ICALEPCS2023 - List of Authors (Lange, R.)

Paper	Title	Page
TUMBCMO01	Extending the Coverage of Automated Testing in ITER’s Control System Software Distribution	338
	R. Lange, H. Kim, A. Žagar ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France V. Costa, J. Nieto, M. Ruiz UPM-I2A2, Madrid, Spain
	Funding: Partially funded by PID2019-108377RB-C33/MCIN/AEI (Agencia Estatal de Investigación) /10.13039/501100011033 and PID2022-137680OB-C33/MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 / FEDER/ and the European Union. As part of the effort to standardize the control system environment of ITER’s in-kind delivered >170 plant systems, the Controls Division publishes CODAC Core System (CCS), a complete Linux-based control system software distribution. In the past, a large part of the integrated and end-to-end software testing for CCS was executed manually, using many long and complex test plan documents. As the project progress introduces increasing scope and higher quality requirements, that approach was not maintainable in the long term. ITER CODAC and its partners have started a multi-year effort converting manual tests to automated tests, inside the so-called Framework for Integration Testing (FIT), which itself is being developed and gradually extended as part of the effort. This software framework is complemented by a dedicated hardware test stand setup, comprising specimens of the different controllers and I/O hardware supported by CCS. FIT and the test stand will allow to run fully scripted hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) tests and allow functional verification of specific software modules as well as different end-to-end use cases.
	Slides TUMBCMO01 [1.306 MB]
	Poster TUMBCMO01 [10.356 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUMBCMO01
About •	Received ※ 04 October 2023 — Revised ※ 10 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 28 November 2023 — Issued ※ 09 December 2023
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TUSDSC08	Phoebus Tools and Services	944
	K. Shroff BNL, Upton, New York, USA T. Ashwarya FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA T.M. Ford LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA K.-U. Kasemir ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA R. Lange ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France G. Weiss ESS, Lund, Sweden
	The Phoebus toolkit consists of a variety of control system applications providing user interfaces to control systems and middle-layer services. Phoebus is the latest incarnation of Control System Studio (CS-Studio), which has been redesigned replacing the underlying Eclipse RCP framework with standard Java alternatives like SPI, preferences, etc. Additionally the GUI toolkit was switched from SWT to JavaFX. This new architecture has not only simplified the development process while preserving the extensible and pluggable aspects of RCP, but also improved the performance and reliability of the entire toolkit. The Phoebus technology stack includes a set of middle-layer services that provide functionality like archiving, creating and restoring system snapshots, consolidating and organizing alarms, user logging, name lookup, etc. Designed around modern and widely used web and storage technologies like Spring Boot, Elastic, MongoDB, Kafka, the Phoebus middle-layer services are thin, scalable, and can be easily incorporated in CI/CD pipelines. The clients in Phoebus leverage the toolkit’s integration features, including common interfaces and utility services like adapter and selection, to provide users with a seamless experience when interacting with multiple services and control systems. This presentation aims to provide an overview of the Phoebus technology stack, highlighting the benefits of integrated tools in Phoebus and the microservices architecture of Phoebus middle-layer services.
	Poster TUSDSC08 [0.816 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUSDSC08
About •	Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Revised ※ 09 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 23 November 2023 — Issued ※ 30 November 2023
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TH1BCO01	Five years of EPICS 7 - Status Update and Roadmap	1087
	R. Lange ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France L.R. Dalesio, M.A. Davidsaver, G.S. McIntyre Osprey DCS LLC, Ocean City, USA S.M. Hartman, K.-U. Kasemir ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA A.N. Johnson, S. Veseli ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA H. Junkes FHI, Berlin, Germany T. Korhonen, S.C.F. Rose ESS, Lund, Sweden M.R. Kraimer Self Employment, Private address, USA K. Shroff BNL, Upton, New York, USA G.R. White SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: Work supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under contracts DE-AC02-76SF00515 and DE-AC05-00OR22725. After its first release in 2017, EPICS version 7 has been introduced into production at several sites. The central feature of EPICS 7, the support of structured data through the new pvAccess network protocol, has been proven to work in large production systems. EPICS 7 facilitates the implementation of new functionality, including developing AI/ML applications in controls, managing large data volumes, interfacing to middle-layer services, and more. Other features like support for the IPv6 protocol and enhancements to access control have been implemented. Future work includes integrating a refactored API into the core distribution, adding modern network security features, as well as developing new and enhancing existing services that take advantage of these new capabilities. The talk will give an overview of the status of deployments, new additions to the EPICS Core, and an overview of its planned future development.
	Slides TH1BCO01 [0.562 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TH1BCO01
About •	Received ※ 04 October 2023 — Revised ※ 12 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 19 November 2023 — Issued ※ 24 November 2023
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Paper

