ICALEPCS2015 - List of Keywords (TANGO)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
MOA3O01	SKA Telescope Manager Project Status Report	controls, interface, software, monitoring	1
	L.R. Brederode SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa A. Marassi INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy S. Riggi INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy
	Funding: SKA South Africa National Research Foundation of South Africa Department of Science and Technology 3rd Floor, The Park, Park Road Pinelands Cape Town South Africa 7405. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world's largest radio telescope once it is complete and will use hundreds of thousands of receivers, spanning Africa and Australia to survey the sky in unprecedented detail. The SKA will be ground breaking in many respects such as image resolution, sensitivity, survey speed, data processing and size to name a few. The SKA Telescope Manager Consortium is currently designing the SKA Phase 1 (SKA1) Telescope Manager Element that will orchestrate the SKA Observatory and associated telescopes. In this paper, we report on the current status of the SKA1 Telescope Manager pre-construction project, the development process and its high-level architecture.
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MOB3O03	MAX IV Laboratory, Milestones and Lessons Learned	controls, software, GUI, hardware	9
	V.H. Hardion, Y. Cerenius, F. H. Hennies, K. Larsson, J. Lidón-Simon, M. Sjöström, D.P. Spruce MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
	The MAX IV Laboratory is a new scientific research facility based on synchrotron light being built at Lund University, southern Sweden. The accelerator consists of one full energy linear accelerator providing two storage rings at 1.5 GeV & 3 GeV and a Short Pulse Facility. Additionally more than 13 beamlines are planned to be built among which should be operational for the first users in 2016. The current status and approach of the control system is presented from its technical and organisational point of view, including the stakeholders, as well as the lessons learned from the commissioning as part of our continuous improvement for the future.
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MOD3O06	Interface Management for SKA Telescope Manager	interface, controls, operation, monitoring	68
	P.S. Swart, G.M. le Roux SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa A. Marassi, R. Smareglia INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy S. Roy Chaudhuri Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune, India S. Vrcic NRC-Herzberg, Penticton, BC, Canada
	The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is currently in the Pre-construction Phase. During this phase, the telescope subsystems are being designed. The Telescope Manager (TM) is a supervisory control and monitoring subsystem in each of the two radio telescopes of the SKA (SKA1-Low and SKA1-Mid). The TM interfaces with a number of diverse telescope subsystems. Interaction between TM and these subsystems is a major source of requirements for the TM. Careful management of TM external interfaces is therefore important. This discussion is a case study of TM interface management. Firstly, how system architectural design aspects like separation of concerns in the control hierarchy reduce telescope complexity with regards to interfaces is discussed. Secondly, the standardisation approach for monitoring and control interfaces to facilitate early elicitation of interface requirements for the TM, and to manage the diversity of interfacing subsystems is discussed. Thirdly, the relations between interface definition and requirements analysis activities, using SysML representations as an example is discussed.
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MOPGF047	Revolution Project: Progress in the Evolution of Soleil Motion Control Model	controls, software, hardware, embedded	201
	S.Z. Zhang, Y.-M. Abiven, F. Blache, D. Corruble, C.K. Kheffafa SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France S.M. Minolli NEXEYA SYSTEMS, LA COURONNE, France
	Funding: Work supported by XT.Tran, M.Cerato, G.Renaud, E.Fonda and SAMBA Beamline staff, Delta Tau Ldt., IMO JEAMBRUN AUTOMATION, Observatory-Sciences Ldt. SOLEIL is a third generation synchrotron radiation source located near Paris in France. REVOLUTION (REconsider Various contrOLler for yoUr motion) is the motion controller upgrade project currently in progress at SOLEIL. It was initiated to maintain the facility operations by addressing the risk of hardware obsolescence in motion control but at the same time making room for complex applications requirements to face new high performance challenges. In order to achieve these considerations, SOLEIL's strategy move was to go from a single controller for all applications to two motion controllers. A first Controller GALIL DMC-4183 was chosen to succeed the previous version DMC-2182. Both controllers can be integrated in the existing architecture with little hardware and software adaptation enabling full compatibility with the existing architecture. A second controller, Delta Tau Power Brick, has been selected as a HIGH PERFORMANCE solution providing advanced functionality. The CLASSIC controller upgrade is about to be completed and the integration of Power Brick into the SOLEIL control system is ongoing. The system complexity is abstracted by embedding processing functions into low-level code and giving end-users a simple high-level interface. The work done to structure the interfacing and standardization of the controller are detailed in this paper.
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MOPGF049	100Hz Data Acquisition in the TANGO Control System at the Max IV Linac	linac, controls, hardware, electron	209
	P.J. Bell, V.H. Hardion, V. Michel MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
	The MAX IV synchrotron radiation facility is currently being constructed in Lund, Sweden. A linear accelerator serves as the injector for the two storage rings and also as the source of short X ray pulses, in which mode it will operate with a 100Hz repetition rate. The controls system, based on TANGO, is required to collect and archive data from several different types of hardware at up to this 100Hz frequency. These data are used for example in offline beam diagnostics, for which they must be associated to a unique electron bunch number. To meet these requirements, the timing performance of the hardware components have been studied, and a TANGO Fast Archiver device created. The system is currently in the deployment phase and will play an important role in allowing the linac and Short Pulse Facility reach their 100Hz design goal
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MOPGF050	Tango-Kepler Integration at ELI-ALPS	controls, device-server, database, framework	212
