ICALEPCS2023 - List of Authors (Forrester, C.A.)

Paper	Title	Page
TUPDP109	Tickit: An Event-Based Multi-Device Simulation Framework	823
	A. Emery, T.M. Cobb, C.A. Forrester, G. O’Donnell DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
	Tickit is an event-based multi-device simulation framework providing configuration and orchestration of complex simulations. It was developed at Diamond Light Source in order to overcome limitations presented to us by some of our existing hardware simulations. With the Tickit framework, simulations can be addressed with a compositional approach. It allows devices to be simulated individually while still maintaining the interconnected behaviour exhibited by their hardware counterparts. This is achieved by modelling the interactions between devices, such as electronic signals. Devices can be collated into larger simulated systems providing a layer of simulated hardware against which to test the full stack of Data Acquisition and Controls tools. We aim to use this framework to extend the scope and improve the interoperability of our simulations; enabling us to further improve the testing of current systems and providing a preferential platform to assist in development of the new Acquisition and Controls tools.
	Poster TUPDP109 [0.703 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP109
About •	Received ※ 29 September 2023 — Revised ※ 21 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 04 December 2023 — Issued ※ 18 December 2023
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TH1BCO05	Diamond Light Source Athena Platform	1115
	J. Shannon, C.A. Forrester, K.A. Ralphs DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
	The Athena Platform aims to replace, upgrade and modernise the capabilities of Diamond Light Source’s acquisition and controls tools, providing an environment for better integration with information management and analysis functionality. It is a service-based experiment orchestration system built on top of NSLS-II’s Python based Bluesky/Ophyd data collection framework, providing a managed and extensible software deployment local to the beamline. By using industry standard infrastructure provision, security and interface technologies we hope to provide a sufficiently flexible and adaptable platform, to meet the wide spectrum of science use cases and beamline operation models in a reliable and maintainable way. In addition to a system design overview, we describe here some initial test deployments of core capabilities to a number of Diamond beamlines, as well as some of the technologies developed to support the overall delivery of the platform.
	Slides TH1BCO05 [1.409 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TH1BCO05
About •	Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 08 December 2023 — Issued ※ 16 December 2023
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Tickit: An Event-Based Multi-Device Simulation Framework

823

A. Emery, T.M. Cobb, C.A. Forrester, G. O’Donnell
DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Tickit is an event-based multi-device simulation framework providing configuration and orchestration of complex simulations. It was developed at Diamond Light Source in order to overcome limitations presented to us by some of our existing hardware simulations. With the Tickit framework, simulations can be addressed with a compositional approach. It allows devices to be simulated individually while still maintaining the interconnected behaviour exhibited by their hardware counterparts. This is achieved by modelling the interactions between devices, such as electronic signals. Devices can be collated into larger simulated systems providing a layer of simulated hardware against which to test the full stack of Data Acquisition and Controls tools. We aim to use this framework to extend the scope and improve the interoperability of our simulations; enabling us to further improve the testing of current systems and providing a preferential platform to assist in development of the new Acquisition and Controls tools.

Poster TUPDP109 [0.703 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP109

About •

Received ※ 29 September 2023 — Revised ※ 21 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 04 December 2023 — Issued ※ 18 December 2023

Cite •

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

TH1BCO05

Diamond Light Source Athena Platform

1115

J. Shannon, C.A. Forrester, K.A. Ralphs
DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

The Athena Platform aims to replace, upgrade and modernise the capabilities of Diamond Light Source’s acquisition and controls tools, providing an environment for better integration with information management and analysis functionality. It is a service-based experiment orchestration system built on top of NSLS-II’s Python based Bluesky/Ophyd data collection framework, providing a managed and extensible software deployment local to the beamline. By using industry standard infrastructure provision, security and interface technologies we hope to provide a sufficiently flexible and adaptable platform, to meet the wide spectrum of science use cases and beamline operation models in a reliable and maintainable way. In addition to a system design overview, we describe here some initial test deployments of core capabilities to a number of Diamond beamlines, as well as some of the technologies developed to support the overall delivery of the platform.

Slides TH1BCO05 [1.409 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TH1BCO05

About •

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

Cite •

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