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EPICS Collaboration Meeting, Spring 2012: Program

EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2012

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Program

Monday, April 23, 2012
Session 1: EPICS Training 
Location: Kavli Auditorium, Bldg. 51 
Chairperson: Ernest Williams, SLAC 
Please contact the chairman if you would like to attend 
ernesto@slac.stanford.edu
08:00amRegistration
09:00amWelcome 
- Ernest Williams
09:30amIntroduction to EPICS 
- Matt Boyes
10:30amCoffee Break
11:00amEPICS Process Database 
- Stephanie Allison
12:30pmLunch - SLAC Cafeteria
01:30pmEPICS Sequencer 
- Kuhkee Kim
02:30pmCoffee Break
03:00pmHow to write EPICS Device/Driver Support 
- Till Straumann
04:30pmHow to write an EPICS channel access client 
- Till Straumann
05:00pmEPICS Training Session ends

Monday, April 23, 2012

Session 2: EPICS V4 Working Group meeting 
Location: Bldg 48 Redwood A 
Session Chair: Bob Dalesio, BNL 
Please contact the chairman if you would like to attend.  dalesio@bnl.gov

09:30amEPICS V4 Working Group meeting
 Issues - Marty Kraimer
 Issues - Matej Sekoranja
 Normative Types
 Type Server - Nikolay Malitsky
10:30amCoffee Break
11:00amEPICS V.4 Core (cont.)
12:30pmLunch
01:30pmServices Development Status - Greg White
 Directory Service
 Multi Channel Array
 Tables from Relational Database
 Archiver
02:30pmCoffee Break
03:00pmSpecific - model, orbit, unit conversion
05:30pmWorkshop ends

Monday, April 23, 2012

Session 3: EPICS asyn Training 
Location: Bldg 48 Redwood C & D 
Session Chair: Mark Rivers, Univ. of Chicago 
Please contact the chairman if you would like to attend. rivers@cars.uchicago.edu

09:30amEPICS asyn Training
10:30amCoffee Break
11:00amWriting an asyn driver tutorial
12:30pmSource code for the measComp

Monday, April 23, 2012

Session 4: Client applications for beamline experimental control 
Location: Bldg 48 Redwood B 
Session Chair: Rob Walton, Diamond 
Please contact the chairman if you would like to attend. rob.walton@diamond.ac.uk

01:30pmClient applications for beamline 
experimental control
02:30pmCoffee Break
05:00pmSession ends


 

Monday, April 23, 2012 
 

Workshops - Break-out Session 4 
Bldg 48 Redwood D

09:00amQT Workshop
05:00pmWorkshop ends

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Session 1: EPICS CSS Training 
Location: Kavli Auditorium, Bldg. 51 
Chairperson: Xihui Chen, ORNL 
Please contact the chairman if you would like to attend 
 chenx1@ornl.gov
08:00amCoffee, Refreshments
09:00amControl System Studio (CSS) Introduction  
- Kay Kasemir
09:15amStarting CSS, First Steps:  Welcome, Views, Perspectives, Online Help, Preferences
09:30amProbe, Data Browser, PV Tree
10:00amWorkspaces, Shared Folders
10:30amCoffee Break
11:00amCSS Boy: Tutorial
12:30pmLunch - SLAC Cafeteria
01:30pmpvManager
02:00pmDevelopment Setup:  Import Sources
02:10pmBOY:  Creating Widgerts, Custom Script Utility
02:30pmCoffee Break
03:00pmHierarchical Preferences
03:15pmEclipse Products, Features, Plugins, Extension Points
03:30pmArchive System
04:00pmBEAST
04:30pmCSS Extension Points:  Example for Providing Logbook Support
05:00pmAdjorn

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Session 2: Archiver Working Group meeting 
Location: Bldg 48 Redwood B 
Chairperson: Murali Shankar, SLAC 
Please contact the chairman if you would like to attend. mshankar@slac.stanford.edu

 

09:00amArchiver Working Group meeting
10:30amCoffee Break
11:00amArchiver Workshop (cont.)
12:30pmLunch

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Session 3: Timing Workshop 
Location: Bldg 48 Redwood B 
Chairperson: Patrick Krejcik, SLAC 
Please contact the chairman if you would like to attend. pkr@slac.stanford.edu

 

01:30pmTiming Workshop  
- P. Krejcik
02:00pmLCLS Timing 
- J. Dutsatko
02:30pmBNL Driver 
- M. Davidsaver
03:00pmLANL  
- E. Bjorklund
03:30pmLANL2 
-E. Bjorklund
04:00pmLCLS Timing Software 
- K. Kim
04:30pmMRF Timing and Plans 
- J. Pietarinen

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Session 4: EPICS V4 Working Group meeting 
Location: Bldg 48 Redwood A 
Session Chair: Bob Dalesio, BNL 
Please contact the chairman if you would like to attend. dalesio@bnl.gov

 

09:00amEPICS V4 Working Group meeting
10:30amCoffee Break
12:30pmLunch
02:30pmCoffee Break
05:00pmWorkshop ends

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Session 5: QT Workshop 
Location: Bldg 48 Redwood C & D 
Chairperson: Murali Shankar, SLAC 
Please contact the chairman if you would like to attend. mshankar@slac.stanford.edu

 

01:30pmIntro 
- Andrew Johnson
03:00pmBackground/Training 
- Andrew Rhyder
03:30pmCreating quicfk/simple QT-based GUIs in Python 
- Pete Jemian 
QT GUI and IDE development 
- Andrew Rhyder
04:00pmA Cute Experience in Application Development 
- Jan Chrin
04:30pmQT at the Canadian LightSource - Glen Wright

 

