1st ACS Workshop - 08th and 09th of March 2004
Based on preliminary discussions with various groups (in particular at ADASS and ICALEPCS conferences) that have some interest in the ACS(*) development and might be considering to use it or to collaborate to its further development, we have seen that there might be an interest in an ACS Workshop with the purpose of introducing ACS and discussing ACS present status, foreseen developments and how it can be used by projects other than ALMA.
(*) ACS is developed for the astronomical ALMA Project (while being a fully general framework for control and non-control applications). ACS is the result of a collaborative effort among the European Southern Observatory (ESO) (main partner- 4 FTE/year), National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Socorro(1 FTE/year), Astronomical Observatory of Trieste (INAF-AOTs) (~1 FTE/year) and Cosylab Lmt. (~1 FTE/year). These Institutes share the intellectual property of ACS, which is freely available under the GNU LGPL public license (compatible with the use of commercial products, like ZLegacy/ACS.VxWorks). ACS is based on an initial kernel of software provided by JSI/Cosylab, which includes ABeans and has been in use on the ANKA accelarator, Germany. The present Release of ACS is used at about 20 Institutes and installed on something like 80 computers (See: ACS Users List).
When
08th and 09th or March 2004
Where
ESO, Council Room Garching, near Munich, Germany
What
The main purpose of the workshop will be to discuss how ACS can be used for other projects than ALMA. Although ACS is developed for the ALMA and ALMA requirements drive the development, but a number or other projects both inside and outside the ALMA partner organisations have shown an interest in using ACS.
Agenda!
| Monday | ||
|---|---|---|
| 09:00, 15m | Welcome, introduction to ESO | |
| 09:15, 15m | Around the table: who is who! | |
| 09:30, 15m | The ALMA project and the ALMA software | B.Glendenning, NRAO |
| 09:45, 15m | The role of ACS in the ALMA SW | G.Raffi, ESO |
| 10:00, 30m | ACS Status and future directions | G.Chiozzi, ESO |
| 10:30, 15m | Coffee break | |
| 10:45, 30m | Cosylab, IJS: Role in ACS development, projects and other ACS activities | M.Plesko, Cosylab |
| 11:15, 30m | AOTs: The institute, projects, role in ACS development | M.Pucillo, INAF-AOTs |
| 11:45, 30m | APEX: Architecture, use of ACS and re-use of TICS, interfacing to (legagy) devices with Socket devIO (OpenOffice, PowerPoint) | D.Muders, APEX |
| 12:15, 60m | Lunch at Max-Planck canteen | |
| 13:30, 30m | Round the table discussion about the morning, questions and answers | |
| 14:00, 45m | HPT: Architecture, use of ACS and re-use of TICS, devIO and interfacing to devices HPTVer1.0.ppt | R.Lemke, HPT |
| 14:45, 30m | ANKA Synchrotron: Architecture, use of ACS, experience of operation | W.Mexner, ANKA |
| 15:15, 15m | Spanish 40m: Project, first experience with ACS | P.De Vicente, OAN |
| 15:30, 15m | EVLA project status | G. van Morsel, NRAO |
| 15:45, 15m | Coffee break | |
| 16:00, 30m | Available middleware and common software solutions. Criteria for selecting. ACS, EPICS and others. Presentation and round table discussion | S.Wampler, NSO |
| 16:30, 20m | ACS Keynotes: Component/Container model (ppt) | H.Sommer, ESO |
| 16:50, 15m | ACS Keynotes: XML serialisation (ppt) For more information, see our paper and poster. | H.Sommer, ESO |
| 17:05, 15m | ACS Keynotes: Code generation trends: ALMA Data Model code generation (ACSCodeGenerator) cf. DevelopingTheDataModel and the work on CVS under HLA/DataModel | H.Sommer |
| 17:20, 20m | ACS Keynotes: ALMA Observing Tool: an example of high level ACS application that could be reused (ppt) | M.Schilling/H.Sommer, ESO |
| 17:40, 30m | End of day: summary and open discussion | |
| 19:00 | Dinner at Burgerhaus Garching | |
| Tuesday | ||
| 09:00, 30m | Summary of first day. Questions and answers | |
