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@inproceedings{reszela:icalepcs2023-thpdp050,
author = {Z. Reszela and J. Aguilar Larruy and B. Bertrand and M. Caixal i Joaniquet and G. Cuní and J. Forsberg and R. Homs-Puron and E. Morales and M. Navarro and M.T. Núñez Pardo de Vera and C. Pascual-Izarra and M. Piekarski and J.A. Ramos and S. Rubio-Manrique and D. Schick and O. Vallcorba},
% author = {Z. Reszela and J. Aguilar Larruy and B. Bertrand and M. Caixal i Joaniquet and G. Cuní and J. Forsberg and others},
% author = {Z. Reszela and others},
title = {{Improving User Experience and Performance in Sardana and Taurus: A Status Report and Roadmap}},
% booktitle = {Proc. ICALEPCS'23},
booktitle = {Proc. 19th Int. Conf. Accel. Large Exp. Phys. Control Syst. (ICALEPCS'23)},
eventdate = {2023-10-09/2023-10-13},
pages = {1420--1425},
paper = {THPDP050},
language = {english},
keywords = {TANGO, controls, interface, software, SCADA},
venue = {Cape Town, South Africa},
series = {International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems},
number = {19},
publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland},
month = {02},
year = {2024},
issn = {2226-0358},
isbn = {978-3-95450-238-7},
doi = {10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP050},
url = {https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thpdp050.pdf},
abstract = {{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. }},
}