EPICS Collaboration Meeting June 13-16 Proposed Agenda

[wpm@aps.anl.gov (Bill McDowell)]

Changes, suggestions and other presentations are still being accepted.

Bill


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    	     EPICS Collaboration Meeting June 13-16 Proposed Agenda
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All sessions will meet in the Bldg 362 Auditorium,
All sessions will be broadcast via mbone, using Vat, NV and the Whiteboard.
Meeting rooms will be available throught the sessions for off-line meetings


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Monday June 13
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The first day is devoted to tutorials:

All sessions will meet in the Bldg 362 Auditorium


    9:00  EPICS Overview and demos                            
	  Includes a  brief overview of existing tools	(multiple presenters)
    	    * AR, ARR, BURT, ALH,GUS, SDDS, Knob Manager, Parameter page ...
    	    * spreadsheets & other commercial tools
						    
    10:30 Break

    10:45   Database Operations: scanning, INPUT, OUTPUT, FWLINK, SDIS, ...
	    
    (lunch)                                           

    1:00 GDCT, VxWorks, (CapFast <== if cebaf or lanl supplies an instructor)

    2:30 Break

    3:00 MEDM /(DM <== if  lanl supplies an instructor)
 
    4:00 Channel Access lecture 

    4:45 On-Line Documentation access
    
     Dinner at local restaurants
	
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Tuesday June 14th 
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    General Session
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     8:00   ...coffee &amp; doughnuts
     8:30   Welcome                             (John Galayda APS) 
     8:40   Announcements  		        (Bill McDowell APS)
     8:50   Report from  Previous Meeting	(Bob Dalesio LANL) 
     9:10   Progress report from CEBAF		(Karen White CEBAF)
     9:30   Progress report from LBL            (Steve Lewis LBL)
     9:50   Progress report from APS		(Bill McDowell ANL)
    10:10   Progress report from CATS		(Mark Rivers CARS CAT)
    10:30   Break

    Tools for/from the Physicists
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    10:45   Standard Data Sets netCDF and HDF   (Mark Rivers CARS CAT)   
    11:15   GUS and GUS scripts                 (Glen Decker APS)

(lunch)

    1:00   sdds and mpl	    		        (Michael Borland APS)
    1:45   feedback systems -APS Control law    (L. Emery APS)
    2:15   Model Based Accelerator Diagnosis and Control (Hamid Shoaee CEBAF)
    3:15   Break
  
    3:30   Tcl and EPICS                        (Johannes Vanzeijts CEBAF)
           (1) tcl to CA interface 
           (2) rapid prototypes of several control applications -- orbit lock, energy lock, ... 
           (3) GUI front ends to existing applications -- BURT, RF upload/download, .    

    4:30   Devices                               (C. Saunders APS)
 
    Networks
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    4:45   An VX Works/MIB    			(Dave Wallis APS)
    5:00   The APS network plans                (Bill McDowell APS)

    Documentation
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   5:15   Frame templates
   5:30   Conversion to HTML

   6:00 Dinner at local restaurants




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Wednsday June 15
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Application Sessions
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     8:00   ...coffee &amp; doughnuts

     8:30     Vacuum systems -                                       (Greg Nawrocki ANL)
              
     9:00     Video acquisition &amp; imaging -                          (Eric Ko, Dan Ciarlette APS)
               
     9:30     Retargetable Links                                     (Ned Arnold APS)  
              

     10:00    BITBUS                                                 (Greg Nawrocki APS)
              
     10:30    Break

     10:45    Experiences in scaling EPICS to 100,000 records'       (Karen White CEBAF)

     11:15    Integrating an object oriented database with EPICS'    (Chip Watson CEBAF) 

(lunch)


     1:00     Release 3.12 - Status and release information	     (Marty Kraimer ANL)
	      CA Security, App Developers Release Control

     2:30     CVS for EPICS: an update   	                    (Mike Bordua LBL)

     3:00     Break

     3:15     Channel Access from the Developers viewpoint

     3:45     MVME162 - HIDIOS an operating system                  (John Winans ANL)

     4:00     Synchronous Time stamp support		            (Jim Kowalkowski ANL)

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Thursday June 16
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9:00 - 12:00 Beamline Controls and Future Plans

Suggested Topics:
 
1) portable instrument support
2) generic prototype record/device support
3) custom bare-metal code (on the MVME162, perhaps?) driven from EPICS
4) channel-access support for large arrays ~64k
5) Super IDL Tk/TCl, CAMAC, SUPER...


11:30 plans/ideas for using IDL for data browsing, analysis, machine
diagnosis, ...  (Hamid Shoaee CEEBAF) 


12:00 - 1:00 Lunch




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Thursday Afternoon
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     1:00 - 3:00 Report from Committees and Wrapup
     3:00   Tour of APS (~1 hour)



    Also: Special working groups may be formed for additional technical
          discussions, and may meet this afternoon before or after the
          tours.