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

EPICS Collaboration Meeting
07:30amRegistration
08:30amWelcome to SLAC 
 - Tom Himel, Enzo Carrone, SLAC
Session 1: Status Talks (Chair: Ernest Williams) 
Talks are 10 min. with 5 min. Q & A
09:00amProject Status SLAC ICD 
- Debbie Rogind, SLAC
09:15amDESY/XFEL Status 
- Matthias Clausen, DESY
09:30amLCLS Photon Controls Status Update 
- Bruce Hill, SLAC
09:45amStatus of US ITER Controls Effort 
- Bill DeVan, US ITER/ORNL
10:00amStatus of SuperKEKB Control System 
- Tatsuro Nakamura, KEK
10:15amOpen XAL Update 
- Thomas Pelaia, ORNL
10:30amBreak
Session 2: Tools (Chair: Murali Shankar) 
Talks are 10 min. with 5 min. Q & A
11:00amArchiver Appliance Update 
- Murali Shankar, SLAC
11:15amWhat's New for Boy/Beast 
- Kay Kasemir, ORNL
11:30amScan Engine for CSS 
- Kay Kasemir, ORNL
11:45amDeployment of CSS Boy 
- Pete Jemian, APS
12:00pmDevelopment and Deployment of CSS 
- Takashi Nakamoto, Cosylab
12:15pmEPICS and CSS BOY in the Australian Square Kilometer Array 
- Craig Haskins, CSIRO
12:30pmLunch - SLAC Cafeteria
Session 3: Tools (Chair: Mike Zelazny) 
Talks are 10 min. with 5 min. Q & A
02:00pmBNL Tool Strategy 
- Gabriele Carcassi, BNL
02:15pmpvManager and Graphene (BNL Core Client Technologies) - Gabriele Carcassi, BNL
02:30pmAccelUtils 
- Gabriele Carcassi, BNL
02:45pmChannelFinder 
- Kunal Shroff, BNL
03:00pmOlog 
- Eric Berryman/Kunal Shroff, BNL
03:15pmRDB Application Working Group 
- Bob Dalesio/Eric Berryman, BNL
03:30pmCoffee Break
Session 4: Tools (Chair: Debbie Rogind) 
Talks are 15 min. with 5 min. Q & A
04:00pmChannelFinder CSS Integration 
- Gabriele Carcassi, BNL
04:20pmOlog CSS Integration 
- Kunal Shroff, BNL
04:40pmCSS for Alarm Handler 
- Joerg Penning, DESY
05:00pmWeb OPI - Bring BOY OPI to the Web  
- Xihui Chen, ORNL
05:20pmCSS:  Where do we want to go? 
- Gabriele Carcassi, BNL

 

Thursday, April 26, 2012

08:00amRegistration
Session 1: DAQ/Exp. (Chair: Debbie Rogind) 
Talks are 10 min. with 5 min. Q & A
09:00amCLS Beamline Data Acquisition 
- Elder Matias, CLS
09:15amTrajectory Scanning with Area Detector in OpenGDA 
- Rob Walton, Diamond
09:30amNSLS II Plans for Experiment Control 
- Daron Chabot, BNL
09:45amThe MEXperience, Getting to Grips with MEX-Files 
- Jan Chrin, PSI
10:00amUpdate on areaDetector: SW w/2D Detectors 
- Mark Rivers, University of Chicago
10:15amNew C++ Model for EPICS Motor Device and Driver Support 
- Mark Rivers, University of Chicago
10:30amCoffee Break
Session 2: QT (Chair: Diane Fairley) 
Talks are 10 min. with 5 min. Q & A
11:00amAn EPICS Display Manager with QT 
- Anton Christian Mezger, PSI
11:15amEPICS QT Framework at Austrialian Synchrotron 
- Andrew Rhyder, Australian Synchrotron
11:30amQT at CLS 
- Glen Wright, CLS
11:45pmEPICS QT Initiative 
- Andrew Johnson, ANL
12:00pmGigE Viewer - Using PyQT 
- Pavel Stoffel, SLAC
12:15pmA Cute Experience in Application Development 
- Jan Chrin, PSI
12:30pmLunch - SLAC Cafeteria
Session 3: V4 (Chair: Greg White) 
Talks are 10 min. with 5 min. Q & A
02:00pmEPICS V4: An Overview and Application at BNL 
- Bob Dalesio, BNL
02:15pmPVAccess Network Protocol 
- Matej Sekoranja, Cosylab
02:30pmV3/V4 Interoperability 
- Marty Kraimer, BNL
02:45pmThe EPICS V4 Platform for Services 
- Timo Korhonen, PSI
03:00pmWorking Group and Opportunities 
- Greg White, SLAC
03:15pmGroup Photo & Coffee Break
04:00 - 05:30pmGroup Discussions
06:30pmDinner - University Club of Palo Alto

 

Friday, April 27, 2012

09:00amSLAC Tour, Kavli Auditorium 
– SLAC Communications
Session 1: Low Level Applications/V3 (Chair: Ernest Williams) 
Talks are 10 min. with 5 min. Q & A
10:45amBACNet for EPICS 
- Brad Webb, ORNL
11:00amApplication of Embedded EPICS to Vacuum Control System for SuperKEKB 
- Terui Shinji, KEK
11:15amExperience Using Redundant IOCs  
- Joerg Penning, DESY
11:30amSetting Magnets with fsmRecord  
- Mathias Steiner, Michigan State University
11:45amImproving IOC Applications (Overcome SDI)  
- Shantha Condamoor, SLAC
12:00pmCA Tunneling with SSH 
- Till Straumann, SLAC
12:15pmDesign of the LANSCE Timed Data System 
- Jeffrey Hill,  LANL
12:30pmV3-Release Plans 
- Andrew Johnson, ANL
12:45pmAdjourn