NICOS 2 collaboration meeting

Session

NICOS2@ESS - technical aspects

13 Jun 2017, 12:00

DMSC/ESS

2. Deployment & dependencies

13/06/2017, 12:45

Discussion topics: - How does FRMII handle deployment of NICOS to the instruments? - Dependency handling: split debian "meta-packages" (for GUI, daemon, etc) exist, should be similar for Centos? - PyPI/Custom FRMII package index - how to handle those dependencies automatically? - Good way to handle "special dependencies", e.g. on instrument level?

3. Detectors and data streaming

13/06/2017, 13:30

Discussion topics: - Short overview of ESS streaming architecture - If possible, short overview of how various parts of Detector and the different "sinks" work together in NICOS - What are good integration points between NICOS and bits of the streaming architecture (aggregator, file writer)? - If possible, Mark Könnecke could elaborate on "Data Interface" concept - Kafka integration...

4. NICOS & Mantid

13/06/2017, 15:35

Discussion Topics: - Integration between NICOS and Mantid - what are the options (GUI, ...) - Prototype work by Michael Hart for integration of InstrumentView

0. Logging

13/06/2017, 16:15

Discussion topics: - Short overview of DMSC graylog infrastructure - Necessary modifications of/additions to NICOS logging backend

1. EPICS

13/06/2017, 17:00

Discussion topics: - Improvement of current EPICS implementation - Support for PV Access in addition to Channel Access - ways to avoid duplicate inheritance trees? - Discussion of functionality overlap (EPICS Archiver, Alarm Server) - Any special FRMII requirements that need to be considered?