ESS Control System Infrastructure and Software workshop with PSI Controls

24 Oct 2017, 09:15 → 25 Oct 2017, 12:00 Europe/Stockholm

Remy Mudingay (European Spallation Source ERIC), Simon Ebner

Tuesday, 24 October

09:15 → 09:30 Introduction

Outline the agenda and workshop objectives

09:30 → 12:00 ESS EPICS controls architecture

A high-level description of ESS's planned implementation of EPICS architecture
- Network description
- Virtual and storage architecture
- ESS Epics Environment

Questions here are:
What is their general architecture to run IOCs (network, gateway, NFS server)?
How does PSI ensure the reliability of the NFS server?
What are your setup regarding EPICS alarm and archiver?
What are your workflow to build EPICS modules? Is there a staging area? If so, what is the process to move things to the production server?
What tests are ran?
What is the big advantage in using shared libraries for EPICS instead of binaries? Which one?
How does PSI handle dependencies between EPICS shared libraries?
How does PSI handle updates of the OS (root filesystem)?
How does PSI handle updates of EPICS modules? EPICS base?
What does PSI use in term of monitoring?

slides ESS_EPICS_Controls_Architecture.pptx

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:45 PSI Controls Network: PSI Controls General Overview

• PSI controls topology

• how are gateways deployed
    -> how we use it / what is our experience / what should be avoided
    -> do we use gateways networks?

• Swiss FEL archiver
• NFS / PXE boot, EPICS modules, etc

13:00 Break

14:45 → 15:10 Break