	P. Ács, S. Brockhauser, L.J. Fülöp, V. Hanyecz, M. Kiss, Cs. Koncz, L. Schrettner ELI-ALPS, Szeged, Hungary
	Funding: The ELI-ALPS project (GOP-1.1.1-12/B-2012-000, GINOP-2.3.6-15-2015-00001) is supported by the European Union and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. ELI-ALPS will provide a wide range of attosecond pulses which will be used for performing experiments by international research groups. ELI-ALPS will use the TANGO Controls framework to build up the central control system and to integrate the autonomous subsystems regarding software monitoring and control. Beside a robust central and integrated control system a flexible and dynamic high level environment could be beneficial. The envisioned users will come from diverse fields including chemistry, biology, physics or medicine. Most of the users will not have programming or scripting background. Meanwhile workflow system provides visual programming facilities where the logics can be drawn, which is understandable by the potential users. We have integrated TANGO into the Kepler workflow system because it gives a lot of actors for all natural scientific fields. Moreover it has the potential for running the workflows on HPC or GRID resources. We demonstrated the usability of the development with a beamline simulation. The TANGO-Kepler integration provides an easy-to-use environment for the users therefore it can facilitate e.g. the standardization of measurements protocols as well.
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MOPGF051	ELI-ALPS Control System Status Report	controls, software, laser, beam-transport	216
	L.J. Fülöp, S. Brockhauser, S. Farkas, V. Hanyecz, M. Kiss, M.T. Koncz, Á. Mohácsi, K. Nelissen, L. Schrettner, B. Szalai, P. Szász, C. Turner ELI-ALPS, Szeged, Hungary
	Funding: The ELI-ALPS project (GOP-1.1.1-12/B-2012-000, GINOP-2.3.6-15-2015-00001) is supported by the European Union and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. ELI-ALPS will provide a wide range of attosecond pulses which will be used for performing chemical, biological, physical or medical experiments by international research groups. It is one pillar of the first international laser facility for the scientific user communities. ELI-ALPS uses the TANGO Controls framework to build up the central control system and to integrate the autonomous subsystems regarding monitoring and control. It will be also used for the implementation of some autonomous systems' control system while others will be implemented differently. The central control system and the integration strategy of the autonomous systems is designed. The centralization and integration needs are surveyed and the requirements are collected. Prototypes have been developed to clarify the requirements and to test the designs. Requirements elicitation, designing and prototype development follows a Lean-Agile approach and includes several fields: device drivers and simulators; integration logic; central supervision, archiving, logging and error recovery; graphical user interfaces and so on.
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MOPGF058	Neutron Scattering Instrument Control System Modernization - Front-End Hardware and Software Adaption Problems	device-server, controls, detector, software	233
	M. Drochner, L. Fleischhauer-Fuss, H. Kleines, M. Wagener, S. van Waasen FZJ, Jülich, Germany
	When the FRM-2 neutron source went into operation (2002) and many instruments were moved from the closed-down Jülich reactor to the new facility, it was agreed on a choice of front-end hardware and the TACO middleware from ESRF. To keep up with software standards, it was decided recently to switch to TACO's successor - the TANGO control software. For a unified "user experience", new graphical user interface software "NICOS-2" is being developed by the software group at FRM2. While general semantics of TACO and TANGO don't look very different at a first glance, and adaption of device servers seemed to be straightforward at first, various problems in practical operation were found. The problems were due to differences in state handling, timing behavior and error reporting. These problems, and the changes that had to be made to ensure reliable operation again, will be described.
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MOPGF063	The New TANGO-based Control and Data Acquisition of the Neutron Instrument DNS at FRM II	controls, neutron, software, PLC	236
	H. Kleines, M. Bednarek, K. Bussmann, M. Drochner, L. Fleischhauer-Fuss, S. Janaschke, S. Keuler, K.-H. Mertens, S. Su, F. Suxdorf, S. van Waasen FZJ, Jülich, Germany
	Forschungszentrum Jülich has been operating the neutron Instrument DNS at the neutron source FRM II for about 10 years. DNS is a time of flight neutron spectrometer with polarization analysis that experienced a major upgrade in 2014 and 2015. During the upgrade DNS was equipped with new electronics and a new control and data acquisition system, including a transition from the existing TACO system to its successor TANGO. On the client side the NICOS software developed at FRM II is used for the implementation of measurement operations and user interface. The design of the new control and data acquisition system is presented and the lessons learned by the introduction of TANGO are reported.
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MOPGF065	Motion Control on the Max IV Soft X-Ray Beamlines With Tango and Sardana	controls, GUI, synchrotron, software	240
	M. Lindberg, J. Forsberg, L. Kjellsson, A.M. Milan, C. Såthe, P. Sjöblom, S. Urpelainen MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
	MAX IV Laboratory, a synchrotron facility in Lund, has selected TANGO as the control system framework for the entire facility. On the beamlines that are being built the Python-based SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system Sardana will be used for experimental control. SPECIES, one out of eight new soft X-ray beamlines, is used as a test bench for evaluating the chosen standards. Sardana is used to control the energy setting of the PGM (plane grating monochromator) as well as to provide macros and other utilities for the user. Generic Taurus GUIs and a SVG-synoptic give the user a way to interact with the control system and display relevant information. The standardized graphical interfaces give a familiar look and feel across the entire facility. All motorized axes are controlled with the IcePAP motion controller. For the axes of the PGM, the IcePAP driver operates in hardware closed loop. Special care is taken in order to avoid slow and inaccurate movements of the PGM energy due to the non-linear relationship between the motors and the angular encoders.
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MOPGF111	TANGO Integration of a Specific Hardware through HTTP-server	controls, power-supply, software, Windows	334
