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EPICS Collaboration Meeting

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois USA
June 12 - 16, 2006

Special Interest Group Workshops

Time Workshop Location Organizer
Monday (June 12th)
08:00 – 09:00 Registration desk open
Morning SIG Workshops
09:00 – 12:00 IRMIS and Relational Databases 402/E1100 Don Dohan (Argonne)
09:00 – 12:00 RTEMS Primer and workshop 401/A1100 Eric Norum (Argonne)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break, Registration desk open
Afternoon SIG Workshops
13:00 – 17:00 IRMIS and Relational Databases cont. 402/E1100 Don Dohan (Argonne)
Tuesday (June 13th)
08:00 – 12:00 Registration desk open
Morning SIG Workshops
09:00 – 12:00 Control System Suite / Eclipse Frameworks 401/A1100 Matthias Clausen (DESY)
09:00 – 12:00 Beamline Controls workshop 402/E1100 Bob Dalesio (SLAC)

Collaboration Meeting Agenda

The main meeting will be held in the 402 Auditorium. Refreshments will be available from 8:30am and during the morning and afternoon breaks downstairs in the Building 402 Gallery.

Time Title Speaker
Tuesday (June 13th)
12:00 – 16:00 Registration desk open
Afternoon Plenary Session
14:00 – 14:05 Welcome Robert Rosner (Argonne)
14:05 – 14:15 Introduction Murray Gibson (Argonne)
Status Reports
14:15 – 14:30 SNS Status Dave Gurd (ORNL)
14:30 – 14:45 Status of an Antipodean Light Source Speaker TBA
14:45 – 15:00 Diamond Status Peter Denison (Diamond)
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 15:45 LCLS Status Hamid Shoaee (SLAC)
15:45 – 16:00 Status of the Willy-Wien Laboratory Ralph Lange (BESSY)
16:00 – 16:15 JParc Status Norihiko Kamikubota (KEK)
16:15 – 16:30 Developments at KEK Tatsuro Nakamura (KEK)
16:30 – 16:45 SLS Status Dennis Armstrong (PSI)
16:45 – 17:00 Status of EPICS at Fermilab Geoff Savage (FNAL)
Wednesday (June 14th)
08:00 – 11:00 Registration desk open
Morning IOC Operating Systems
08:45 – 09:00 Summary of RTEMS SIG Workshop Eric Norum (Argonne)
09:00 – 09:15 Linux-MVME targets using Motorola board support Joe Sullivan (Argonne)
09:15 – 09:30 LCLS Timing and LLRF on RTEMS Dayle Kotturi (SLAC)
09:30 – 09:45 A PCI/VME Bridge on Linux, porting vxWorks drivers Speaker TBA
Core Development
09:45 – 10:00 EPICS Version 4 Update Bob Dalesio (SLAC)
10:00 – 10:15 The Future via EPICS Version 3 Andrew Johnson (Argonne)
10:15 – 10:30 Feedback on EPICS V4/V3 directions Nick Rees (Diamond)
10:30 – 11:00 Group photograph, Break
11:00 – 11:30 A new hierarchical EPICS database experiment Kay-Uwe Kasemir (ORNL)
11:30 – 12:00 A Java-based IOC Marty Kraimer
12:00 – 12:15 CA Enhancements for LANSCE Timed and Flavored Data Jeff Hill (LANL)
12:15 – 12:30 Modifying hardware addresses at runtime Andrew Johnson (Argonne)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
Afternoon Record/Device/Driver support
13:30 – 13:45 Motor Control and Power Drive support Darrell Nineham (Hytec Electronics)
13:45 – 14:00 Enhancements to Motor record Device and Driver support Peter Denison (Diamond)
14:00 – 14:15 New drivers for the Motor record Mark Rivers (University of Chicago)
14:15 – 14:30 MCS-8 motion controller Rok Sabjan (Cosylab)
14:30 – 14:45 Support for CR/CSR Addressing Eric Bjorklund (LANL)
Beamline Control
14:45 – 15:00 Beamline Controls at the IPNS Rodney Porter (Argonne)
Exhibition Hour
15:00 – 16:00 Break, Registration desk open
15:00 – 16:00 Demonstrations and informal discussions in 402 Gallery
Beamline Control (cont.)
16:00 – 16:15 Synapps Workshop report Nick Rees (Diamond)
