ICALEPCS2023 - List of Authors (Bertrand, B.)

Paper	Title	Page
MO4BCO04	Improving Control System Software Deployment at MAX IV	201
	B. Bertrand, Á. Freitas, A.F. Joubert MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden J.T. Kowalczyk S2Innovation, Kraków, Poland
	The control systems of large research facilities like synchrotrons are composed of many different hardware and software parts. Deploying and maintaining such systems require proper workflows and tools. MAX IV has been using Ansible to manage and deploy its full control system, both software and infrastructure, for many years with great success. We detail further improvements: defining Tango devices as configuration, and automated deployment of specific packages when tagging Gitlab repos. We have now adopted Conda as our primary packaging tool instead of the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM). This allows us to keep up with the rapidly changing Python ecosystem, while at the same time decoupling Operating System upgrades from the control system software. For better management, we have developed a Prometheus-based tool that reports on the installed versions of each package on each machine. This paper will describe our workflow and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of our approach.
	Slides MO4BCO04 [1.969 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO4BCO04
About •	Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 13 October 2023 — Issued ※ 26 October 2023
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TUPDP145	Position-Based Continuous Energy Scan Status at MAX IV	917
	Á. Freitas, N.S. Al-Habib, B. Bertrand, M. Eguiraun, I. Gorgisyan, A.F. Joubert, J. Lidón-Simon, M. Lindberg, C. Takahashi MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
	The traditional approach of step scanning in X-ray experiments is often inefficient and may increase the risk of sample radiation damage. In order to overcome these challenges, a new position-based continuous energy scanning system has been developed at MAX IV Laboratory. This system enables stable and repeatable measurements by continuously moving the motors during the scan. Triggers are generated in hardware based on the motor encoder positions to ensure precise data acquisition. Prior to the scan, a list of positions is generated, and triggers are produced as each position is reached. The system uses Tango and Sardana for control and a TriggerGate controller to calculate motor positions and configure the PandABox, which generates the triggers. The system is capable of scanning a single motor, such as a sample positioner, or a combined motion like a monochromator and undulator. In addition, the system can use the parametric trajectory mode of IcePAP driver, which enables continuous scans of coupled axes with non-linear paths. This paper presents the current status of the position-based continuous energy scanning system for BioMAX, FlexPES, and FinEst beamlines at MAX IV and discusses its potential to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of data acquisition at beamline endstations.
	Poster TUPDP145 [1.943 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP145
About •	Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 23 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 29 November 2023 — Issued ※ 11 December 2023
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TH1BCO03	The Tango Controls Collaboration Status in 2023	1100
	T. Juerges SKAO, Macclesfield, United Kingdom G. Abeillé SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France R.J. Auger-Williams OSL, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom B. Bertrand, V. Hardion, A.F. Joubert MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden R. Bourtembourg, A. Götz, D. Lacoste, N. Leclercq ESRF, Grenoble, France T. Braun byte physics, Annaburg, Germany G. Cuní, C. Pascual-Izarra, S. Rubio-Manrique ALBA-CELLS, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain Yu. Matveev DESY, Hamburg, Germany M. Nabywaniec, T.R. Noga, Ł. Żytniak S2Innovation, Kraków, Poland L. Pivetta Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
	Since 2021 the Tango Controls collaboration has improved and optimised its efforts in many areas. Not only have Special Interest Group meetings (SIGs) been introduced to speed up the adoption of new technologies or improvements, the kernel has switched to a fixed six-month release cycle for quicker adoption of stable kernel versions by the community. CI/CD provides now early feedback on test failures and compatibility issues. Major code refactoring allowed for a much more efficient use of developer resources. Relevant bug fixes, improvements and new features are now adopted at a much higher rate than ever before. The community participation has also noticeably improved. The kernel switched to C++14 and the logging system is undergoing a major refactoring. Among many new features and tools is jupyTango, Jupyter Notebooks on Tango Controls steroids. PyTango is now easy to install via binary wheels, old Python versions are no longer supported, the build-system is switching to CMake, and releases are now made much closer to stable cppTango releases.
	Slides TH1BCO03 [1.357 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TH1BCO03
About •	Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 24 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 21 November 2023 — Issued ※ 13 December 2023
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THPDP050	Improving User Experience and Performance in Sardana and Taurus: A Status Report and Roadmap	1420
	Z. Reszela, J. Aguilar Larruy, M. Caixal i Joaniquet, G. Cuní, R. Homs-Puron, E. Morales, M. Navarro, C. Pascual-Izarra, J.A. Ramos, S. Rubio-Manrique, O. Vallcorba ALBA-CELLS, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain B. Bertrand, J. Forsberg MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden M.T. Núñez Pardo de Vera DESY, Hamburg, Germany M. Piekarski NSRC SOLARIS, Kraków, Poland D. Schick MBI, Berlin, Germany
	Sardana Suite is an open-source scientific SCADA solution used in synchrotron light beamlines at ALBA, DESY, MAXIV and SOLARIS and in laser labs at MBI-Berlin. It is formed by Sardana and Taurus - both mature projects, driven by a community of users and developers for more than 10 years. Sardana provides a low level interface to the hardware, middle level abstractions and a sequence engine. Taurus is a library for developing graphical user interfaces. Sardana Suite uses client - server architecture and is built on top of TANGO. As a community, during the last few years, on one hand we were focusing on improving user experience, especially in terms of reliability and performance and on the other hand renewing the dependency stack. The system is now more stable, easier to debug and recover from a failure. An important effort was put in profiling and improving performance of Taurus applications startup. The codebase has been migrated to Python 3 and the plotting widgets were rewritten with pyqtgraph. This didn’t prevent us from delivering new features, like for example the long-awaited configuration tools and format based on YAML which is easy and intuitive to edit, browse, and track historical changes. Now we conclude this phase in the project’s lifetimes and are preparing for new challenging requirements in the area of continuous scans like higher data throughput and more complex synchronization configurations. Here we present the status report and the future roadmap.
	Poster THPDP050 [0.605 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP050
About •	Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Revised ※ 26 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 13 December 2023 — Issued ※ 21 December 2023
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Paper