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Extending the Coverage of Automated Testing in ITER’s Control System Software Distribution

338

R. Lange, H. Kim, A. Žagar
ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France
V. Costa, J. Nieto, M. Ruiz
UPM-I2A2, Madrid, Spain

Funding: Partially funded by PID2019-108377RB-C33/MCIN/AEI (Agencia Estatal de Investigación) /10.13039/501100011033 and PID2022-137680OB-C33/MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 / FEDER/ and the European Union.
As part of the effort to standardize the control system environment of ITER’s in-kind delivered >170 plant systems, the Controls Division publishes CODAC Core System (CCS), a complete Linux-based control system software distribution. In the past, a large part of the integrated and end-to-end software testing for CCS was executed manually, using many long and complex test plan documents. As the project progress introduces increasing scope and higher quality requirements, that approach was not maintainable in the long term. ITER CODAC and its partners have started a multi-year effort converting manual tests to automated tests, inside the so-called Framework for Integration Testing (FIT), which itself is being developed and gradually extended as part of the effort. This software framework is complemented by a dedicated hardware test stand setup, comprising specimens of the different controllers and I/O hardware supported by CCS. FIT and the test stand will allow to run fully scripted hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) tests and allow functional verification of specific software modules as well as different end-to-end use cases.

Slides TUMBCMO01 [1.306 MB]

Poster TUMBCMO01 [10.356 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUMBCMO01

About •

Received ※ 04 October 2023 — Revised ※ 10 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 28 November 2023 — Issued ※ 09 December 2023

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TUSDSC08

Phoebus Tools and Services

944

K. Shroff
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
T. Ashwarya
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
T.M. Ford
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
K.-U. Kasemir
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
R. Lange
ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France
G. Weiss
ESS, Lund, Sweden

The Phoebus toolkit consists of a variety of control system applications providing user interfaces to control systems and middle-layer services. Phoebus is the latest incarnation of Control System Studio (CS-Studio), which has been redesigned replacing the underlying Eclipse RCP framework with standard Java alternatives like SPI, preferences, etc. Additionally the GUI toolkit was switched from SWT to JavaFX. This new architecture has not only simplified the development process while preserving the extensible and pluggable aspects of RCP, but also improved the performance and reliability of the entire toolkit. The Phoebus technology stack includes a set of middle-layer services that provide functionality like archiving, creating and restoring system snapshots, consolidating and organizing alarms, user logging, name lookup, etc. Designed around modern and widely used web and storage technologies like Spring Boot, Elastic, MongoDB, Kafka, the Phoebus middle-layer services are thin, scalable, and can be easily incorporated in CI/CD pipelines. The clients in Phoebus leverage the toolkit’s integration features, including common interfaces and utility services like adapter and selection, to provide users with a seamless experience when interacting with multiple services and control systems. This presentation aims to provide an overview of the Phoebus technology stack, highlighting the benefits of integrated tools in Phoebus and the microservices architecture of Phoebus middle-layer services.

Poster TUSDSC08 [0.816 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUSDSC08

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Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Revised ※ 09 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 23 November 2023 — Issued ※ 30 November 2023

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TH1BCO01

Five years of EPICS 7 - Status Update and Roadmap

1087

R. Lange
ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France
L.R. Dalesio, M.A. Davidsaver, G.S. McIntyre
Osprey DCS LLC, Ocean City, USA
S.M. Hartman, K.-U. Kasemir
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
A.N. Johnson, S. Veseli
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
H. Junkes
FHI, Berlin, Germany
T. Korhonen, S.C.F. Rose
ESS, Lund, Sweden
M.R. Kraimer
Self Employment, Private address, USA
K. Shroff
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
G.R. White
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: Work supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under contracts DE-AC02-76SF00515 and DE-AC05-00OR22725.
After its first release in 2017, EPICS version 7 has been introduced into production at several sites. The central feature of EPICS 7, the support of structured data through the new pvAccess network protocol, has been proven to work in large production systems. EPICS 7 facilitates the implementation of new functionality, including developing AI/ML applications in controls, managing large data volumes, interfacing to middle-layer services, and more. Other features like support for the IPv6 protocol and enhancements to access control have been implemented. Future work includes integrating a refactored API into the core distribution, adding modern network security features, as well as developing new and enhancing existing services that take advantage of these new capabilities. The talk will give an overview of the status of deployments, new additions to the EPICS Core, and an overview of its planned future development.

Slides TH1BCO01 [0.562 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TH1BCO01

About •

Received ※ 04 October 2023 — Revised ※ 12 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 19 November 2023 — Issued ※ 24 November 2023

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