| 09:30, 30m | Keck Control System and Interferometer: experience with EPICs and CORBA | Al Conrad, Keck (videocon) |
| 10:00, 20m | Integrating ACS with other (Control) Systems: ACS and EPICS | Cosylab |
| 10:20, 20m | Integrating ACS with other (Control) Systems: ACS and VLT Common Software | G.Chiozzi, ESO |
| 10:40, 20m | Coffee break | |
| 11:00, 30m | Abeans: a generic Java and GUI development framework that can be interfaced to different control systems | Cosylab |
| 11:30, 45m | ACS Performances: presentation of available performance measures and discussion | Cosylab |
| 12:30, 85m | Lunch at Max-Planck canteen | |
| 13:45, 15m | Proton Therapy Business Unit | Y.Claerboudt,IBA |
| 14:00, 15m | IRAM Granada: 30m teescope | W.Brunswig |
| 14:30, 90m | Round table: technical questions to the ACS team Using ACS in non ALMA projects: Organisation? How to collaborate? What support? Designing and developing standard interfaces and Components to be reused by different projects: Telescope Mount? Weather Station?.... What shared projects can we start and how can we handle them? | AcsWorkshopDiscussions |
| 16:00, 20m | Coffee break | |
| 16:20, ... | ACS demo and technical discussions | |
Each presentation includes time for discussion and questions. 10 minutes for a 30m presentation, 5 min for a 15m/20m presentation.
Who
This is the actual list of participants to the Workshop.
| name | organisation | project | notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlConrad | Keck Observatory | Videocon from Keck. Link to info on Hawaii side | |
| AndreaOrlati | INAF-IRA | Sardinia Radio Telescope | |
| BillSahr | NRAO | EVLA | EVLA Monitor & Control |
| BrianGlendenning | NRAO | ALMA | ALMA SW responsible |
| CarloMigoni | CNR-IRA | Sardinia Radio Telescope | |
| DirkMuders | MPIfR | APEX & ALMA | Responsible for the APEX software developments. Responsible for the ALMA Pipeline Heuristics development. |
| FrancoCarbognani | EGO | VIRGO | EGO Application Software Manager remaining 1 day after for discussions |
| GianlucaChiozzi | ESO | ALMA | Responsible for ACS development |
| GianniRaffi | ESO | ALMA | Europe ALMA SW responsible |
| GustaafVanMoorsel | NRAO | EVLA | EVLA Computing |
| IgorKriznar | CSL | ALMA | Responsible for ACS at ANKA |
| IgorVerstovsek | CSL | ALMA | |
| KlemenZagar | CSL | ALMA | ACS developer |
| KristerWirenstrand | ESO | VLT/VLTI | Head ESO Technical Software Department |
| MarcoLonza | Elettra Trieste | ||
| MarkPlesko | CSL | ALMA | ACS developer |
| MartinPaegert | AIRUB | HPT | remaining also Wed. morning |
| MatejSekoranja | CSL | ALMA | ACS developer |
| MauroPucillo | INAF-AOTs | ACS development, ACS user | |
| PabloDeVicente | OAN | 40m | Responsible for the 40m control system development |
| PhilippeThirionet | Ion Beam Applications (IBA), Belgium | Protontherapy Control System | System Architect |
| RolandLemke | AIRUB | HPT | Responsible for HPT hardware/software development remaining also Wed. morning |
| RubenBolano | OAN | 40m | 40m control system development |
| SteveWampler | NSO | ATST | Responsible (with Bret Goodrich) for ATST software devel. |
| ThomasJuerges | AIRUB | HPT | remaining also Wed. morning |
| TomMorgan | NRAO | EVLA | EVLA Correlator Backend |
| UdoKrause | GSI | ||
| WalterBrunswig | IRAM | 30mRT NCS | Sw Dev of IRAM 30m Control System |
| WilliamCotton | NRAO | ||
| WolfgangMexner | Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe | ANKA | |
| YvesClaerboudt | Ion Beam Applications (IBA), Belgium | Protontherapy Control System | System Project Manager |
To send an email to participants and interested people: Email Workshop List
How to participate to this discussion
Notes about the workshop, comments and suggestions can be added to the following topic: AcsWorkshopDiscussions
Logistic
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-- GianlucaChiozzi - 11 Mar 2004