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Improving Control System Software Deployment at MAX IV

201

B. Bertrand, Á. Freitas, A.F. Joubert
MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
J.T. Kowalczyk
S2Innovation, Kraków, Poland

The control systems of large research facilities like synchrotrons are composed of many different hardware and software parts. Deploying and maintaining such systems require proper workflows and tools. MAX IV has been using Ansible to manage and deploy its full control system, both software and infrastructure, for many years with great success. We detail further improvements: defining Tango devices as configuration, and automated deployment of specific packages when tagging Gitlab repos. We have now adopted Conda as our primary packaging tool instead of the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM). This allows us to keep up with the rapidly changing Python ecosystem, while at the same time decoupling Operating System upgrades from the control system software. For better management, we have developed a Prometheus-based tool that reports on the installed versions of each package on each machine. This paper will describe our workflow and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of our approach.

Slides MO4BCO04 [1.969 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO4BCO04

About •

Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 13 October 2023 — Issued ※ 26 October 2023

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reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)

TUPDP145

Position-Based Continuous Energy Scan Status at MAX IV

917

Á. Freitas, N.S. Al-Habib, B. Bertrand, M. Eguiraun, I. Gorgisyan, A.F. Joubert, J. Lidón-Simon, M. Lindberg, C. Takahashi
MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

The traditional approach of step scanning in X-ray experiments is often inefficient and may increase the risk of sample radiation damage. In order to overcome these challenges, a new position-based continuous energy scanning system has been developed at MAX IV Laboratory. This system enables stable and repeatable measurements by continuously moving the motors during the scan. Triggers are generated in hardware based on the motor encoder positions to ensure precise data acquisition. Prior to the scan, a list of positions is generated, and triggers are produced as each position is reached. The system uses Tango and Sardana for control and a TriggerGate controller to calculate motor positions and configure the PandABox, which generates the triggers. The system is capable of scanning a single motor, such as a sample positioner, or a combined motion like a monochromator and undulator. In addition, the system can use the parametric trajectory mode of IcePAP driver, which enables continuous scans of coupled axes with non-linear paths. This paper presents the current status of the position-based continuous energy scanning system for BioMAX, FlexPES, and FinEst beamlines at MAX IV and discusses its potential to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of data acquisition at beamline endstations.