	A. Panov, A.A. Korepanov BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
	MAX IV and Solaris are new synchrotrons third generation. MAX IV synchrotron consist of 1.5 GeV storage ring, 3.0 GeV storage ring and linac; it is located in Lund, Sweden. Solaris synchrotron is a replica of the 1.5 GeV storage ring of the MAX IV project; it is located in Kraków, Poland. Structure of storage rings contains several pulse magnets (kicker and pinger). Control system of pulse power supplies based on LTR crate with several modules (ADC, DAC, input/output registers etc.). LTR crate is product Russian firm L-CARD. LTR crate is crate with integrated controller (ADSP Blackfin BF537) and PLC EP1C30 with direct connection to modules. In order to communicate with crate native LTR-server is used. LTR-server is a Windows application based on use of sockets. Control system of MAX IV and Solaris uses TANGO. For integration LTR-crates in final structure, special software gateway (csMAXIVltr) is used. This gateway is a set of several specific Windows applications implemented by using Qt5 libraries. Gateway allow communicating TANGO- server with crate through built-in HTTP-server. In final structure of control system csMAXIVltr will be work on a Windows virtual machine.
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MOPGF113	Controls and Interlocks for the New Elettra Super Conducting Wiggler	controls, vacuum, wiggler, storage-ring	342
	L. Pivetta, F. Giacuzzo, G. Scalamera, D. Vittor Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
	During the last two years, triggered by the construction of the XRD2 beamline, and to comply with the top-up operations, a complete refurbishment of the Elettra Super Conducting Wiggler (SCW) has been carried out. Alongside with the mechanical, cryogenic and electrical components, also the electronics, the control and interlock systems have been upgraded. The MVME5110 PowerPC single board computer, which is a standard in the Elettra control system, has been adopted, as well as RS232 communication modules, analog to digital converters and digital I/O lines. In order to cope with the high output power of the SCW, up to18 KW, the interlock system, protecting both the wiggler and the beamline front-end, has been completely redesigned. The control system software has been re-written from scratch using the TANGO software framework. The complete system has been tested during the second half of 2014 and is now fully operational.
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MOPGF140	Integration of PLC's in Tango Control Systems Using PyPLC	controls, PLC, GUI, database	413
	S. Rubio-Manrique, M. Broseta, G. Cuní, D. Fernández-Carreiras, A. Rubio, J. Villanueva ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	The Equipment Protection Systems and Personnel Safety Systems of the ALBA Synchrotron are complex and highly distributed control systems based on PLC's from different vendors. EPS and PSS not only regulate the interlocks of the whole ALBA facility but provide an extense network of analog and digital sensors that collect information from all subsystems; as well as its logical states. TANGO is the Control System framework used at ALBA, providing several tools and services (GUI's, Archiving, Alarms) in which EPS and PSS systems must be integrated. PyPLC, a dynamic Tango device, have been developed in python to provide a flexible interface and enable PLC developers to automatically update it. This paper describes how protection systems and the PLC code generation cycle have been fully integrated within TANGO Control System at ALBA.
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MOPGF149	Nuclotron and NICA Control System Development Status	controls, database, network, monitoring	437
	E.V. Gorbachev, V. Andreev, A. Kirichenko, D.V. Monakhov, S. Romanov, T.V. Rukoyatkina JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia G.S. Sedykh, V. Volkov JINR/VBLHEP, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
	The Nuclotron is a 6 GeV/n superconducting proton synchrotron operating at JINR, Dubna since 1993. It will be the core of the future accelerating complex NICA which is under construction now. NICA will provide collider experiments with heavy ions at nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energies of 4-11 GeV. The TANGO based control system of the accelerating complex is under development now. This paper describes its structure, main features and present status.
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MOPGF163	Status of the Local Monitor and Control System of SKA Dishes	controls, monitoring, interface, software	472
	S. Riggi, U. Becciani, A. Costa, A. Ingallinera, F. Schillirò, C. Trigilio INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy V. Baldini, R. Cirami, A. Marassi INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy G. Nicotra, C. Nocita INAF IRA, Bologna, Italy
	The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project aims at building the world's largest radio observatory to observe the radio sky with unprecedented sensitivity and collecting area. In the SKA1 phase of the project, two dish arrays are to be built, one in South Africa (SKA1-Mid) and the other in Western Australia (SKA1-Survey). Each antenna will be provided with a local monitor and control system, enabling remote operations to engineers and to the Telescope Manager system. In this paper we present the current status of the software system being designed to monitor and control the dish subsystem. An overview of the dish instrumentation is reported, along with details concerning the software architecture, functional interfaces, prototyping and the evaluated technologies.
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MOPGF172	Bringing Quality in the Controls Software Delivery Process	software, controls, Windows, Linux	485
	Z. Reszela, G. Cuní, C.M. Falcón Torres, D. Fernández-Carreiras, G. Jover-Mañas, C. Pascual-Izarra, R. Pastor Ortiz, M. Rosanes Siscart, S. Rubio-Manrique ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	The Alba Controls Group develops and operates a diverse variety of controls software which is shared within international communities of users and developers. This includes: generic frameworks like Sardana* and Taurus, numerous Tango* device servers and applications where, among others, we can find PyAlarm and Panic***, and specific experiment procedures and hardware controllers. A study has commenced on how to improve the delivery process of our software from the hands of developers to laboratories, by making this process more reliable, predictable and risk-controlled. Automated unit and acceptance tests combined with the continuous integration, have been introduced, providing valuable and fast feedback to the developers. In order to renew and automate our legacy packaging and deployment system we have evaluated modern alternatives. The above practices were brought together into a design of the continuous delivery pipelines which were validated on a set of diverse software. This paper presents this study, its results and a proposal of the cost-effective implementation. http://taurus-scada.org http://sardana-controls.org http://tango-controls.org ***S. Rubio-Manrique, 'PANIC a Suite for Visualization, Logging and Notification of Incidents', Proc. of PCaPAC2014.
