Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"White, Greg via Core-talk" <[email protected]> · Mon, 6 May 2019 17:24:03 +0000

Hi Mark, 

> What are your target dates for the paper and     the talk?

My target date is really a draft by the midweek and a final by the end of the week. 

A good paragraph and illustration is all I need. I think I already have good data from you, but if you can phrase it for me that would be brilliant. 

> When you say “physics” do you really mean “science” (e.g. beamlines like ours that do geoscience, others that do biology, etc.) or do you want to restrict it to physics, and more specifically accelerator physics?

As you know, it’s an accelerator physics conference. So primarily accelerator physics. 
But obviously, if something is clearly interesting to accelerator physicists because some tool better enables accelerators to uncover science, that will be compelling.

Cheers
Greg

> On May 6, 2019, at 6:57 AM, Mark Rivers <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> What are your target dates for the paper and     the talk?
> 
> When you say “physics” do you really mean “science” (e.g. beamlines like ours that do geoscience, others that do biology, etc.) or do you want to restrict it to physics, and more specifically accelerator physics?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On May 5, 2019, at 8:23 PM, White, Greg via Core-talk <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone, 
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>> Last December Andrew, Steven and I drafted an abstract for an EPICS talk at IPAC 19. 
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>>   THE EPICS SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK MOVES FROM CONTROL TO PHYSICS
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>> Please find abstract and present authors below. Many of you are already authors from having contributed significant code and ideas. I’ll give the talk on our behalf.
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>> I’m asking now for contributions to the talk and paper on adoption, and experiences of EPICS oriented towards physics (beyond SCADA). Contributions don't have to be about EPICS 7/4 specifically.
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>> So, please let me know of work either you’ve done, or you think should be included.
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>> ** Ideally please give me one or two paragraphs, including context, plus a diagram or picture if at all possible. **
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>> It’s an oral too - so if you have good visual material I’d love that.
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>> Of course, any work described will get author credit. 
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>> Cheers, and many thanks in advance,
>> Greg
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>> THE EPICS SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK MOVES FROM CONTROL TO PHYSICS
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>> The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS), is an open source software framework for high-performance distributed control, and is at the heart of many of the world's large accelerators and telescopes. Recently, EPICS has undergone a major revision, with the aim of better computing supporting for the next generation of machines and analytical tools. Many new data types, such as matrices, tables, images, and statistical descriptions, plus users' own data types, supplement the simple scalar and waveform types of the former EPICS. New computational architectures for scientific computing have been added for high-performance data processing services and pipelining. The result has been that accelerator controls are now being integrated with modelling and simulation, machine learning, enterprise computing, and experiment DAQs. We introduce this new version of EPICS from the perspective of accelerator physicists, illustrate how data collection and analysis is now easier than ever, and review early adoption uses in accelerators around the world.
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>> Present author list:
>> Authors: Greg White (SLAC, Menlo Park, California), Andrew Nicholas Johnson, Mark Lloyd Rivers, Sinisa Veseli (ANL, Argonne, Illinois), Kunal Shroff (BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York), Matej Sekoranja (Cosylab, Ljubljana), Timo Korhonen (ESS, Lund), David Gareth Hickin (EuXFEL, Schenefeld), Heinz Junkes (FHI, Berlin), Martin Gregor Konrad (FRIB, East Lansing), Ralph Lange (ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance), Steven M. Hartman, Kay-Uwe Kasemir (ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee), Leo Bob Dalesio, Michael Davidsaver (Osprey DCS LLC, Ocean City), Dirk Zimoch (PSI, Villigen PSI), Martin Richard Kraimer (Self Employment, Private address)
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