Poster TUPDP145 [1.943 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP145

About •

Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 23 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 29 November 2023 — Issued ※ 11 December 2023

Cite •

reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)

TH1BCO03

The Tango Controls Collaboration Status in 2023

1100

T. Juerges
SKAO, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
G. Abeillé
SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
R.J. Auger-Williams
OSL, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
B. Bertrand, V. Hardion, A.F. Joubert
MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
R. Bourtembourg, A. Götz, D. Lacoste, N. Leclercq
ESRF, Grenoble, France
T. Braun
byte physics, Annaburg, Germany
G. Cuní, C. Pascual-Izarra, S. Rubio-Manrique
ALBA-CELLS, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
Yu. Matveev
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
M. Nabywaniec, T.R. Noga, Ł. Żytniak
S2Innovation, Kraków, Poland
L. Pivetta
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy

Since 2021 the Tango Controls collaboration has improved and optimised its efforts in many areas. Not only have Special Interest Group meetings (SIGs) been introduced to speed up the adoption of new technologies or improvements, the kernel has switched to a fixed six-month release cycle for quicker adoption of stable kernel versions by the community. CI/CD provides now early feedback on test failures and compatibility issues. Major code refactoring allowed for a much more efficient use of developer resources. Relevant bug fixes, improvements and new features are now adopted at a much higher rate than ever before. The community participation has also noticeably improved. The kernel switched to C++14 and the logging system is undergoing a major refactoring. Among many new features and tools is jupyTango, Jupyter Notebooks on Tango Controls steroids. PyTango is now easy to install via binary wheels, old Python versions are no longer supported, the build-system is switching to CMake, and releases are now made much closer to stable cppTango releases.

Slides TH1BCO03 [1.357 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TH1BCO03

About •

Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 24 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 21 November 2023 — Issued ※ 13 December 2023

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THPDP050

Improving User Experience and Performance in Sardana and Taurus: A Status Report and Roadmap

1420

Z. Reszela, J. Aguilar Larruy, M. Caixal i Joaniquet, G. Cuní, R. Homs-Puron, E. Morales, M. Navarro, C. Pascual-Izarra, J.A. Ramos, S. Rubio-Manrique, O. Vallcorba
ALBA-CELLS, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
B. Bertrand, J. Forsberg
MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
M.T. Núñez Pardo de Vera
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
M. Piekarski
NSRC SOLARIS, Kraków, Poland
D. Schick
MBI, Berlin, Germany

Sardana Suite is an open-source scientific SCADA solution used in synchrotron light beamlines at ALBA, DESY, MAXIV and SOLARIS and in laser labs at MBI-Berlin. It is formed by Sardana and Taurus - both mature projects, driven by a community of users and developers for more than 10 years. Sardana provides a low level interface to the hardware, middle level abstractions and a sequence engine. Taurus is a library for developing graphical user interfaces. Sardana Suite uses client - server architecture and is built on top of TANGO. As a community, during the last few years, on one hand we were focusing on improving user experience, especially in terms of reliability and performance and on the other hand renewing the dependency stack. The system is now more stable, easier to debug and recover from a failure. An important effort was put in profiling and improving performance of Taurus applications startup. The codebase has been migrated to Python 3 and the plotting widgets were rewritten with pyqtgraph. This didn’t prevent us from delivering new features, like for example the long-awaited configuration tools and format based on YAML which is easy and intuitive to edit, browse, and track historical changes. Now we conclude this phase in the project’s lifetimes and are preparing for new challenging requirements in the area of continuous scans like higher data throughput and more complex synchronization configurations. Here we present the status report and the future roadmap.

Poster THPDP050 [0.605 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP050

About •

Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Revised ※ 26 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 13 December 2023 — Issued ※ 21 December 2023

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