EPICS 1999 at SLAC

Agenda Topics

Collaboration Meeting starts Wednesday May 26, 1999.

Monday May 24

SLAC Training Center

TRAINING

9:00am
Overview - Ralph Lange
Database Introduction - Ralph Lange
SNL Introduction - Ron Chestnut
EDD/DM Introduction - Ron Chestnut
pm
Portable Server Library - Jeff Hill
Application Development Environments - Pamela Gurd
Writing a CA Client - Bob Dalesio
Advanced Database - Bob Dalesio

Tuesday May 25

SLAC Auditorium

NLC & EPICS WORKSHOP (SCALING ISSUES)

9:00
Inspirational Introduction and Benediction - Spencer Clark, SLAC
NLC Requirements - Hamid Shoaee, SLAC
Middleware and Servers for the NLC - Bob Sass, SLAC
10:30 Break
Scaling Issues: How to Make EPICS Fit NLC - Mark Crane, SLAC
Synchronization Issues: EPICS for Pulsed Machines - Mark Crane, SLAC
Round Table Discussion
Lunch Break
1:00
Architectural Choices - Steve Lewis, SNS
Archiving and Data Handling Requirements - LeeAnn Yasukawa, SLAC
Discussion
2:30 Break
Enterprise-Wide Database for NLC - Judy Rock, SLAC
CMLOG: Current and Future Use [ pdf, ppt ] - Ron MacKenzie, SLAC
Feedback Requirements - Linda Hendrickson, SLAC

Wednesday May 26

SLAC Auditorium

STATUS

9:00 - 9:15 am PEP II Status - Ron Chestnut, SLAC
9:15 - 9:30 am BaBar Status - Jim Olsen, SLAC
9:30 - 9:45 am KEKB Status - Tatsuro Nakamura, KEK
9:45 - 10:00 am NSTX Status - Paul Sichta, PPPL
10:00 - 10:15 am Keck I, II, Interferometer and Adaptive Optics - William Lupton, Keck
10:15 - 10:30 am Gemini Status - Andy Foster, NOAO
Break
11:00 - 11:15 am TRIUMF/ISAC Radioactive Beam Facility - Jane Richards, TRIUMF
11:15 - 11:30 am BESSY II Update - Ralph Lange, BESSY

APPLICATIONS

11:30 - 11:45 am A Proposed Application Development Environment for SNS - Johnny Tang, BNL
11:45 - 12:00 pm Application Development Environment at LEDA - Rozelle Wright, LANL
Lunch Break
12:00 - 12:15 pm Application Development Environment - Sally Schaffner, Jefferson Lab
12:15 - 12:30 pm RDIST for Application Development Environment - Ralph Lange, BESSY
2:00 - 2:15 pm EPICS Channel Access Python Extensions [ pdf, ppt, ps ] - Fritz Bartlett, FNAL
2:15 - 2:30 pm Python / CA Tatsuro Nakamura, KEK
2:30 - 2:45 pm Device Oriented Class Library for CA - Ralph Lange, BESSY
2:45 - 3:00 pm Configuration DB - Thomas Birke, BESSY
3:00 - 3:15 pm Oracle database Repository for EPICS [ pdf, ppt, ps ] - Fritz Bartlett, FNAL
3:15 - 3:30 pm Issues when using a Power PC - Miroslaw Dach, PSI
3:30 - 3:45 pm Towards an EPICS Modeling Language - Tom Meyer, Iowa State
Break

TOOLS

4:15 - 4:30 pm PADL - Joan Sage, LANL
4:30 - 4:45 pm ActiveX CA Server - Kay Kasemir, LANL
4:45 - 5:00 pm CMLOG [ frames, no frames ] - Ron MacKenzie, SLAC
5:00 - 5:15 pm Logging Interface for ALH - Ralph Lange, BESSY

Thursday May 27

SLAC Auditorium

CORE

9:00 - 9:15 am DM2K Display Manager - Thomas Birke, BESSY
9:15 - 9:30 am An Extensible Display Manager for EPICS - J. Sinclair & R. Juras, Oak Ridge
9:30 - 9:45 am Archiver, Tools and RDB tests - K. Kasemir & B. Dalesio, LANL
9:45 - 10:00 am Striptool: XARR Update and Plans - Chris Larrieu, Jefferson Lab
10:00 - 10:15 am Generating SNL Code from State Diagrams - Miroslaw Dach, PSI
10:15 - 10:30 am Porting the database - Marty Kraimer, ANL
10:30 - 10:40 am Y2K - Marty Kraimer, ANL
Break
11:00 - 11:15 am JCA: JAVA to Channel Access V3 Class Structure - Eric Boucher, ANL
11:15 - 11:30 am Channel Access V4 - Jeff Hill, LANL
11:30 - 12:10 am Gateway Update - Special Guest, ANL
Lunch Break
2:00 - 2:15 pm SNL Enhancements - G. White, SLAC & W. Lupton, Keck
2:15 - 2:45 pm Link Support - Andrew Johnson, ANL
2:45 - 2:55 pm CVS Repository for Drivers - Andrew Johnson, ANL

DRIVERS and DEVICE SUPPORT

2:55 - 3:05 pm IP Support - Andrew Johnson, ANL
3:05 - 3:15 pm New Field Buses - SNS
3:15 - 3:25 pm A Collaborative PLC Lab for SNS - Johnny Tang, BNL
Break
4:00 - 4:30 pm D0 Extension to EPICS [ pdf, ppt, ps ] - Fritz Bartlett, FNAL
4:30 - 4:40 pm Timing Upgrade - Jeff Hill, LANL
4:40 - 4:50 pm Allen Bradley - Jeff Hill, LANL
4:50 - 5:00 pm Modbus / Metasys - Bob Dalesio, LANL
5:00 - 5:10 pm Modicon Quantum PLCs via TCP/IP - Jane Richards, TRIUMF
5:10 - 5:20 pm Virtual VME Device Support - Jane Richards, TRIUMF
5:20 - 5:30 pm EPICS on cPCI - Bill Brown, LBL
5:30 - 5:40 pm Image Collection at PSI - Miroslaw Dach, PSI
Evening
7:00pm BANQUET

Friday May 28

SLAC Training Center

WORKSHOPS - Workshop time if desired by collaboration

Am
Channel Access V4 API - Jeff Hill
Pm
Future Direction for Graphical User Interface