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MOPGF179	Status of the Solaris Control System - Collaborations and Technology	controls, software, operation, GUI	510
	P.P. Goryl, C.J. Bocchetta, P. Bulira, A.I. Wawrzyniak, K. Wawrzyniak, L. Żytniak Solaris, Kraków, Poland V.H. Hardion, J.J. Jamróz, J. Lidón-Simon, M. Lindberg, A.G. Persson, D.P. Spruce MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden M.J. Stankiewicz Solaris National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland T. Szymocha Cyfronet, Kraków, Poland
	Funding: Work supported by the European Regional Development Fund within the frame of the Innovative Economy Operational Program: POIG.02.01.00-12-213/09. The Solaris is a synchrotron light source starting just now in Kraków, Poland. It is built with strong collaboration with other European accelerator facilities. The MAX-IV project in Lund, Sweden and Tango Community are the most important partners in the project. Solaris has built a twin copy of MAX-IV 1.5GeV ring and linear accelerator based on the same components as the ones of MAX-IV. Thus, both facilities share know-how and apply similar technologies for the control system, among them the Tango CS is used for software layer. Status of the control system in Kraków as well as collaborations and technological choices impact on its success will be presented.
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TUD3I01	The LMJ Target Diagnostics Control System Architecture	diagnostics, controls, target, software	565
	S. Perez, T. Caillaud CEA, Arpajon, France
	The French Laser Megajoule (LMJ) is, behind the US NIF, the second largest inertial fusion facility in the World. The main activity of this facility is the acquisition of several physical phenomena as neutron, gamma, X rays…produced by the indirect attack of hundreds of high power laser beams on targets through measurement devices called "target diagnostics". More than 30 diagnostics will be installed and driven in a huge and complex integrated computer control system. The aim of this paper is to describe an architecture based on the Tango open source software for the very low level control system, Python language for the development of drivers and the French commercial PANORAMA software as the main high level SCADA. This choice leads to guaranty the evolution of the middleware software architecture of this facility supposed to be operated during dozen of years with the capability of using many instruments including sustainability.
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WEA3O01	The TANGO Controls Collaboration in 2015	controls, device-server, laser, experiment	585
	A. Götz, J.M. Chaize, T.M. Coutinho, J.L. Pons, E.T. Taurel, P.V. Verdier ESRF, Grenoble, France G. Abeillé SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France S. Brockhauser, L.J. Fülöp ELI-ALPS, Szeged, Hungary M.O. Cernaianu IFIN-HH, Bucharest - Magurele, Romania I.A. Khokhriakov HZG, Geesthacht, Germany R. Smareglia INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy A. Vázquez-Otero ELI-BEAMS, Prague, Czech Republic
	This paper presents the latest news from the TANGO collaboration. TANGO is being used in new domains. The three ELI pillars - ELI-Beamlines, ELI-ALPS and ELI-NP in Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania respectively have selected TANGO for many of their control systems. In ELI-Beamlines and ELI-Alps, TANGO will play the role of integrating all the hardware and turn-key systems (some delivered with EPICS or Labview) into one integrated system. In ELI-NP, the HPLS and LBTS will be controlled using TANGO, while the GBS will be controlled using EPICS. On the experimental side, ELI-NP will use both TANGO and EPICS control systems. TANGO will be extended with new features required by the laser community. These features will include nanosecond time-stamping. The latest major release of TANGO V9 includes the following features - data pipes, enumerated types, dynamic commands and forwarded attributes. The collaboration has been extended to include the new members and to provide a sustainable source of resources through collaboration contracts. A new website (http://www.tango-controls.org/) has been designed which improves the communication within the community.
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WEA3O03	Towards Building Reusability in Control Systems - a Journey	controls, DSL, framework, target	593
	P. Patwari, A.S. Banerjee, G. Muralikrishna, S. Roy Chaudhuri Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune, India
	Development of similar systems leads to a strong motivation for reuse. Our involvement with three large experimental physics facilities led us to appreciate this better in the context of development of their respective monitoring and control (M&C) software. We realized that the approach to allowing reuse follows the onion skin model that is, building re-usability in each layer in the solution to the problem. The same motivation led us to create a generic M&C architecture through our first collaborative effort which resulted into a fairly formal M&C domain model. The second collaboration showed us the need to have a common vocabulary that could be used across multiple systems to specify respective domain specific M&C solutions at higher levels of abstraction implemented using the generic underlying M&C engine. This resulted in our definition and creation of a domain specific language for M&C. The third collaboration leads us to imagine capturing domain knowledge using the common vocabulary which will substantially further reuse, this thought is already demonstrated through a preliminary prototype. We discuss our learning through this journey in this paper.
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WED3O04	HDB++: A New Archiving System for TANGO	database, device-server, GUI, interface	652
	L. Pivetta, C. Scafuri, G. Scalamera, G. Strangolino, L. Zambon Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy R. Bourtembourg, J.L. Pons, P.V. Verdier ESRF, Grenoble, France
