Author: Shroff, K.
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MO1BCO04 EIC Controls System Architecture Status and Plans 19
 
  • J.P. Jamilkowski, S.L. Clark, M.R. Costanzo, T. D’Ottavio, M. Harvey, K. Mernick, S. Nemesure, F. Severino, K. Shroff
    BNL, Upton, New York, USA
  • L.R. Dalesio
    Osprey DCS LLC, Ocean City, USA
  • K. Kulmatycski, C. Montag, V.H. Ranjbar, K.S. Smith
    Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Electron-Ion Collider, Upton, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Contract Number DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the auspices of the US Department of Energy
Preparations are underway to build the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) once Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) beam operations are end in 2025, providing an enhanced probe into the building blocks of nuclear physics for decades into the future. With commissioning of the new facility in mind, Accelerator Controls will require modernization in order to keep up with recent improvements in the field as well as to match the fundamental requirements of the accelerators that will be constructed. We will describe the status of the Controls System architecture that has been developed and prototyped for EIC, as well as plans for future work. Major influences on the requirements will be discussed, including EIC Common Platform applications as well as our expectation that we’ll need to support a hybrid environment covering both the proprietary RHIC Accelerator Device Object (ADO) environment as well as EPICS.
 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO1BCO04  
About • Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 08 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 14 November 2023 — Issued ※ 11 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.  
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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.
 
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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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