Arguments

The ramp fitting step has three optional arguments that can be set by the user:

• --save_opt: A True/False value that specifies whether to write the optional output product. Default is False.

• --opt_name: A string that can be used to override the default name for the optional output product.

• --int_name: A string that can be used to override the default name for the per-integration product.

• --suppress_one_group: A boolean to suppress computations for saturated ramps with only one good (unsaturated) sample. The default is set to True to suppress these computations, which will compute all values for the ramp the same as if the entire ramp were saturated.

• --maximum_cores: The number of available cores that will be used for multi-processing in this step. The default value is ‘1’ which does not use multi-processing. The other options are either an integer, ‘quarter’, ‘half’, and ‘all’. Note that these fractions refer to the total available cores and on most CPUs these include physical and virtual cores. The clock time for the step is reduced almost linearly by the number of physical cores used on all machines. For example, on an Intel CPU with six real cores and six virtual cores, setting maximum_cores to ‘half’ results in a decrease of a factor of six in the clock time for the step to run. Depending on the system, the clock time can also decrease even more with maximum_cores is set to ‘all’. Setting the number of cores to an integer can be useful when running on machines with a large number of cores where the user is limited in how many cores they can use.