CERN Trip Report: April 4-8, 2011 LAFS Work Elliott McCrory April 20, 2011

Outline  People  Jones and Lars (BI)  Sigerud & Deghaye (CO/AP)  Hatziangeli  Lamont  And, of course, Lahey.  Projects  Existing work  Potential Future Work  Personnel LAFS 2 20 April 2010

USD/CHF LAFS 3 20 April CHF = $ (!)

Summary of Discussions  Beam Instrumentation Folks  Rhodri Jones & Lars Jensen Satisfied with Schottky work Proposed a new Daemon/GUI project for bunch-by-bunch measurement and display –Details coming…  BE/CO/Applications Folks  Katarina and Stephane They strongly acknowledge the good work that the LAFS team has provided and can provide –RBAC –Daemon Infrastructure –Operations Applications Propose a new project to help with InCA (Injector Controls Architecture) and LSA database configurations. –Details coming… LAFS 4 20 April 2010

Department Heads  Eugenia (BE/CO)  Will initiate the creation of a new M.O.U. for our bosses (Paul Collier and Roger Dixon)  Mike (BE/OP)  Described the week’s work, and the status of LAFS  They said  Words of encouragement  Would like to see more contributions LAFS 5 20 April 2010

Status of Existing Work Supertable Wire Scanner App Schottky Suite BSRT (Synchrotron Light) App

Supertable  Taken over by BE/CO (Mario Pereira)  Prototype is working   Not online: Need work from DM LAFS 7 20 April 2010

Wire Scanner  Bunch-by-bunch capabilities fully integrated  Listened to lots of criticism/suggestions for improvement. LAFS 8 20 April 2010 New

New Feature: Mountain Range LAFS 9 20 April 2010

Schottky Suite  Daemon and GUI  Only bunch-by-bunch device active!  Well, there’s the Fast BCT, too.  BSRT is almost there.  Used extensively  Favier, Pieloni, Mounet  Just implemented:  Play List  Save/Restore LAFS April 2010

Schottky Emittances LAFS April 2010

LAFS April 2010

Slot Selection GUI LAFS April 2010

Schottky Play List LAFS April 2010

Schottky Save/Restore LAFS April 2010

Synchrotron Light  Unclear future for LAFS  They proposed that we write a Daemon  Started in early February  Was not accepted (late February)  Talk of having a new GUI created  Not good  Terri and I are paying attention! LAFS April 2010

Proposals BI: Bunch data display CO/AP: LSA Config GUIs

Project Proposal: BI Bunch GUI  A new BI GUI  Imagined by Rhodri, Lars and Jean-Jacques Gras  Basics:  Gather bunch-by-bunch info from all BI devices that do bunch- by-bunch Schottky (Daemon) Fast BCT BSRT (soon)  Concentrated in one place a Daemon  Republish in coherent manner  Create a GUI Configure the Daemon Allow easy access to all bunch-by-bunch data  Proposal letter (pre-requirements) coming  Audience: LAFS team, BI group, P. Collier and R. Dixon. LAFS April 2010

Proposal: LSA DB Config GUIs  Katarina and Stephane  Need a simpler way to configure the LSA device database  LSA Database being pushed into injector  Have existing tools, but must be replaced  Configure front ends directly, through a non-standard interface  But easy for PS-Complex operators to use  LHC/SPS Situation?  Only Extreme experts can configure  Requires raw SQL (through Benthic) LAFS April 2010

LSA DB Config GUIs, cont’d  A limited number of GUIs are required  Less than ten?  But we would develop the pattern for making more  Stephane will write a proposal letter  Target: LAFS team, E. Hatziangeli, M. Lamont, P. Collier and R. Dixon.  Proposed team:  Deghaye would be the liaison  Katarina and Mike would designate a “customer”  LAFS team will decide on a work group LAFS April 2010

Proposals: Next steps?  Awaiting these documents  Jones (Bunch data concentrator and GUI)  Stephane (LSA Configuration GUIs)  Eugenia (M.O.U. proposal)  Analyze LAFS work force  Now: 1.x FTE (Jerry and me), plus Terri.  Can we increase that number? Are *YOU* interested in these new projects??? LAFS April 2010

Personnel  Liaison  Terri returns to SLAC soon Officially: May 31 Would like to extend  We have requested for Suzanne to be at CERN starting in October Support from Prebys and Dixon Official approval is pending  Elliott and Jerry C.: ~full time  The End LAFS April 2010