1. PALM-3000 1 PALM-3000 project status 31 Jan. 2008 COO All-Hands Mtg. Recent Milestones Requirements review on 12 Nov. 2007. AO system offline for maintenance starting 29 Nov. 2007. Current Activities Relayout of AO optical bench for P1640 and SWIFT (Roberts, Burruss, Bui) –On schedule. Recommissioning with PHARO planned for April 9. High-order Wavefront Sensor design (Baranec) –Received CCD-50 camera. Will be setting up testbed in lab. Real-time wavefront reconstructor computer design (Truong, Guiwits) –Design completed, beginning hardware integration (two 10-PC clusters). Software architecture definition (Truong, Cromer, Angione) –In progress. Electronics rack design (Guiwits, Croner, Cromer) Schedule 3326 actuator Xinetics DM arrives Aug. 2008. Still on track for upgrade to PALM-3000 in Dec. 2009 - April 2010.

2. PALM-3000 Interim (3/08-11/09) AO bench layout

3. PALM-3000 Real-time computer design HOWFS DM 3326 DM 349 LOWFS DM 3326 Driver DM 349 Driver Cass Cage Computer Room Data Room fiber