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Andrew Starritt (Australian Synchrotron), Mr Juan Guzman (CSIRO)18/10/2015, 09:10
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Andrew Johnson (APS)18/10/2015, 09:15Experiment ControlEPICS v3 and v4 status and roadmapGo to contribution page
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Mr Márcio Paduan Donadio (CNPEM / LNLS)18/10/2015, 09:30Experiment ControlPy4Syn is an open-source Python-based library for data acquisition, device manipulation, scan routines and other helper functions, created by LNLS staff. It offers high customization level for scans and data output, covering distinct techniques and facilities.Go to contribution page
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Dr Kay Kasemir (SNS)18/10/2015, 09:50Version 4 of the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) toolkit allows defining application-specific structured data types (pvData) and offers a network protocol for their efficient exchange (pvAccess). We evaluated V4 for the transport of neutron events from the detectors of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) to data acquisition and experiment monitoring systems. This...Go to contribution page
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Mr Sinisa Veseli (Argonne National Laboratory)18/10/2015, 10:10As the number of sites deploying and adopting EPICS Version 4 grows, so does the need to support PV Access from multiple languages. Especially important are the widely used scripting languages that tend to reduce both software development time and the learning curve for new users. In this paper we describe PvaPy, a Python API for the EPICS PV Access protocol and its accompanying structured...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jameson Rollins (California Institute of Technology)18/10/2015, 11:00The Advanced LIGO project has developed a new automation platform to handle the complicated automation needs of their newly upgraded detectors. Written entirely in Python and using EPICS for all communications, the platform, called Guardian, consists of a hierarchy of distributed state-machine automaton processes. Each automaton controls a particular sub-domain of the instrument, with the...Go to contribution page
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Heinz Junkes (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)18/10/2015, 11:20We run the Epics Archiver Appliance ( http://epicsarchiverap.sourceforge.net ) at the Fritz-Haber-Institut. The appliance runs right now as a cluster on two server systems. The servers are connected to different networks to collect all EPICS-PV-data from different experiments distributed in the whole institute. As long time storage (LTS) a storage gateway (StrongBox) is used to enable...Go to contribution page
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Dr Andreas Moll (Australian Synchrotron)18/10/2015, 11:40Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) gateways allow the (read-only) access of almost all of the process variables (PVs) available at the Australian Synchrotron from almost any network. An EPICS gateway is both a Channel Access server and a Channel Access client. Users connect to the server side, and the client side connects to Input Output Controllers (IOCs) as well as...Go to contribution page
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Mr Craig Haskins (CSIRO)18/10/2015, 12:00Low-level ControlsThe development of the 2nd generation ASKAP hardware and software introduced several enhancements to the EPICS 3.14 based Telescope Monitoring and Control System. We review the use of database & code generation tools, composite IOCs for creating a control and monitoring point hierarchy and the use of summary records for aggregating health information.Go to contribution page
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Mark Clift (Australian Synchrotron)18/10/2015, 13:30Low-level ControlsA new Asyn based model 3 EPICS driver for Galil products has been written. The software connects EPICS to all products in the Galil range, resulting in an easy way to implement beamline and other synchrotron control equipment. High bandwidth updates using UDP is supported enabling high performance analog and digital IO. Standard motor record point to point motion is supported as well as a...Go to contribution page
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Mr Euan Troup (CSIRO)18/10/2015, 13:50An EPICS soft IOC that running under Linux and doing significant I/O can need system and application tuning for NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) to use the hardware efficiently. I present an example of an IOC that uses 2x10Gb Ethernet for I/O and has been tuned for a current generation Dell server using Intel CPUs. The parameters for tuning the I/O are device interrupt CPU affinity and...Go to contribution page
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Mr Simon Ebner (Paul Scherrer Institut)18/10/2015, 14:10To simplify and speed up the development of Java Channel Access clients PSI Controls and Cosylab developed a modern pure Java Channel Access library called CA. The library overcomes several shortcomings of the current Java libraries based on out-dated JCA interfaces. It makes fully use of the Java type system, and easily supports synchronous and asynchronous operations for get, put and connect...Go to contribution page
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Mr Simon Gregor Ebner (Paul Scherrer Institute)18/10/2015, 14:30For many user as well as beamline and machine scientists Matlab is the tool of choice for data analysis and modelling. To facilitate the interaction of their code with the Epics control system the Controls group of PSI provides and supports a new Matlab Channel Access library. The library has no other dependencies than Matlab itself and can be used on all major operating systems. The usage of...Go to contribution page
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Andrew Rhyder (Australian Synchrotron)18/10/2015, 15:30With ongoing development of epicsQt, user focused EPICS graphical applications keep getting easier to develop. If you are simply dragging and dropping from the widget set provided with epicsQt, using other widget sets such as caQtDM, building your own widget plugins, or coding entire applications, epicsQt supports the creation of applications that focus on the user. The tools within the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Kay Kasemir (SNS)18/10/2015, 15:50CS-Studio's ‘BOY' may well be the most prominent component of the toolset. It’s used in production at many sites, its feature set is quite complete. Still, there is always room for improvement. The display builder project aims for the design and development of an upgrade that is highly compatible, specifically reads existing *.opi files, but with more modular code that removes our dependence...Go to contribution page
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Eric Berryman (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)18/10/2015, 16:10
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Andrew Starritt (Australian Synchrotron), Mr Juan Guzman (CSIRO)18/10/2015, 16:30
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Kanglin Xu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)At Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), all parameter logs are manually printed and archived by operators. As a result, searching parameter logs to find useful in- formation is difficult and time consuming. To deal with this problem, we introduce a new Integrated Relational Model of Installed Systems (IRMIS), a collaborative effort between several EPICS sites, with an ongoing subsystems...Go to contribution page
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Dr Michael Ritzert (Heidelberg University)Low-level ControlsThe Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a standardized interface to management functionalities of computer systems. The data provided typically includes the readings of monitoring sensors, such as fan speeds, temperatures, power consumption, etc. It is provided not only by servers, but also by uTCA crates that are often used to host an experiment's control and readout system....Go to contribution page
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