EPICS Collaboration Meeting 2006
Status Reports

Dave Gurd, Oak Ridge National Lab:
"SNS Status"

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• SNS: Spallation Neutron Source http://www.sns.gov/
• Linux based SoftIOCs
• IOC Status Server ⇒ B.Kolb
• SNS has ~400,000 PVs
• Rule of thumb: One "channel" needs 5 PVs
• LabView-EPICS interface
• Full integrated test of all subsystems through the control system!
• Project status: Project completion report

Wayne Lewis, Australian Synchrotron:
"Status of the Australian Synchrotron"

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• http://www.synchrotron.vic.gov.au
• totally Linux based system (no vxWorks!)
• Melbourne

Tom Cobb, Diamond Light Source:
"Status of the Diamond Light Source"

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• http://www.diamond.ac.uk
• 450,000 PVs
• EPICS in two layer system
• SoftIOCs used for development
• EDM Synoptic Screens

Hamid Shoaee, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, SLAC, Stanford Synch. Radiation Lab.:
"LCLS (Control system) Status"

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• LCLS: Linac Coherent Light Source
• http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/lcls/index.html
• Laser Conntrol System of France based on LabView will be converted to EPICS
• "Digital Processing in EPICS"
• Matlab Channel Access system for quick prototyping
• Topic: Legacy systems (Wikipedia: en, de )
• Keyword PLC: Programmable Logic Control (Wikipedia: de, en)
• XAL: Java based Heirarchy for Application Programming http://www.sns.gov/APGroup/appProg/xal/xal.htm by SNS

Ralph Lange, BESSY:
"Status of the Willy-Wien Laboratory"

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• http://www.bessy.de
• Metrology Light Source MLS: "Willy-Wien Laboratory"
• project page: http://ib.ptb.de/en/org/7/71/716/index.html
• project "PTB-driven" (PTB: Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany)
• SoftIOCs on Linux
• GPIB through GPIB-Ethernet Boxes
• Warning: Bad experiences with company "DANFYSIK"

Norihiko Kamikubota, KEK/J-PARC:
"JPARC Status"

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• JPARC: Japan Proton Accelerator Reasearch Center
• http://j-parc.jp/index-e.html
• jSAD: SAD interpreter in JAVA ???
• SAD: strategic accelerated design ???

Tasukro Nakamura, KEK:
"Developments at KEK"

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• http://www.kek.jp/intra-e/
• Pyton IOCs

Dennis Armstrong, Swiss Light Source, SLS, Paul Scherer Institut, PSI:
"SLS Status"

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• http://sls.web.psi.ch/
• sls install ⇒ Software Reuse
• "require" - Keyword in startup script
• Controls Inventory Database
• "DCOM to EPICS" Interface
• vxWorks Upgrade 5.3.1 → 5.5.1 (20 people have knowledge)

Geoff Savage, Fermilab, FNAL:
"EPICS at Fermilab"

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• ILC TA (ILC Test Accelerator), ILC International Linear Collider
• http://ilc.fnal.gov/
• other Control system:
  • ACNET (FNAL)
  • EPICS
  • DOOCS (DESY)