Examples

Other examples of running CASA in parallel can be found here. Use task listpartition to see the content of the Multi-MS.

Start CASA on a single node with 16 engines

The first engine will be used as the MPIClient, where the user will see the CASA prompt. All other engines will be used as MPIServers and will process the MS in parallel.

mpicasa -n 16 casa --nogui --log2term

partition(vis='uid__A1__X33993.ms', outputvis='test.mms')

Run CASA on a group of nodes in a cluster

mpicasa -hostfile user_hostfile casa ....

partition(.....)

where user_hostfile contains the names of the nodes and the number of engines to use in each one of them. Example:

cvpost001, slots=5
cvpost002, slots=4

Create a Multi-MS of selected spws, partitioned per spw

The first example will create 4 Sub-MSs by default, if CASA is started with 5 engines. In the second example, use the numsubms parameter to force the creation of 8 Sub-MSs, with one spw per Sub-MS.

mpicasa -n 5 casa ...

# Ex 1: The following example will create 4 Sub-MSs by default

partition('uid001.ms', outpuvis='source.mms', spw='1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15', separationaxis='spw')

# Ex 2: force the creation of one spw per Sub-MS

partition('uid001.ms', outpuvis='source.mms', spw='1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15', separationaxis='spw', numsubms=8)

Create a Multi-MS with only a certain channel range of all spws but do not back up the FLAG column

partition('uid0001.ms', outputvis='fewchans.mms', spw='*:1~10', flagbackup=False)

Create a single-dish Multi-MS using the baseline axis only for auto-correlations

partition('uid0001.ms', outputvis='myuid.ms', createmms=True, separationaxis='baseline', antenna='*&&&')

NOTE: If CASA is started without mpicasa, it is still possible to create an MMS, but the processing will be done in serial.