16:15 – 16:30 Summary of Beamline Controls SIG Workshop Mark Rivers (University of Chicago)
Timing Systems
16:30 – 16:45 LCLS Timing Stephanie Allison (SLAC)
16:45 – 17:00 Micro Research Timing Components Jukka Pietarinen (Micro Research)
17:00 – 17:15 General Time issues Dave Thompson (ORNL)
17:15 – 17:30 drvTS improvements for soft timing Matthias Clausen (DESY)
17:30 – 17:45 Updating IOC Time capabilities Timo Korhonen (PSI)
Thursday (June 15th)
08:00 – 09:00 Registration desk open
Morning Infrastructure and Software Development
08:45 – 09:15 Summary of CSS / Eclipse SIG Workshop Matthias Clausen (DESY)
09:15 – 09:30 An EPICS IDE using Eclipse Kenneth Evans (Argonne)
09:30 – 09:45 The Future of Visual DCT Emma Shepherd (Diamond)
09:45 – 10:00 EPICS with Cocoa Tom Pelaia (ORNL)
10:00 – 10:15 Application error reporting with "Err" Ron MacKenzie (SLAC)
10:15 – 10:30 IOC - Relational DB Connectivity Bridge Andrei Liyu (ORNL)
10:30 – 11:00 Break, Registration desk open
11:00 – 11:15 Distributed Development Environment for ILCTA Margaret Votava (FNAL)
11:15 – 11:30 LCLS network and support planning Terri Lahey (SLAC)
11:30 – 11:45 LabVIEW to EPICS interface tools Tony Vento (National Instruments)
Embedded Controllers
11:45 – 12:00 The Cosylab MicroIOC family Gasper Pajor (CosyLab)
12:00 – 12:15 GPIB Device Control with COSYLAB microIOC Jingchen Zhou (SLAC)
12:15 – 12:30 The EPICS Brick development, application, and status David Kline (Argonne)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
Afternoon Embedded Controllers (cont.)
13:30 – 13:45 An EPICS driver for Libera electron Beam Position Monitors Michael Abbott (Diamond)
13:45 – 14:00 APS BPM and power supply applications on micro-IOCs Eric Norum (Argonne)
14:00 – 14:15 P0 Feedback: Merging EPICS & FPGA together Nicholas DiMonte (Argonne)
14:15 – 14:30 Transient Recording with a uDIM Matthias Clausen (DESY)
14:30 – 14:45 Supporting Industry Pack Cards on the IOC Blade 9010 Darrell Nineham (Hytec Electronics)
Magnet Control
14:45 – 15:00 A PMC Power Supply Controller Bob Dalesio (SLAC)
Exhibition Hour
15:00 – 16:00 Break, Registration desk open
15:00 – 16:00 Demonstrations and informal discussions in 402 Gallery
Magnet Control (cont.)
16:00 – 16:15 SNS Injection and Extraction Kicker Experience Johnny Tang (ORNL)
16:15 – 16:30 LCLS Magnet Support Debbie Rogind (SLAC)
16:30 – 16:45 LCLS Undulator Positioning Control System Shifu Xu (Argonne)
16:45 – 17:00 User Gap Controls for Mini-gap Undulators at the NSLS Bill Nolan (BNL)
Evening Banquet at Argonne Guest House
18:00 – 18:30 Drinks (cash bar)
18:30 – 20:00 Dinner: Bar-B-Que
Friday (June 16th)
08:00 – 09:00 Registration desk open
Morning EPICS Tools
09:00 – 09:15 Converting from EDD/DM to EDM Rolf Keitel (TRIUMF)
09:15 – 09:30 SNS Logbook: New features and future directions Tom Pelaia (ORNL)
09:30 – 09:45 Channel Archiver Update Kay-Uwe Kasemir (ORNL)
09:45 – 10:00 SNL Enhancements Mike Laznovsky (SLAC)
Redundancy
10:00 – 10:15 Redundancy Monitor Task Matthias Clausen (DESY)
10:15 – 10:30 Continuous Control Executive Bob Dalesio (SLAC)
10:30 – 11:00 Break, Registration desk open
High Level Applications
11:00 – 11:30 Summary of IRMIS SIG Workshop Don Dohan (Argonne)
11:30 – 11:45 Experience installing and getting started with XAL Sergei Chevtsov (SLAC)
11:45 – 12:00 XAL: Status, new features and future directions Tom Pelaia (ORNL)
12:00 – 12:30 ILC Controls Requirements Claude Saunders (Argonne)
12:30 Meeting Closes
13:30 – 14:30 Tour of APS; meet in the 402 Lobby

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