Add the name of your meeting/conference, the location and date Page 1 EPICS Collaboration Meeting Spring 2010 – Aix-en-Provence Highlights Franck Di Maio, with contributions from Bob Dalesio & Wolf-Dieter Klotz

Spring EPICS collaboratio9n meeting 2010 – Aix-en-Provence, France Page 2 Numbers Approx: 115 Participants 50 Affiliations 15 countries  Lunch at 12:30 We are very proud to have hosted this meeting!  Fusion participants from all the ITER parties (China, Europe, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, USA).  Very strong representation of the EPICS community.  EPICS is a success story in fusion, telescopes, experimental control accelerator control and medical facility.  A reference world-wide collaboration for ITER.

Spring EPICS collaboratio9n meeting 2010 – Aix-en-Provence, France Page 3 Control System Studio Created at DESY several years ago Now, ORNL and DESY tools provides a very strong basis for operator tools and are used in control rooms. ITER, BNL, and APS have evaluated what is there and found enough functionality and promise to start to put resources into this. Will likely provide the next generation platform for operator applications. Maintain collaborative work! –Shared sources –Shared interfaces –Shared components

Spring EPICS collaboratio9n meeting 2010 – Aix-en-Provence, France Page 4 Software Management Tests! –Unit tests –Regression test –Automatic built Automated build process (Hudson) Source management –Distributed version control (Mercurial, Bazaar) A large effort in many labs (optimization) –Automated regression Diamond –CSS build BNL –EPICS base build and APS & Diamond –EPICS RPMS build ITER SourceForge!

Spring EPICS collaboratio9n meeting 2010 – Aix-en-Provence, France Page 5 EPICS Support & improvement continue! –completing event filtering on the server side, –solidifying existing capabilities, –standardizing the interfaces to hardware as in the AynPortDriver,  We have still not gone past version (pi)

Spring EPICS collaboratio9n meeting 2010 – Aix-en-Provence, France Page 6 Configuration data management Relational DB usage continues to increase: –IRMIS -> VDCT –ChannelFinder –RDB in CSS –ITER SDD Will configuration data management with RDB replace configuration text files in EPICS?

Spring EPICS collaboratio9n meeting 2010 – Aix-en-Provence, France Page 7 MDS+ A new keyword for non-fusion EPICS community. A widely used data system in the fusion community. A RFX: –How EPICS tools and fusion ones can co-exist –How data acquisition can be integrated with machine control.

Spring EPICS collaboratio9n meeting 2010 – Aix-en-Provence, France Page 8 pvData, pvAccess, javaIOC, pvService The new infrastructure for high-level applications continues to develop C++ servers will be possible soon with direct interface to IOC.

Spring EPICS collaboratio9n meeting 2010 – Aix-en-Provence, France Page 9 And a lot of other New Stuff KSTAR Widget Toolkit: Qt-based, nice & powerful. ITER distribution & developments. AsynPortDriver: a very powerful framework VDCT vs 3 Finite State Machine record Data flavoring & Filtering with CA. Python + Jython GDA extended Hypertable etc…  Imagine combinations… ex: AsynPortDriver + pvService/C++ + pvData + CSS/KWT/Jython

Spring EPICS collaboratio9n meeting 2010 – Aix-en-Provence, France Page 10 Improvements Welcome Python CA (Xiaoqiang Wang) JCA-E library (Simon Ebner) VDCT update …

Spring EPICS collaboratio9n meeting 2010 – Aix-en-Provence, France Page 11 Next On-line: mailing lists, Shared repositories (SourceForge), etc. Autumn EPICS collaboration meeting… October BNL

Spring EPICS collaboratio9n meeting 2010 – Aix-en-Provence, France Page 12 Thanks for coming!