	The TANGO release 8 led to several enhancements, including the adoption of the ZeroMQ library for faster and lightweight event-driven communication. Exploiting these improved capabilities, a high performance, event-driven archiving system written in C++ has been developed. It inherits the database structure from the existing TANGO Historical Data Base (HDB) and introduces new storage architecture possibilities, better internal diagnostic capabilities and an optimized API. Its design allows storing data into traditional database management systems such as MySQL or into NoSQL database such as Apache Cassandra. This paper describes the software design of the new HDB++ archiving system, the current state of the implementation and gives some performance figures and use cases.
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WEM309	A Graphical Tool for Viewing and Interacting with a Control System	controls, software, vacuum, interface	681
	J. Forsberg, V.H. Hardion, D.P. Spruce MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
	This paper presents a graphical interface for displaying status information and enabling user interaction with the Tango based control system for the MAX IV synchrotron. It focuses on bringing an intuitive view of the whole system, so that operators can quickly access the controls for any hardware based on its physical location. The view is structured into different layers that can be selectively shown, and various live updated information can be displayed in the form of e.g. colour or text. Panning and zooming is supported, as well as invoking commands. The interface is defined by an SVG drawing which can be edited without programming expertise. Since our system is based on modern web technologies, it can be run as a web service accessible by standard browsers, but it can also be integrated in GUI applications.
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WEM310	How Cassandra Improves Performances and Availability of HDB++ Tango Archiving System	database, device-server, GUI, controls	685
	R. Bourtembourg, J.L. Pons, P.V. Verdier ESRF, Grenoble, France
	The TANGO release 8 led to several enhancements, including the adoption of the ZeroMQ library for faster and lightweight event-driven communication. Exploiting these improved capabilities, a high performance, event-driven archiving system, named Tango HDB++, has been developed. Its design gives the possibility to store archiving data into Apache Cassandra: a high performance scalable NoSQL distributed database, providing High Availability service and replication, with no single point of failure. HDB++ with Cassandra will open up new perspectives for TANGO in the era of big data and will be the starting point of new big data analytics/data mining applications, breaking the limits of the archiving systems which are based on traditional relational databases. This paper describes the current state of the implementation and our experience with Apache Cassandra in the scope of the Tango HDB++ project. It also gives some performance figures and use cases where using Cassandra with Tango HDB++ is a good fit. HDB++ project is the result of a collaboration between the Elettra synchrotron (Trieste) and the European Radiation Synchrotron Facility (Grenoble)
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WEPGF049	The Unified Anka Archiving System - a Powerful Wrapper to Scada Systems like Tango and WinCC OA	database, controls, interface, synchrotron	810
	D. Haas, S.A. Chilingaryan, A. Kopmann, W. Mexner, D. Ressmann KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
	ANKA realized a new unified archiving system for the typical synchrotron control systems by integrating their logging databases into the "Advanced Data Extraction Infrastructure" (ADEI). ANKA's control system environment is heterogeneous: some devices are integrated into the Tango archiving system, other sensors are logged by the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system WinCC OA. For both systems modules exist to configure the pool of sensors to be archived in the individual control system databases. ADEI has been developed to provide a unified data access layer for large time-series data sets. It supports internal data processing, caching, data aggregation and fast visualization in the web. Intelligent caching strategies ensure fast access even to huge data sets stored in the attached data sources like SQL databases. With its data abstraction layer the new ANKA archiving system is the foundation for automated monitoring while keeping the freedom to integrate nearly any control system flavor. The ANKA archiving system has been introduced successfully at three beamlines. It is operating stable since about one year and it is intended to extend it to the whole facility.
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WEPGF056	Flyscan: a Fast and Multi-technique Data Acquisition Platform for the SOLEIL Beamlines	synchrotron, hardware, timing, network	826
	N. Leclercq, J. Bisou, F. Blache, F. Langlois, S. Lê, K. Medjoubi, C. Mocuta, S. Poirier SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
	SOLEIL is continuously optimizing its 29 beamlines in order to provide its users with state of the art synchrotron radiation based experimental techniques. Among the topics addressed by the related transversal projects, the enhancement of the computing tools is identified as a high priority task. In this area, the aim is to optimize the beam time usage providing the users with a fast, simultaneous and multi-technique scanning platform. The concrete implementation of this general concept allows the users to acquire more data in the same amount of beam time. The present paper provides the reader with an overview of so call 'Flyscan' project currently under deployment at SOLEIL. It notably details a solution in which an unbounded number of distributed actuators and sensors share a common trigger clock and deliver their data into temporary files. The latter are immediately merged into common file(s) in order to make the whole experiment data available for on-line processing and visualization. Some application examples are also commented in order to illustrate the advantages of the Flyscan approach.
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WEPGF097	Local Monitoring and Control System for the SKA Telescope Manager: A Knowledge-Based System Approach for Issues Identification Within a Logging Service	software, controls, database, interface	930
	M. Di Carlo, M. Dolci INAF - OA Teramo, Teramo, Italy R. Smareglia INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy P.S. Swart, G.M. le Roux SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
	The SKA Telescope Manager (SKA. TM) is a distributed software application aimed to control the operation of thousands of radio telescopes, antennas and auxiliary systems (e.g. infrastructures, signal processors, …) which will compose the Square Kilometre Array, the world's largest radio astronomy facility currently under development. SKA. TM, as an "element" of the SKA, is composed in turn by a set of sub-elements whose tight coordination is ensured by a specific sub-element called "Local Monitoring and Control" (TM.LMC). TM.LMC is mainly focussed on the life cycle management of TM, the acquisition of every network-related information useful to understand how TM is performing and the logging library for both online and offline sub-elements. Given the high complexity of the system, identifying the origin of an issue, as soon as a problem occurs, appears to be a hard task. To allow a prompt diagnostics analysis by engineers, operators and software developers, a Knowledge-Based System (KBS) approach is proposed and described for the logging service.
