S2Innovation, Kraków, Poland
ESRF, Grenoble, France
MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Tango Controls is successfully applied at more than 40 scientific institutions and industrial projects. These institutions do not only use the software but also actively participates to its development. The Tango Community raised several projects and activities to support collaboration as well as to make Tango Controls being easier to start with. Some of the projects are led by S2Innovation. These projects are: gathering and unifying of Tango Controls documentation, providing a device classes catalogue and preparation of a so-called TangoBox virtual machine. Status of the projects will be presented as well as their impact on the Tango Controls collaboration.
S2Innovation, Kraków, Poland
ESRF, Grenoble, France
MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
More than 40 laboratories use Tango Controls as a framework for their control systems. During its 18 years of existence, Tango Controls has evolved and matured. The latest 9.3.3 release is regarded as the most stable and feature-reach version of the framework. However, it makes use of already outdated CORBA technology which impacts all the stack, from the low-level transport protocol up to the client API and tools. The Tango Community decided to move forward and is preparing for so-called Tango Controls v10. Tango v10 is meant to be more a new implementation of the framework than a release of new features. The new implementation shall make the code easier to maintain and extend as well as remove legacy technologies. At the same time, it shall keep the Tango Controls objective philosophy and allows the new implementation to coexist with the old one at the same laboratory. The first step in the process is to provide a formal specification of current concepts and protocol. This specification will be base for the development and verification of new source code. Formal specification of Tango Controls and its purpose will be presented along with used tools and methodologies.
S2Innovation, Kraków, Poland
Tango Controls is a client-server framework used to build distributed control systems. It is applied at small installations with few clients and servers as well as at large laboratories running hundreds of servers talking to thousands of devices with hundreds of concurrent client applications. A Tango Controls benchmarking suite has been developed. It allows testing of several features of Tango Controls for efficiency. The tool can be used to check the impact of new developments in the framework as well as the impact of specific network-server and deployment architecture implemented at a facility. The tool will be presented along with some benchmark results.
ESRF, Grenoble, France
SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
SKA Organisation, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
NEXEYA Systems, La Couronne, France
S2Innovation, Kraków, Poland
MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa
IK, Moscow, Russia
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy