The Role of Cosylab and the J. Stefan Institute

in ACS

Presented at 1st ACS Workshop, March 3rd, 2004by Mark Pleško

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Lots of ACS design

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GUI Components and Panels for ACS

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ACS Packages by Cosylab and JSI

Applications

CORBA Middleware ACEDevelopment tools

1 - Base tools

Astro libraries(from Commercial/Shared packages)

FITS libraries(from Commercial/Shared packages)

Device Drivers

5 - Integrated APIs and tools

Error System

Logging System

Time System

Data channel

2 - Core components

ACS Component Configuration Database

Command System

Alarm System

SamplingArchiving System

3 - Services ACS Container Serialization Plugs

UIF libraries

Scripting4 - Hi-level APIs and tools

...more to come...

ACS InstallerACS Application Framework

jlog, objexpjmanager

Abeans

CosyBeans

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From ANKA to ALMA: a Historical Perspective

• Nov 96 – JSI for ANKA: choose Java, CORBA• 97-99: ANKA CS, Abeans• Nov 99: MP meets GCH• 00: ACS prototype• 02: ANKA gets ACS• 00-04: ~5 manyears

• A: ALMA, ANKA, Advanced, Administrator• C: Common, CORBA, Control, Client• S: Software, System, Server, Supervisor

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Cosylab – Control System Laboratory

• Spin-off from J. Stefan Institute (Nov. 2001)– complete control systems– custom development (software and hardware) – device integration– consulting– Open Source Business Model

• existing software is free to research labs• we charge only for the adaptation we do

• Recruit only top quality team-members– add loyalty and culture (co-ownership)– 22 members, 8 full time, 5 nearly full time

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A Web-Based A Web-Based GIS GIS Editing Tool For Spatial Editing Tool For Spatial DDataata

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Electronics for Diesel Engines

Partnering with manufacturers

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Products for Large Scientific Control Systems

• Components for GUI panels• Application framework• Control System and Tools• I/O Modules

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MicroIOC SER-1

• StrongARM

• embedded

• serial input

• Linux

• EPICS onboard

• ACS onboard

• Black boxoperation

First customer:

SLS @ PSI

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ACS and Abeans Customer Base

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CVS• Sources

• Manuals (in XML)

• Resources

eManagement Cycle for Quality Assurance

Customer

Project definition

Internal Pages•open project

•select project manager

•select project members

Request Tracker•To-Do

•Activity list

•Bugs

Actual work•Code

•XML Docs

Testing/QC

Scripts

Project Web•Sources

•Manuals

•…

Bug report

ANT• automatic build

• automatic tests

• database driven

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VisualDCT – A popular tool for EPICS: an example of the open source

business modelFunded by: PSI, ANL, DNL, ORNL, PSI, Jlab

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Next Idea: Generic Applications for +

• Same look and feel: – SNS: Object Explorer

– Jlab:Archive Reader (next)

ACS Office– Diamond: ControlDesk

EPICS

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Conclusions

• We still have many new ideas for control system improvements, in particular with ACS and EPICS

• We are still part of the community, but now we have to make a living– Whatever you outsource, we’d be interested in

doing it– Whatever your requirements are, we will follow

them– We will even write documentation!