ICALEPCS2023 - List of Authors (Rubio-Manrique, S.)

Paper	Title	Page
TUPDP076	Preliminary Design for the ALBA II Control System Stack	685
	S. Rubio-Manrique, F. Becheri, G. Cuní, R.H. Homs, Z. Reszela ALBA-CELLS, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	One of the main pillars of the ALBA Synchrotron Light Source (Barcelona, Spain) Strategy Plan is the preparation of ALBA to be upgraded to a fourth-generation light source. To accomplish this, a preliminary design of the accelerator has already been initiated in 2021. On the Computing side, the upgrade of the accelerator will require a comprehensive overhaul of most parts of the Control System, DAQ, Timing, and many other systems as well as DevOps strategies. This need for a major redesign will bring new architectural challenges, and opportunities to benefit from new technologies that were not present at the time ALBA was designed and build. This paper presents the preliminary design studies, pilot projects, new approaches to development coordination and management, and the preparation plan to acquire the knowledge and experience needed to excel in the ALBA II Control System Stack design.
	Poster TUPDP076 [1.095 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP076
About •	Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Revised ※ 11 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 14 December 2023 — Issued ※ 17 December 2023
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TUPDP077	Towards the ALBA II : the Computing Division Preliminary Study	691
	O. Matilla, J.A. Avila-Abellan, F. Becheri, S. Blanch-Torné, A.M. Burillo, A. Camps Gimenez, I. Costa, G. Cuní, T. Fernández Maltas, R.H. Homs, J. Moldes, E. Morales, C. Pascual-Izarra, S. Pusó Gallart, A. Pérez Font, Z. Reszela, B. Revuelta, A. Rubio, S. Rubio-Manrique, J. Salabert, N. Serra, X. Serra-Gallifa, N. Soler, S. Vicente Molina, J. Villanueva ALBA-CELLS, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	The ALBA Synchrotron has started the work for up-grading the accelerator and beamlines towards a 4th gen-eration source, the future ALBA II, in 2030. A complete redesign of the magnets lattice and an upgrade of the beamlines will be required. But in addition, the success of the ALBA II project will depend on multiple factors. First, after thirteen years in operation, all the subsystems of the current accelerator must be revised. To guarantee their lifetime until 2060, all the possible ageing and obsoles-cence factors must be considered. Besides, many tech-nical enhancements have improved performance and reliability in recent years. Using the latest technologies will also avoid obsolescence in the medium term, both in the hardware and the software. Considering this, the pro-ject ALBA II Computing Preliminary Study (ALBA II CPS) was launched in mid-2021, identifying 11 work packages. In each one, a group of experts were selected to analyze the different challenges and needs in the compu-ting and electronics fields for future accelerator design: from power supplies technologies, IOC architectures, or PLC-based automation systems to synchronization needs, controls software stack, IT Systems infrastructure or ma-chine learning opportunities. Now, we have a clearer picture of what is required. Hence, we can build a realistic project plan to ensure the success of the ALBA II. It is time to get ALBA II off the ground.
	Poster TUPDP077 [0.687 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP077
About •	Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 09 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 11 December 2023 — Issued ※ 15 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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THMBCMO01	New Developements on HDB++, the High-performance Data Archiving for Tango Controls	1190
	D. Lacoste, R. Bourtembourg ESRF, Grenoble, France J. Forsberg MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden T. Juerges SKAO, Macclesfield, United Kingdom J.J.D. Mol ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands L. Pivetta, G. Scalamera Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy S. Rubio-Manrique ALBA-CELLS, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	The Tango HDB++ project is a high performance event-driven archiving system which stores data with micro-second resolution timestamps. HDB++ supports many different backends, including MySQL/MariaDB, TimeScaleDB (a time-series PostgreSQL extension), and soon SQLite. Building on its flexible design, latest developments made supporting new backends even easier. HDB++ keeps improving with new features such as batch insertion and by becoming easier to install or setup in a testing environment, using ready to use docker images and striving to simplify all the steps of deployment. The HDB++ project is not only a data storage installation, but a full ecosystem to manage data, query it, and get the information needed. In this effort a lot of tools were developed to put a powerful backend to its proper use and be able to get the best out of the stored data. In this paper we will present as well the latest developments in data extraction, from low level libraries to web viewer integration such as grafana. Pointing out strategies in use in terms of data decimation, compression and others to help deliver data as fast as possible.
	Slides THMBCMO01 [0.926 MB]
	Poster THMBCMO01 [0.726 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THMBCMO01
About •	Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 24 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 08 December 2023 — Issued ※ 16 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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Preliminary Design for the ALBA II Control System Stack