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WEPGF120	Timing System at MAX IV - Status and Development	linac, timing, storage-ring, controls	984
	J.J. Jamróz, J. Forsberg, V.H. Hardion, V. Martos, D.P. Spruce MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
	Funding: MAX IV Laboratory A MAX IV construction of two storage rings (SR1.5GeV and SR3GeV) and a short pulse facility (SPF) has been proceeding over last years and will be finished in the middle of 2016. In 2014, few timing procurements were successfully finalized according to the MAX IV requirements and the installation works are ongoing along with the TANGO control system integration. THPPC103
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WEPGF145	A Structured Approach to Control System GUI Design for the Solaris Light Source	software, controls, operation, GUI	1044
	V. Juvan, I. Dolin'ek, T. Humar, M. Pavleski Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia P.P. Goryl Solaris, Kraków, Poland
	In the framework of delivering control system services to the Solaris synchrotron light source, Kraków, Poland, Cosylab realized a comprehensive set of controls GUIs, using a structured approach. The goals of using this architecture are threefold. The first is to achieve reliable, predictable and consistent behaviour of the controls software. The second is that it is easy to deploy and maintain through scripting. The third is that it is future-proof by providing extensibility, using dedicated templates. The system is based on a configuration database, populated with devices, device specifics and device groups (clusters of devices performing specific operations). The GUIs are dynamically generated from this configuration. For the synoptic views, TANGO-standard JDraw and its configuration are integrated into the framework. Existing GUIs, written in PyTango can be easily adapted to function as part of this system. The compelling user benefits are high usability and life-time management through controlled upgrade and extension. For new big physics projects this GUI control program offers a customizable solution for any TANGO based control system.
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WEPGF148	Unifying All TANGO Control Services in a Customizable Graphical User Interface	controls, GUI, framework, interface	1052
	S. Rubio-Manrique, G. Cuní, D. Fernández-Carreiras, C. Pascual-Izarra, D. Roldán ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain E. Al-Dmour MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
	TANGO is a distributed Control System with an active community of developers. The community features multiple services like Archiving or Alarms with an heterogeneous mix of technologies and look-and-feels that must be integrated in the final user workflow. The Viewer and Commander Control Application (VACCA) was developed on top of Taurus to provide TANGO with the user experience of a commercial SCADA, keeping the advantages of open source. The Taurus GUI application enables scientists to design their own live applications using drag-and-drop from the widget catalog. The VACCA User Interface provides a template mechanism for synoptic-driven applications and extends the widget catalog to interact with all the components of the control system (Alarms, Archiving, Databases, Hosts Administration). The elements of VACCA are described in this paper, as well as its mechanisms to encapsulate all services in a GUI for an specific subsystem (e.g. Vacuum).
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WEPGF152	Time Travel Made Possible at FERMI by the Time-Machine Application	database, interface, controls, framework	1059
	G. Strangolino, M. Lonza, L. Pivetta Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
	The TANGO archiving system HDB++ continuously stores data over time into the historical database. The new time-machine application, a specialization of the extensively used save/restore framework, allows bringing back sets of control system variables to their values at a precise date and time in the past. Given the desired time stamp t0 and a set of TANGO attributes, the values recorded at the most recent date and time preceding or equaling t0 are fetched from the historical database. The user can examine the list of variables with their values before performing a full or partial restoration of the set. The time-machine seamlessly integrates with the well known save/restore application, sharing many of its characteristics and functionalities, such as the matrix-based subset selection, the live difference view and the simple and effective user interface.
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THHC3O03	Effortless Creation of Control & Data Acquisition Graphical User Interfaces with Taurus	controls, GUI, EPICS, interface	1138
	C. Pascual-Izarra, G. Cuní, C.M. Falcón Torres, D. Fernández-Carreiras, Z. Reszela, M. Rosanes Siscart ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain T.M. Coutinho ESRF, Grenoble, France
	Creating and supporting Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for experiment control and data acquisition has traditionally been a major drain of time and resources for laboratories. GUIs often need to be adapted to new equipment or methods, but typical users lack the technical skills to perform the required modifications, let alone to create new GUIs. Here we present the Taurus* framework which allows a non-programmer to create a fully-featured GUI (with forms, plots, synoptics, etc) from scratch in a few minutes using a "wizard" as well as to customize and expand it by drag-and-dropping elements around at execution time. Moreover, Taurus also gives full control to more advanced users to access, create and customize a GUI programmatically using Python. Taurus is a free, open source, multi-platform pure Python module (it uses PyQt for the GUI). Its support and development are driven by an active and welcoming community participated by several major laboratories and companies which use it for their developments. While Taurus was originally designed within the Sardana suite for the Tango* control system, now it can also support other control systems (even simultaneously) via plug-ins. * Taurus Home Page: http://taurus-scada.org Sardana Home Page: http://sardana-controls.org* Tango Home Page: http://tango-controls.org
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MOA3O01

