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EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2010 Highlights

A summary of EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2010 in Aix-en-Provence, featuring 115 participants from 15 countries. Fusion participants from ITER parties, EPICS success stories, Control System Studio, software management, and configuration data management were discussed. Collaboration, shared resources, and future improvements were emphasized.

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EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2010 Highlights

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  1. EPICS Collaboration MeetingSpring 2010 – Aix-en-ProvenceHighlights Franck Di Maio, with contributions from Bob Dalesio & Wolf-Dieter Klotz

  2. Numbers Approx: • 115 Participants • 50 Affiliations • 15 countries • Lunch at 12:30 We are very proud to have hosted this meeting! • Fusion participants from all the ITER parties (China, Europe, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, USA). • Very strong representation of the EPICS community. • EPICS is a success story in fusion, telescopes, experimental control accelerator control and medical facility. • A reference world-wide collaboration for ITER.

  3. Control System Studio • Created at DESY several years ago • Now, ORNL and DESY tools provides a very strong basis for operator tools and are used in control rooms. • ITER, BNL, and APS have evaluated what is there and found enough functionality and promise to start to put resources into this. • Will likely provide the next generation platform for operator applications. • Maintain collaborative work! • Shared sources • Shared interfaces • Shared components

  4. Software Management • Tests! • Unit tests • Regression test • Automatic built • Automated build process (Hudson) • Source management • Distributed version control (Mercurial, Bazaar) • A large effort in many labs (optimization) • Automated regression tests @ Diamond • CSS build process @ BNL • EPICS base build and test @ APS & Diamond • EPICS RPMS build process @ ITER • SourceForge!

  5. EPICS • Support & improvement continue! • completing event filtering on the server side, • solidifying existing capabilities, • standardizing the interfaces to hardware as in the AynPortDriver, • We have still not gone past version 3.1.4.16 (pi)

  6. Configuration data management • Relational DB usage continues to increase: • IRMIS -> VDCT • ChannelFinder • RDB in CSS • ITER SDD • Will configuration data management with RDB replace configuration text files in EPICS?

  7. MDS+ • A new keyword for non-fusion EPICS community. • A widely used data system in the fusion community. • A demonstration @ RFX: • How EPICS tools and fusion ones can co-exist • How data acquisition can be integrated with machine control.

  8. pvData, pvAccess, javaIOC, pvService • The new infrastructure for high-level applications continues to develop • C++ servers will be possible soon with direct interface to IOC.

  9. And a lot of other New Stuff • KSTAR Widget Toolkit: Qt-based, nice & powerful. • ITER distribution & developments. • AsynPortDriver: a very powerful framework • VDCT vs 3 • Finite State Machine record • Data flavoring & Filtering with CA. • Python + Jython • GDA extended • Hypertable • etc… • Imagine combinations… ex: AsynPortDriver + pvService/C++ + pvData + CSS/KWT/Jython

  10. Improvements Welcome • Python CA (Xiaoqiang Wang) • JCA-E library (Simon Ebner) • VDCT update • …

  11. Next • On-line: mailing lists, Shared repositories (SourceForge), etc. • Autumn EPICS collaboration meeting… October 11-14th @ BNL

  12. Thanks for coming!

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