685

S. Rubio-Manrique, F. Becheri, G. Cuní, R.H. Homs, Z. Reszela
ALBA-CELLS, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

One of the main pillars of the ALBA Synchrotron Light Source (Barcelona, Spain) Strategy Plan is the preparation of ALBA to be upgraded to a fourth-generation light source. To accomplish this, a preliminary design of the accelerator has already been initiated in 2021. On the Computing side, the upgrade of the accelerator will require a comprehensive overhaul of most parts of the Control System, DAQ, Timing, and many other systems as well as DevOps strategies. This need for a major redesign will bring new architectural challenges, and opportunities to benefit from new technologies that were not present at the time ALBA was designed and build. This paper presents the preliminary design studies, pilot projects, new approaches to development coordination and management, and the preparation plan to acquire the knowledge and experience needed to excel in the ALBA II Control System Stack design.

Poster TUPDP076 [1.095 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP076

About •

Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Revised ※ 11 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 14 December 2023 — Issued ※ 17 December 2023

Cite •

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

TUPDP077

Towards the ALBA II : the Computing Division Preliminary Study

691

O. Matilla, J.A. Avila-Abellan, F. Becheri, S. Blanch-Torné, A.M. Burillo, A. Camps Gimenez, I. Costa, G. Cuní, T. Fernández Maltas, R.H. Homs, J. Moldes, E. Morales, C. Pascual-Izarra, S. Pusó Gallart, A. Pérez Font, Z. Reszela, B. Revuelta, A. Rubio, S. Rubio-Manrique, J. Salabert, N. Serra, X. Serra-Gallifa, N. Soler, S. Vicente Molina, J. Villanueva
ALBA-CELLS, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

The ALBA Synchrotron has started the work for up-grading the accelerator and beamlines towards a 4th gen-eration source, the future ALBA II, in 2030. A complete redesign of the magnets lattice and an upgrade of the beamlines will be required. But in addition, the success of the ALBA II project will depend on multiple factors. First, after thirteen years in operation, all the subsystems of the current accelerator must be revised. To guarantee their lifetime until 2060, all the possible ageing and obsoles-cence factors must be considered. Besides, many tech-nical enhancements have improved performance and reliability in recent years. Using the latest technologies will also avoid obsolescence in the medium term, both in the hardware and the software. Considering this, the pro-ject ALBA II Computing Preliminary Study (ALBA II CPS) was launched in mid-2021, identifying 11 work packages. In each one, a group of experts were selected to analyze the different challenges and needs in the compu-ting and electronics fields for future accelerator design: from power supplies technologies, IOC architectures, or PLC-based automation systems to synchronization needs, controls software stack, IT Systems infrastructure or ma-chine learning opportunities. Now, we have a clearer picture of what is required. Hence, we can build a realistic project plan to ensure the success of the ALBA II. It is time to get ALBA II off the ground.

Poster TUPDP077 [0.687 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP077

About •

Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 09 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 11 December 2023 — Issued ※ 15 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

Cite •

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

THMBCMO01

New Developements on HDB++, the High-performance Data Archiving for Tango Controls

1190

D. Lacoste, R. Bourtembourg
ESRF, Grenoble, France
J. Forsberg
MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
T. Juerges
SKAO, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
J.J.D. Mol
ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
L. Pivetta, G. Scalamera
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
S. Rubio-Manrique
ALBA-CELLS, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

The Tango HDB++ project is a high performance event-driven archiving system which stores data with micro-second resolution timestamps. HDB++ supports many different backends, including MySQL/MariaDB, TimeScaleDB (a time-series PostgreSQL extension), and soon SQLite. Building on its flexible design, latest developments made supporting new backends even easier. HDB++ keeps improving with new features such as batch insertion and by becoming easier to install or setup in a testing environment, using ready to use docker images and striving to simplify all the steps of deployment. The HDB++ project is not only a data storage installation, but a full ecosystem to manage data, query it, and get the information needed. In this effort a lot of tools were developed to put a powerful backend to its proper use and be able to get the best out of the stored data. In this paper we will present as well the latest developments in data extraction, from low level libraries to web viewer integration such as grafana. Pointing out strategies in use in terms of data decimation, compression and others to help deliver data as fast as possible.

Slides THMBCMO01 [0.926 MB]

Poster THMBCMO01 [0.726 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THMBCMO01

About •

Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 24 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 08 December 2023 — Issued ※ 16 December 2023

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

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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