6th ECP Workshop

11 Dec 2017, 10:00 → 13 Dec 2017, 18:00 Europe/London

Oxfordshire

Owen Arnold (STFC)

6th Experiment Control Program for ESS Controls and related DMSC activities.

Location

Main events will take place at Coseners House, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK, some satellite sessions will be based at ISIS. Information provided against each session.

Hotels

Lots of hotels and guest houses within walking distance of Coseners house. Some suggestions:

• Crown and Thistle
• Oxford Abingdon Hotel
• Brewery Tap

Events

• Organised Dinner 12th December at the Crown and Thistle 19:30-21:30.
• If you have not visited the ISIS facility and wish to do so, please contact Owen Arnold ahead of the event.

Remote Participation 

You should be able to attend this as a VidyoMeeting on the ESS VidyoPortal.

• To join from your Computer/Tablet/Phone (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux) please follow this link: https://vportal.esss.lu.se/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=f1zbOycsdfLnSaThJvTfxw0hHM 
• To join using a Legacy Videoconference System (H.323), please dial in to 194.47.240.175 and key in my extension 13314 to join the room

Linux users will have to download the desktop application from https://vportal.esss.lu.se

For help getting started please visit our Knowledge Center at https://support.vidyocloud.com/hc/en-us

document Information_For_Visitors_to_ISIS.pdf RAL_safety.pdf

Monday, 11 December

11:00 → 18:00 NICOS/Mantid Interop for FRMII Dev Team (Limited)

Satellite Workshop at ISIS. This is being run for the benefit of FRMII Nicos developers. This session will likely not be of interest to developers outside the FRMII team, but please contact Lamar Moore if you wish to attend. Exact numbers are needed, so you must let Lamar Moore know you are coming. Hands-on coding where possible to solve issues.

To make the session most useful, participants should bring laptops with development environments for both Nicos and Mantid.

Lunch will be served to us in the room.

Convener: Mr Lamar Moore (STFC/ISIS)

13:00 → 18:00 Data Streaming Meeting

Set up at the request of Tobias Richter for his data streaming team. This session requires sign-up if you are interested in attending, and have not already indicated as such to Tobias Richter, please do so.

The room will be available from 13:00.

Convener: Tobias Richter (European Spallation Source ERIC)

13:00 Meeting Kick-off and Planning

13:20 Plenary Discussions

Work needed for V20 test * Forwarder * File Writer ECP Meeting preparations

14:00 Working in smaller Groups

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Working in smaller Groups

16:30 Plenary Wrap-up of Group Work

17:00 Meeting Close

Coding Convention Risks and Mitigations Agenda and Tasks for Integration Milestone

Tuesday, 12 December

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome

Convener: Mr Owen Arnold (STFC)

09:15 → 09:30 Status of IBEX at ISIS

Current developments and future plans

slides IBEX_Status_2017_Dec_12.pptx

09:30 → 09:45 Status of Nicos at FRMII

Updates from FRM2 of current developments and future directions

slides NICOS-status.pdf

09:45 → 10:00 Status of Data Reduction project

Quick update of Data Reduction activities and how they relate to experiment control and data streaming

slides Data_reduction_and_data_streaming_progress.ppt

10:00 → 10:45 Misc Status Updates

Status updates no more than 15 minutes each!

Convener: Mr Owen Arnold (STFC)

10:00 Status of V20 Integration

Speaker: Jonas Nilsson (European Spallation Source ERIC)

Slides HZB_Status.pdf

10:10 Motion Control Update

Speaker: Torsten Bögershausen (European Spallation Source ERIC)

Slides 6WS-motor-axis.pdf

10:15 Sample Environment Update

Speaker: Anders Pettersson (European Spallation Source ERIC)

Slides 2017_12_ECPatISIS_MESIupdate.pptx

10:45 → 11:15 Break

11:15 → 11:35 Lewis in IBEX

How Lewis has been adopted into the IBEX build and development infrastructure. Lessons learned.

slides ECP2017LewisAndIOCTestFramework.pptx

11:35 → 11:45 Other Emulator Discussions

11:45 → 12:15 Feedback from IKON 13

NICOS feedback from IKON 13. Early user feedback.

Conveners: Michael Hart (STFC), Mr Owen Arnold (STFC)

slides IKON13_Utgard_Feedback.pdf

12:15 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 13:45 Building UIs in NICOS

How to build custom UIs in NICOS

Convener: Michael Hart (STFC)

13:45 → 14:15 Instrument User Interface Challenge

User Interfaces modifications for NICOS. What technologies we could use. Do we consider remote access in the design? How much effort would it take? What is the priority? Maybe Mark Koennecke would lead that

Convener: Dr Mark Koennecke (Paul Scherrer Institute)

14:15 → 15:00 Performance Testing the BrightnESS tool chain

Conveners: Dominik Werder (Paul Scherrer Institut), Dr Michele Brambilla (Paul Scherrer Institut)

slides FilewriterPerformances.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 16:15 Kafka and NICOS integration

Kafka and NICOS integration, Who informs NICOS about various brokers and topics. Who starts up all the services. Proposed file writer template structure.

Convener: Mr Nikhil Biyani (PSI)

slides ECP-Meeting-12-12-17.pdf

16:15 → 16:45 Interface to Data Streaming

Control, feeding in of Nicos Python devices, use of Kafka as Nicos infrastructure - i.e. reading from Kafka

Convener: Tobias Richter (European Spallation Source ERIC)

16:45 → 17:15 Visualisations for Ongoing Experiments

Conveners: Michael Hart (STFC), Mr Owen Arnold (STFC)

17:15 → 18:00 Plans for roll-out or full system tests

At what facilities/beamlines V20, SINQ?, ISIS?, others?

Conveners: Mr Owen Arnold (STFC), Tobias Richter (European Spallation Source ERIC)

19:45 → 22:45 Organised Meal Sponsored by Tessella

Meal hosted at the Crown and Thistle hotel https://www.crownandthistleabingdon.co.uk/christmas-party

Wednesday, 13 December

09:00 → 09:30 Requirements for Soft Vetoing

Where will this get done? What information can we go on? What will the performance be like.

09:30 → 10:00 Organisation Across Groups

Tracking issues across ESS divisions. How to manage and coordinate better.

Convener: Mr Owen Arnold (STFC)

10:00 → 11:30 Unscheduled Topics and Overflow from Tuesday

Any other business

11:30 → 12:00 Workshop Conclusion and Close

Conclusion for the workshop. This marks the finalisation of the workshop. Note that subsequent events require sign-up and may not be suited for the general participants of the workshop.

12:00 → 13:00 Working Lunch

Working lunch provided as part of the meeting

13:00 → 14:00 Transport to Airport or RAL

Individuals will be responsible for their own transport. Please contact Owen Arnold for advise on connections.

14:00 → 16:00 ISIS in-kind effort meeting (Closed)

Closed meeting. Relevant participants already invited. This is not open to all attendees of the workshop.

Convener: Jonathan Taylor (European Spallation Source ERIC)

14:00 → 15:00 Tours of ISIS (Optional)

Optional. Please contact Owen Arnold if you would like to attend.