SKA Telescope Manager Project Status Report

controls, interface, software, monitoring

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L.R. Brederode
SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
A. Marassi
INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
S. Riggi
INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy

Funding: SKA South Africa National Research Foundation of South Africa Department of Science and Technology 3rd Floor, The Park, Park Road Pinelands Cape Town South Africa 7405.
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world's largest radio telescope once it is complete and will use hundreds of thousands of receivers, spanning Africa and Australia to survey the sky in unprecedented detail. The SKA will be ground breaking in many respects such as image resolution, sensitivity, survey speed, data processing and size to name a few. The SKA Telescope Manager Consortium is currently designing the SKA Phase 1 (SKA1) Telescope Manager Element that will orchestrate the SKA Observatory and associated telescopes. In this paper, we report on the current status of the SKA1 Telescope Manager pre-construction project, the development process and its high-level architecture.

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MOB3O03

MAX IV Laboratory, Milestones and Lessons Learned

controls, software, GUI, hardware

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V.H. Hardion, Y. Cerenius, F. H. Hennies, K. Larsson, J. Lidón-Simon, M. Sjöström, D.P. Spruce
MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden

The MAX IV Laboratory is a new scientific research facility based on synchrotron light being built at Lund University, southern Sweden. The accelerator consists of one full energy linear accelerator providing two storage rings at 1.5 GeV & 3 GeV and a Short Pulse Facility. Additionally more than 13 beamlines are planned to be built among which should be operational for the first users in 2016. The current status and approach of the control system is presented from its technical and organisational point of view, including the stakeholders, as well as the lessons learned from the commissioning as part of our continuous improvement for the future.

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MOD3O06

Interface Management for SKA Telescope Manager

interface, controls, operation, monitoring

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P.S. Swart, G.M. le Roux
SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
A. Marassi, R. Smareglia
INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
S. Roy Chaudhuri
Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune, India
S. Vrcic
NRC-Herzberg, Penticton, BC, Canada

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is currently in the Pre-construction Phase. During this phase, the telescope subsystems are being designed. The Telescope Manager (TM) is a supervisory control and monitoring subsystem in each of the two radio telescopes of the SKA (SKA1-Low and SKA1-Mid). The TM interfaces with a number of diverse telescope subsystems. Interaction between TM and these subsystems is a major source of requirements for the TM. Careful management of TM external interfaces is therefore important. This discussion is a case study of TM interface management. Firstly, how system architectural design aspects like separation of concerns in the control hierarchy reduce telescope complexity with regards to interfaces is discussed. Secondly, the standardisation approach for monitoring and control interfaces to facilitate early elicitation of interface requirements for the TM, and to manage the diversity of interfacing subsystems is discussed. Thirdly, the relations between interface definition and requirements analysis activities, using SysML representations as an example is discussed.

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MOPGF047

Revolution Project: Progress in the Evolution of Soleil Motion Control Model

controls, software, hardware, embedded

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S.Z. Zhang, Y.-M. Abiven, F. Blache, D. Corruble, C.K. Kheffafa
SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
S.M. Minolli
NEXEYA SYSTEMS, LA COURONNE, France

Funding: Work supported by XT.Tran, M.Cerato, G.Renaud, E.Fonda and SAMBA Beamline staff, Delta Tau Ldt., IMO JEAMBRUN AUTOMATION, Observatory-Sciences Ldt.
SOLEIL is a third generation synchrotron radiation source located near Paris in France. REVOLUTION (REconsider Various contrOLler for yoUr motion) is the motion controller upgrade project currently in progress at SOLEIL. It was initiated to maintain the facility operations by addressing the risk of hardware obsolescence in motion control but at the same time making room for complex applications requirements to face new high performance challenges. In order to achieve these considerations, SOLEIL's strategy move was to go from a single controller for all applications to two motion controllers. A first Controller GALIL DMC-4183 was chosen to succeed the previous version DMC-2182. Both controllers can be integrated in the existing architecture with little hardware and software adaptation enabling full compatibility with the existing architecture. A second controller, Delta Tau Power Brick, has been selected as a HIGH PERFORMANCE solution providing advanced functionality. The CLASSIC controller upgrade is about to be completed and the integration of Power Brick into the SOLEIL control system is ongoing. The system complexity is abstracted by embedding processing functions into low-level code and giving end-users a simple high-level interface. The work done to structure the interfacing and standardization of the controller are detailed in this paper.

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MOPGF049

100Hz Data Acquisition in the TANGO Control System at the Max IV Linac

linac, controls, hardware, electron

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P.J. Bell, V.H. Hardion, V. Michel
MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden

The MAX IV synchrotron radiation facility is currently being constructed in Lund, Sweden. A linear accelerator serves as the injector for the two storage rings and also as the source of short X ray pulses, in which mode it will operate with a 100Hz repetition rate. The controls system, based on TANGO, is required to collect and archive data from several different types of hardware at up to this 100Hz frequency. These data are used for example in offline beam diagnostics, for which they must be associated to a unique electron bunch number. To meet these requirements, the timing performance of the hardware components have been studied, and a TANGO Fast Archiver device created. The system is currently in the deployment phase and will play an important role in allowing the linac and Short Pulse Facility reach their 100Hz design goal

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MOPGF050

Tango-Kepler Integration at ELI-ALPS

controls, device-server, database, framework

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P. Ács, S. Brockhauser, L.J. Fülöp, V. Hanyecz, M. Kiss, Cs. Koncz, L. Schrettner
ELI-ALPS, Szeged, Hungary

