ball downloads. The binary totals include binary downloads and binary MNJ accesses.

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