Name: EPICS Collaboration Meeting in October 2019
Start: 2019-10-05T00:30:00-04:00
End: 2019-10-05T18:35:00-04:00
Location: No location set

EPICS Collaboration Meeting in October 2019

Saturday, 5 October 2019 - 00:30

Monday, 30 September 2019
Tuesday, 1 October 2019
Wednesday, 2 October 2019
Thursday, 3 October 2019
Friday, 4 October 2019
Saturday, 5 October 2019

09:00 Welcome to the EPICS Workshop
Welcome to the EPICS Workshop
09:00 - 09:10
09:10
09:10 - 10:35
Contributions

09:10 Epics 7 - Andrew Johnson (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:30 Summary of the first EPICS Documentathon - Timo Korhonen (European Spallation Source ERIC)

09:50 CI for Code and Documentation - Ralph Lange (ITER Organization)

09:55 Epics Developers meeting Report - Ralph Lange (ITER Organization)

10:05 A User's Guide for EPICS Lua–Based Data Processing Subscription Update Filters - Jeffrey Hill (LANL)

10:25 Moving EPICS Base to Modern C++ - Martin Konrad (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)
10:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:35 - 11:05
11:05 Distributed I/O for Dynamic Equipment - Nathanael Maytan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Distributed I/O for Dynamic Equipment
- Nathanael Maytan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
11:05 - 11:25
There are currently two major controller-based systems in use at each beamline at NSLS-II. These are the Equipment Protection System and the Personnel Protection System. As the names imply, these systems work to protect equipment and personnel from hazards which could impact the safety, efficiency, usability, and integrity of the facility. A third controller-based solution (DIODE) was proposed to further enhance the reliability and maintainability of the beamline subsystems. This additional approach will better decouple the class of equipment which does not serve an equipment or personnel protection purpose, but which nonetheless requires full integration into the beamline control system. We can call this class of devices *Dynamic Equipment*. Historically, when Dynamic Equipment was integrated into a beamline, it would be lumped onto the EPS. There are two main reasons why the EPS was burdened this way: the EPS is much more mutable than the PPS, which is subject to stricter oversight and regulation, and because the EPS is typically more physically-distributed throughout the beamline. While using the EPS has been a simple solution to the growing need for control and automation of Dynamic Equipment, it is not without consequences. The inclusion of non-protective and non-protected equipment has added unnecessary complexity within the EPS. This has introduced an undesirable volatility which makes it difficult to keep the EPS fully characterized and documented. Such consequences come with real costs and impact, including an increased difficulty when troubleshooting, extra time or resources needed when integrating new equipment, and the overloading of I/O boxes in terms of amperage and heat dissipation. With DIODE, these problems can be subverted and even corrected. DIODE reduces the risk that comes from integrating Dynamic Equipment without introducing changes to the EPS. As a result, new devices can be added or modified at the beamline more quickly with less engineering and development overhead.
11:25 High Level Application Architecture Design for APS Upgrade - Guobao Shen (APS)
High Level Application Architecture Design for APS Upgrade
- Guobao Shen (APS)
11:25 - 11:45
A modular software platform is under active design and development for high-level applications to meet the requirements of the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APS-U) project. The design is based on modern software architecture, which has been used in many other accelerator facilities and has been demonstrated to be effective and stable. At APS-U, we are extending the architecture in order to efficiently commission, operate, and maintain the APS-U. Its open architecture provides good flexibility and scalability. This paper presents the current status of high-level application architecture design, implementation, and progress at APS-U.
11:45 EPICS development
EPICS development
11:45 - 13:00
Contributions

11:45 CS-Studio developers meeting report - Kunal Shroff (Brookhaven National Lab)

11:55 Just-in-Time EDM converter for Phoebus - Kay Kasemir (ORNL/SNS)

12:15 Display Builder Web Runtime - Kay Kasemir (ORNL/SNS)

12:35 Transitioning from CS Studio/Eclipse to CS Studio/Phoebus - Fredrik Söderberg (European Spallation Source, ERIC) Georg Weiss (European Spallation Source, ERIC)

12:55 Save-and-restore port to CS Studio/Phoebus - Georg Weiss (European Spallation Source)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 15:30
Contributions

14:30 areaDetector Data Compression I: NDPluginCodec, NDPluginPva, ImageJ - Mark Rivers (University of Chicago)

14:50 areaDetector Data Compression II: HDF5 - Mark Rivers (University of Chicago)

15:10 ADGenICam: areaDetector driver for GenICam cameras - Mark Rivers (University of Chicago)
15:30
15:30 - 16:10
Contributions

15:30 FRIBs diagnostics software development workflow and tools - Diego Omitto (Michigan State University)

15:35 retools: create PV aliases and info tags based on regular expressions - Bruno Martins (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

15:40 RTEMS with EPICS on VME2500 (QorIQ P2020) - Heinz Junkes (Fritz-Haber-Institut)

15:45 EPICS Support Module for Efficient UDP Communication With FPGAs - Martin Konrad (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

15:50 EPICS driver for health and status monitoring on MTCA.4 Crates - Miroslav Pavleski (Cosylab)

15:55 Building and Packaging EPICS modules with Conda - Joao Paulo Martins (ESS)

16:00 Systems Delivery And What Lurks Below: Legacy, Support, Users - Anton Derbenev (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
16:10 Celebrating 30 Years of EPICS - Henrik Carling (ESS) Richard Farnsworth (NSLS-II)
Celebrating 30 Years of EPICS
- Henrik Carling (ESS)
- Richard Farnsworth (NSLS-II)
16:10 - 16:20
Keeping things in control for 30 years.
16:20 Coffee
Coffee
16:20 - 16:50
16:50 EPICS Council Report - Henrik Carling (ESS)
EPICS Council Report
- Henrik Carling (ESS)
16:50 - 17:10
A report from the epics council
17:10 The Next EPICS Meeting - Richard Farnsworth (NSLS-II)
The Next EPICS Meeting
- Richard Farnsworth (NSLS-II)
17:10 - 17:20
Details on the next EPICS collaboration meeting
17:20

17:20 - 18:10