jive5ab program
JOINT INSTITUTE FOR VLBI IN EUROPE
OUDE HOOGEVEENSEDIJK 4, DWINGELOO
02 April 2020
TO: Distribution
FROM: Harro Verkouter
SUBJECT: jive5ab command set version 1.11 (jive5ab 2.4 and up)
Telephone: +31 (0) 592 596500
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jive5ab program
The commands detailed in this memo are implemented by a program named jive5ab and control the DIM functionality of the three types of Mark5 DIM VLBI data acquisition systems designed by MIT Haystack 1: the Mark5A, B and C.
The program offers a limited set of DIM services on Mark5B DOM systems and hardware agnostic DIM services (including high-speed network packet capture) on regular computer systems, including Mark6 and FlexBuff.
In addition to this, jive5ab offers non-DIM and (real-time) e-VLBI functionality on all systems. jive5ab is fully compatible with 32- and 64-bit operating systems and can be compiled/run on 32- or 64-bit POSIX/Intel® based systems, e.g. Linux (Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu) or Mac OSX.
The jive5ab binary distribution will run on all systems 2
and auto-detects the hardware it is running on. Therefore this command set document will encompass all of the Mark5A, B, C and generic command sets. jive5ab will choose the appropriate one to support at runtime.
jive5ab implements the following DIM Command Set revisions: Mark5A v2.73, Mark5B v1.12 and Mark5C v1.0.
Note: sometimes jive5ab had to deviate from or had to choose one of multiple interpretations of commands found in the official Command Sets. All known deviations with respect to MIT Haystack software will be specifically documented <font color=”red”> and clearly marked in red</font>.
Commands that are not part of the MIT Haystack Mark5A, 5B, or 5C command sets are documented like normal commands; highlighting them in red or any other visually distinctive way would be too distractive, given the number of them. Some commands were introduced only in later versions than 2.4.0. Where appropriate, these occurrences and their earliest appearance will be indicated.
We would like to thank Alan R. Whitney and Chester Ruszczyk from MIT Haystack observatory for making the original documentation source documents for the Mark5 command sets available
a real time- and life saver. [3]_ :
http://www.haystack.mit.edu/tech/vlbi/mark5/index.html [4]_: provided OS and Conduant SDK versions are compatible with where the binary was compiled on and linked with
- 1
“Packet reordering metrics” - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4737.txt
- 2
http://www.haystack.mit.edu/tech/vlbi/mark5/mark5_memos/100.pdf