agenda for the EPICS workshop

[Matthias Clausen DESY -MKV2/KRYK- <CLAUS@vxhera.desy.de>]

Dear all,

the EPICS workshop at CERN will now take place in two weeks and we are
about to be able to present a nice agenda to you.
The meeting will be held at CERN ( room to be announced)

The 25th is dedicated to trainings. The morning is more general while the 
evening will also be used to go more into detail of installations etc.
Please let me know whether this fits your ideas of this day and how many 
will join! 
If the installation issues are not of enough importance we can extend the 
more general introduction.
A CERN tour might be also arranged this day (evening).

The 26/27 will be the EPICS workshop on the topics metioned in the agenda.
We shall start with an introduction from all participants in order to get 
to know the various installations and to understand each others specific 
problems. If someone is not yet mentioned here  - please let me know!
If someone is mentioned - and was not asked before - please confirm or 
shout at me.

For our social programme a common dinner is proposed for thursday evening 
and an additional visit to the main control room is proposed.

Please let me know whether you have additional points you would like to be 
addressed and/or you would be willing to present.

The time-table will be prepared as soon as we've got your feedback and 
we'll be able to rearrange the agenda.

Looking forward to see you all at CERN.

Matthias

p.s.
those of you who still did not register - think of it - it seems we'll be 
having an interesting workshop!


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Wednesday
Training:
	Overview		Bob Dalesio
	Channel Access		Gabor Csuka
	Database		Ralph Lange
	Sequencer		??
	Operator Interfces	Thomas Birke
	Archiving		Matthias Clausen

EPICS installation:
	Experience starting with EPICS		Bill Brown (LBL)
	Experience with CVS			Gabor Csuka
	New Database Issues (discussion)	Moderator: G. Csuka
	Open discussion..........

CERN-TRIP:

	---------------------------------------------

Thursday Morning
Welcome from CERN		Fabien Perriollat
	Current Status of evaluation 
				
Experience using EPICS
Project List:	(5-10 minutes each)
	BESSY II		Roland Mueller
	DESY			Matthias Clausen
	BaBar			Carl Lionberger
	CEBAF			Chip Watson
	APS			Marty Kraimer
	Telsla Inj		Jean-Francois Gournay
	RGO			Andrew Johnson
	CFHT			Peregrine McGehee
	LBNL			Bill Brown
	MPA-Garching		Hans-Christoph Holstenberg
	IAC			Marti Pi i Puig 
	LSB			Josep Perlas
	IASA			Stathis Stiliaris
	TH-Darmstadt		Ralf Eichhorn
	MIT Bates		Sibley

	Any other projects that will be represented.......

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Hardware Support -
IOCs/CPU
	IRM - 			Matthias Claussen
	Pentium - 		Bob Dalesio
	Pentium perspective -	Matthias Claussen
	Sparc-5 - 		Peregrine McGhee
	Power PC		??
Fieldbuses
	Comment - VME,VXI,GPIB,Bitbus,CAMAC,Profibus,Allen-Bradley,Modbus+
	CANbus - 		Andrew Johnson
	CANbus - 		Gabor Csuka
	CANbus - 		Ralph Lange
	Why are there three drivers -and which should I use?

	Profibus -		Matthias Clausen
	WORDFIP -		CERN-NN
	PCI - 			Bob Dalesio

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Thursday Afternoon
New Communication Developments
- interfaces to non-EPICS based "legacy" control systems
	portable CA server	Gabor Csuka
	CA gateway		Marty Kraimer
	cdev			Chip Watson
	channel access issues	Bob Dalesio

New Database Developments
	ASCII database issues	Marty Kraimer
	ORACLE-dct		Matthias Clausen
	ORACLE devel. @BESSY	NN
	Online add/delete	Marty Kraimer
	Bumpless Reboot		Carl Lionberger

Hardware Configuration Issues ( discussion)
	future of module_types.h	Marty Kraimer

