Development of STAR EPICS VM Environment Jiro Fujita, Charles Costello, Ryan Gnabasik Creighton University/STAR Collaboration EPICS Collaboration Meeting.

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Development of STAR EPICS VM Environment Jiro Fujita, Charles Costello, Ryan Gnabasik Creighton University/STAR Collaboration EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013

The Motivation Ease of installation for newcomers Controlled environment Developed projects can be saved on the disk Can be used for prototype development by the remote collaborators Keep the package relatively generic such that anybody can use it EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013

STAR Collaboration/Creighton University STAR (Solenoidal Tracker At BNL) is a large physics collaboration with very few EPICS developers No full-time EPICS developers Creighton is responsible for STAR Slow Control One of our task is to teach students through research STAR subdetector upgrade is handled by other institutions in collaboration with Creighton Control Group EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013

Pre-build EPICS Distributions KEK Mini-EPICS INFN LivEPICS NSLS-II Debian packages SNS MacOS X EPICS Channel Access Client Installer APS Virtual Linac Others?? EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013

Past Students… Try to setup EPICS on their computers Not always easy, as most students have almost no experience in Unix environment Setting up extra computers somewhere for them to use Live CD editions (LivEPICS by INFN or miniEPICS by KEK) Give the CD to students, tell them how to use Worked well, but started to see students with Macs rather than Windows… Newer computers sometimes have issues booting correctly from older boot CDs… EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013

EPICS Virtual Machine Environment Originally intended only for the internal use at Creighton (not even among the STAR collaboration) Not exactly a new idea itself, but freely available to anybody Inspired by miniEPICS (KEK) and LivEPICS (INFN) As long as the host computer is x86 architecture, EPICS VM should work regardless of the host OS We chose VirtualBox, as it is free No extra financial burden for students Enables consistent set of tools and interface, etc Excellent for newcomers with minimal experience with Linux EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013

EPICS VM in Action Used by two undergraduate to learn EPICS basic this spring semester Made it possible for the students to learn how to use EPICS without worrying about how to do the initial setup, which is somewhat irrelevant in their level Contains enough tools for them to develop and learn the EPICS basic including MEDM, Asyn, VDCT and sequence EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013

STAR EPICS VM MEDM & Probe EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013

STAR EPICS VM Probe & VDCT EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013

Students Creighton EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013

Performance Test Performance Test was done by using EPICS Base Regression Test Suite a chain of 103 calc and ai records which are all forward-linked together using database links. It measures that 1000 times, and reports the total and average time for the processing chain Real Linux machine (Scientific Linux 5.8, Quad core Core i5-3.1 GHz) totalTime= sec 12, processes/sec EPICS VM (Host OS: MacOS X 10.8, Dual core Core i7 2.7 GHz) totalTime= sec 10, processes/sec Older Performance record (8-core Xeon-2.0GHz, RHEL 5.4) totalTime= sec 11, processes/sec EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013

Possible Future Plan Adding other EPICS tools? EDM (likely coming soon) CSS ALH ChannelArchiver caxy ssh proxy Headless version for soft IOC use Early in development EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013

How to get EPICS VM? Available from Creighton server: Brief instruction on how to setup is available as well Link is also available from EPICS home page, under “Distribution” section Requires to send me an to get the login and password Not exactly a secret, but I would like to know if anybody is actually interested EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013

Conclusion Based upon two undergraduate students’ experience this spring, it was fairly favorable to use EPICS on VirtualBox as a tool for newcomer Performance isn’t all that bad, given right configuration host computer EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013

Special Thanks Department of Energy Office of Science Creighton University College of Arts & Science EPICS collaboration EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2013