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Draft agenda for tommorrow's beamline controls meeting


              Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition Committee
                          January 14, 1997, 1:30 PM
                          Building 401, Room B3100
                                   
                              Tentative Agenda


Beamline Controls Group activities: Tim Mooney and others

Update on EPICS R3.13:  Marty Kraimer

Reports on CAT control and data acquisition activities
    MCA Developments in CARS - Mark Rivers
    Others

Group response to Bob Dalesio's list (copy attached) of EPICS-development
plans.  Wish list for beamline-controls software.

Do we want to have a beamline-controls workshop this spring/summer?

Web-based documentation for medm displays: Tim Mooney

Discussion of possibilities for Web-based beamline-control displays.



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          Bob Delesio's List of Possible Future EPICS Developments

Archiver:
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Buffer Server -> CAC ->	Frequency -> S/C -> 	Java Viewer
Vectors		 CDEV	Monitor			XARR
Arrays			Save Set		SDDS
			Scope			PC?
Config Tool for data taking engines


Pentium Drivers in the Pentium IOC:
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Industry Pack
Fire Wire
Allen-Bradley
Modbus


Online Add/Delete
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Drivers
Device Support
Record Types
Record Instances


PC Visualization
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MEDM/DM Merge - then port
Rewrite
Use something commercial
Archive data viewing and analysis


Portable CAS connected to the database
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Must precede any CA protocol changes


CAV4
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Large Array Support
Protocol Compression
Client to call server directly
-Name server / name cache


Redundancy
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Does anyone need this -
To what extent do we make things redundant


Support multiple O/S - NT/VMS/Unix etc....
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Put Makefile.Host into release
Do we need to improve install procedures


Portable expression evaluator
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Ability to create expression with a server that run on
any OS