	---------------------------------------------

Friday Morning
OPI's - where to go, what to choose
	(edd/dm,medm,IDL,PV-WAve,SL-GMS,Dataview,Labview,Mathmatica,
	 tcl/TK,visualBasic...)
	Striptool		Chip Watson
	Correlation Plots	Chip Watson
	BESSY visualization	Thomas Birke
	NT-based		Bob Dalesio

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Archiving
	DESY - 			Matthias Clausen
	CEBAF Plan - 		Chip Watson
	BESSY needs -		Thomas Birke


Friday Afternoon
New Developments for Java and WWW
	Java - new Chances	Chip Watson
	WWW Operator Tool(s)	Matthias Clausen
	WWW for Diagnostics	Matthias Clausen

What kind of support is needed within Europe? (Chair: Andrew Johnson?)
	Distribution of software,
	docs and web-pages
	Installation support
	Training
	Help
	management and visibility of current developments
	distribution and mail list
	mirror site
	What kind of special interest do we have?
		drive some developpement?
		GUI pakage integration?

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Special requirements for installations in:
	HEP-experiments			Helfried
	Astronomy - 			Andrew Johnson
	Light Sources - 		Roland Mueller

Next meeting:
	where
	->how to organize


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actual list of participants:

!
! INFN
!
mx%"bellato@lnl.infn.it"	!	Marco Bellato
MX%"Marco.Angelo.Bellato@cern.ch"
MX%"giacchini@lnl.infn.it"	!	Mauro Giacchini
!
! CERN
!
How many?

!
! LBL
!
MX%"wbrown@csg.lbl.gov"		!	Bill Brown		

!
! LSB - Synchrotron Laboratory of Barcelona
!
MX%"perlas@IFAE.ES"		!	Josep Perlas
				!	Josep Campmany
!
! Intense Pulsed Neutron Source
! Argonne National Laboratory
!
MX%"john_hammonds@qmgate.anl.gov" !	John Hammonds
Marty Kraimer

!
! TJNAF (CEBAF)
! 
Chip Watson

!
! Los Alamos
!
Bob Dalesio

!
! Institute of Accelerating Systems
! & Applications (IASA)
! P.O.Box 17214
! GR-10024 ATHENS
!
! 2 students / Dr. Rahmani
MX%"stathis@rtm.iasa.uoa.gr"	!	Stathis Stiliaris
( training and meeting)


MX%"eichhorn@linac.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de" !	Ralf Eichhorn

!
! MIT Bates Linear Accelerator Center
! 21 Manning Road
! Middleton MA 01949
! 617-253-9518
!
MX%"SIBLEY@BATES.MIT.EDU"

!
! DESY
!
Gabor Csuka		(T)+W
Matthias Clausen	(T)+W
Peter Urbschat		T+W
Volker Singhoff		T+W
Michael Schoener	T+W

!
! BESSY
!
?

!
! SACLAY
!
MX%"gournay@sigx0.saclay.cea.fr" 	!	Jean-Francois Gournay
MX%"fgougna@cea.fr"			!	Francoise Gougnaud
MX%"lussi@cea.fr"			!	Yves Lussignol

!
!  O o ._    Andrew Johnson, Royal Greenwich Observatory
!    __\\_      Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EZ,  UK
!
MX%"anj@ast.cam.ac.uk"	!	Andrew Johnson
MX%"pbt@ast.cam.ac.uk"	!	Philip Taylor

!
! Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT)
!
mx%"McGeheemcgehee@cfht.hawaii.edu"	!	Peregrine McGehee

!
! Max-Planck-Institut f. extraterrestrische Physik Muenchen / Garching
!
MX%"hch@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE"		!	Hans-Christoph Holstenberg
!
! Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC)
! Technology Division, Software Engineering Department
! c/ Via Lactea s/n    
!
mx%"mpuig@iac.es"		!	Marti Pi i Puig
!
! Berkeley National Laboratory
!
mx%"CALionberger@lbl.gov"	!	Carl Lionberger