ECDC Workshop Spring 2023

28 Feb 2023, 09:00 → 1 Mar 2023, 16:45 Europe/Stockholm

Schurtenberger room, 5th floor (LINXS)

Day 1: Technical workshop with ECDC and invited teams. Location: LINXS.

Day 2: ECDC planning sessions. Location: ESS Site.

 

Slack channel: #workshop-spring2023-ecdc-and-friends

Minutes: https://confluence.esss.lu.se/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=441475430

Tuesday, 28 February

1 Presentation about LINXS

Technical discussions

2 System Monitoring at ECDC

Speaker: Morten Jagd Christensen (European Spallation Source ERIC)

2023 02 28 Systems monitoring ECDC.pptx

3 ICS monitoring overview

Speakers: Remy Mudingay (European Spallation Source ERIC), Stephane Armanet (European Spallation Source ERIC)

Monitoring for Applications, Data Center, Neworks and Security Events.pptx

4 Discussion: User Interfaces for Troubleshooting

We discuss the troubleshooting information needed by different personas, and how this information can be presented effectively.
The three personas we consider are:
- ESS end-user (visiting scientist)
- Expert (instrument scientist)
- Engineer (specialist in some part of the instrument like a chopper engineer, software engineer, ...)

10:25 Break

5 DST monitoring systems - status and plans

Speaker: Jesper Rude Selknaes (European Spallation Source ERIC)

monitoring_ecdc_meeting_28_02_2023.pptx

6 Deployment and testing for SWAP

Speaker: Fredrik Bolmsten (European Spallation Source ERIC)

DevOps-SWAP.pptx

7 Discussion in groups

12:00 Lunch

Hands-on

8 Troubleshooting the data acquisition pipeline

Confluence page

14:40 Break

Technical discussions

9 Streamlining the deployment process

Speaker: Afonso Mukai (European Spallation Source ERIC)

2023-02-28 ECDC Workshop.pptx

10 Discussion: EPICS module versioning and NICOS

When EPICS modules are updated they can change the list of published PVs, and NICOS must be aware of it.
In this session we discuss ways of managing this versioning across both NICOS and the EPICS layer.
Some questions we may explore:
- How do we coordinate upgrades between the EPICS layer and NICOS?
- How do we document a given EPICS interface (i.e. the list of PVs of a given EPICS module version)?
- How do we configure a given PV list in NICOS?
- Should we have a way of testing if a given interface between NICOS and EPICS is valid?

Speaker: Nicklas Holmberg (HiQ)

ecdc-workshop.pptx

11 Hands-on: Exploring SciCat

Speaker: Massimiliano Novelli

Github

12 Pub Quiz

Wednesday, 1 March

ECDC team sessions

13 2022 Retrospective

10:20 Break

14 Milestone Party

Milestone fun like you never thought possible.

12:00 Lunch

Site tour

Convener: Stefanos Athanasopoulos (European Spallation Source ERIC)

15:00 Break

Hands-on

15 (Cancelled) Provision and configure an instrument's software stack in 60 minutes

Session cancelled