EPICS Collaboration Meeting

Nov. 13-16, 2000

held at the SNS Building
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA









Monday, November 13

Training
 
1:00 - 1:55 Windriver Systems VxWorks "Advanced Addition" / Tornado III   Wind River
2:00 - 3:00 EPICS Overview (for the uninitiated) Bob Dalesio LANL
3:10 - 4:10 Oracle Overview Jeff Patton ORNL
4:20 - 5:20 Extensible Display Manager (EDM) John Sinclair ORNL

 

Tuesday - November 14th

Status Reports:
 
8:30 - 8:55 SNS Dave Gurd LANL / ORNL / SNS
8:55 - 9:20 PSI / SLS Steve Hunt PSI
9:20 - 9:50 JLAB Karen White JLAB
9:50 - 10:10 KEK/JHF Noboru Yamamoto KEK
10:10 - 10:20 HRIBF John Sinclair ORNL
10:20 - 10:40 PCaPAC Review Matthias Clausen DESY
10:40 - 11:00 Break    
11:00 - 11:20 DESY SCADA Experience Matthias Clausen DESY
11:20 - 11:45 Gemini  Chris Mayer Gemini
11:45 - 12:00 Canadian Light Source Tony Wilson CLS

 Hardware Support
 
12:00 - 12:25 Migration to PPC at JLAB Richard Dickson JLAB
12:25 - 12:40 PPC and VXI Kristi Luchini SLAC
12:40 - 1:30 Lunch    
1:30 - 1:50 PPC at KEKB Noboru Yamamoto KEK
1:50 - 2:20 G3/FlexIO / PLC5 / VSIOD8 Carl Lionberger LBNL
2:20 - 2:30 Lecroy Digitizer Sheng Peng BNL
2:30 - 2:40 IP Support Matthias Clausen DESY
2:40 - 2:50 Serial Support Ray Juras ORNL
2:50 - 3:00 GPIB Server Stephanie Allison SLAC
3:00 - 3:15 OPC status Kay Kasemir LANL

Database Applications - Approaches to different types of problems
 
3:15 - 3:40 ControlNet on VME Johnny Tang BNL
3:40 - 4:00 Break    
4:00 - 4:25 ControlNet on Ethernet Kay Kasemir LANL

Relational DB for configuration data
 
4:25 - 4:40 Application Support at BESSY

Database Generation at BESSY

Ralph Lange BESSY
4:40 - 5:00 KEK RDB Design Noboru Yamamoto KEK
5:00 - 5:20 SNS Overall RDB Design Smita Sathe BNL
5:20 - 5:30 SNS Optics RDB Design Nikolay Militsky BNL
5:30 - 5:40 SNS EPICS Configuration Kay Kasemir LANL
5:40 - 6:00 Database Workshop Report Matt Bickley JLAB

 
 

Wednesday - November 15th

 Database Applications (continued) - Approaches to different types of problems
 
8:00 - 8:20 vxStats Database Steve Lewis LBNL
8:20 - 8:30 State of Health Richard Dickson JLAB
8:30 - 8:40 LEDA Vacuum Interlock Bob Dalesio LANL
8:40 - 9:00 Magnet Applications Matt Bickeley JLAB

 

Archiving
 
9:00 - 9:15 KEK Archiving Noboru Yamamoto KEK
9:15 - 9:30 Channel Archiver Update Kay Kasemir LANL
9:30 - 9:45 Archive Data to Oracle Lee Ann Yasukawa SLAC
9:45 - 10:30 History Sever and API Matt Bickley (for Chris Larrieu) JLAB

10:30 - 11:00 Break
 

Channel Access Client Tools
 
11:00 - 11:10 Graphical SNL at PSI Steve Hunt PSI
11:10 - 11:20 SNL Updates from SLAC Ron Chestnut SLAC
11:20 - 11:25 ALH New Features John Maclean APS
11:25 - 11:35 Striptool Update Matt Bickley (for Chris Larrieu) JLAB
11:35 - 12:00 Name Server Joan Sage JLAB
12:00 - 12:30 D0 Alarm System Geoff Savage FNL

 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
 

Display Managers
 
1:30 - 1:55 Display Manager Keepers Deb Kerstiens LANL
1:55 - 2:10 MEDM - New Features John Maclain APS
2:10 - 2:40 DM2K - Current State Steve Lewis LBNL
2:40 - 3:10 EDM John Sinclair ORNL
3:10 - 3:30 Break    
3:30 - 4:00 JAVA DM Matt Bickley JLAB

Display Managers - discussion

4:00 - 5:30 Display Manager Future Discussion, chaired by Steve Lewis
 
 
 

Thursday - November 16th

Using other tools for EPICS applications - function and limitations
 
9:00 - 10:00 SDDS  (ppt) (pdf) Mike Borland APS
10:00 - 10:30 ActiveX CA Sever / Client Kay Kasemir LANL
10:30 - 11:00  Break    
11:00 - 11:20 Tine Gateway Matthias Clausen DESY
11:20 - 11:40 ORACLE from CA
Command Server
Ron Chestnut SLAC
11:40 - 12:00 Python/TK Geoff Savage FNL

IOC Core
 
12:00 - 12:20 C++ Guidelines for Base Andrew Johnson APS
12:20 - 12:40 CA Gateway Ralph Lange BESSY
12:40 - 12:55 Channel Access Client Update Jeff Hill LANL
12:55 - 1:15 Next Generation EPICS Communications Protocols Jeff Hill LANL
1:15 - 1:30 EPICS Version 3.14 Update Marty Kraimer APS
1:30 - 1:45 EPICS Version 3.15 Update Bob Dalesio LANL

Archiving workshop

1:30 - 4:30 Archiving Workshop