Funding: The ELI-ALPS project (GOP-1.1.1-12/B-2012-000, GINOP-2.3.6-15-2015-00001) is supported by the European Union and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.
ELI-ALPS will provide a wide range of attosecond pulses which will be used for performing experiments by international research groups. ELI-ALPS will use the TANGO Controls framework to build up the central control system and to integrate the autonomous subsystems regarding software monitoring and control. Beside a robust central and integrated control system a flexible and dynamic high level environment could be beneficial. The envisioned users will come from diverse fields including chemistry, biology, physics or medicine. Most of the users will not have programming or scripting background. Meanwhile workflow system provides visual programming facilities where the logics can be drawn, which is understandable by the potential users. We have integrated TANGO into the Kepler workflow system because it gives a lot of actors for all natural scientific fields. Moreover it has the potential for running the workflows on HPC or GRID resources. We demonstrated the usability of the development with a beamline simulation. The TANGO-Kepler integration provides an easy-to-use environment for the users therefore it can facilitate e.g. the standardization of measurements protocols as well.

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MOPGF051

ELI-ALPS Control System Status Report

controls, software, laser, beam-transport

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L.J. Fülöp, S. Brockhauser, S. Farkas, V. Hanyecz, M. Kiss, M.T. Koncz, Á. Mohácsi, K. Nelissen, L. Schrettner, B. Szalai, P. Szász, C. Turner
ELI-ALPS, Szeged, Hungary

Funding: The ELI-ALPS project (GOP-1.1.1-12/B-2012-000, GINOP-2.3.6-15-2015-00001) is supported by the European Union and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.
ELI-ALPS will provide a wide range of attosecond pulses which will be used for performing chemical, biological, physical or medical experiments by international research groups. It is one pillar of the first international laser facility for the scientific user communities. ELI-ALPS uses the TANGO Controls framework to build up the central control system and to integrate the autonomous subsystems regarding monitoring and control. It will be also used for the implementation of some autonomous systems' control system while others will be implemented differently. The central control system and the integration strategy of the autonomous systems is designed. The centralization and integration needs are surveyed and the requirements are collected. Prototypes have been developed to clarify the requirements and to test the designs. Requirements elicitation, designing and prototype development follows a Lean-Agile approach and includes several fields: device drivers and simulators; integration logic; central supervision, archiving, logging and error recovery; graphical user interfaces and so on.

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MOPGF058

Neutron Scattering Instrument Control System Modernization - Front-End Hardware and Software Adaption Problems

device-server, controls, detector, software

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M. Drochner, L. Fleischhauer-Fuss, H. Kleines, M. Wagener, S. van Waasen
FZJ, Jülich, Germany

When the FRM-2 neutron source went into operation (2002) and many instruments were moved from the closed-down Jülich reactor to the new facility, it was agreed on a choice of front-end hardware and the TACO middleware from ESRF. To keep up with software standards, it was decided recently to switch to TACO's successor - the TANGO control software. For a unified "user experience", new graphical user interface software "NICOS-2" is being developed by the software group at FRM2. While general semantics of TACO and TANGO don't look very different at a first glance, and adaption of device servers seemed to be straightforward at first, various problems in practical operation were found. The problems were due to differences in state handling, timing behavior and error reporting. These problems, and the changes that had to be made to ensure reliable operation again, will be described.

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MOPGF063

The New TANGO-based Control and Data Acquisition of the Neutron Instrument DNS at FRM II

controls, neutron, software, PLC

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H. Kleines, M. Bednarek, K. Bussmann, M. Drochner, L. Fleischhauer-Fuss, S. Janaschke, S. Keuler, K.-H. Mertens, S. Su, F. Suxdorf, S. van Waasen
FZJ, Jülich, Germany

Forschungszentrum Jülich has been operating the neutron Instrument DNS at the neutron source FRM II for about 10 years. DNS is a time of flight neutron spectrometer with polarization analysis that experienced a major upgrade in 2014 and 2015. During the upgrade DNS was equipped with new electronics and a new control and data acquisition system, including a transition from the existing TACO system to its successor TANGO. On the client side the NICOS software developed at FRM II is used for the implementation of measurement operations and user interface. The design of the new control and data acquisition system is presented and the lessons learned by the introduction of TANGO are reported.

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MOPGF065

Motion Control on the Max IV Soft X-Ray Beamlines With Tango and Sardana

controls, GUI, synchrotron, software

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M. Lindberg, J. Forsberg, L. Kjellsson, A.M. Milan, C. Såthe, P. Sjöblom, S. Urpelainen
MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden

MAX IV Laboratory, a synchrotron facility in Lund, has selected TANGO as the control system framework for the entire facility. On the beamlines that are being built the Python-based SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system Sardana will be used for experimental control. SPECIES, one out of eight new soft X-ray beamlines, is used as a test bench for evaluating the chosen standards. Sardana is used to control the energy setting of the PGM (plane grating monochromator) as well as to provide macros and other utilities for the user. Generic Taurus GUIs and a SVG-synoptic give the user a way to interact with the control system and display relevant information. The standardized graphical interfaces give a familiar look and feel across the entire facility. All motorized axes are controlled with the IcePAP motion controller. For the axes of the PGM, the IcePAP driver operates in hardware closed loop. Special care is taken in order to avoid slow and inaccurate movements of the PGM energy due to the non-linear relationship between the motors and the angular encoders.

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MOPGF111

TANGO Integration of a Specific Hardware through HTTP-server

controls, power-supply, software, Windows

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A. Panov, A.A. Korepanov
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

MAX IV and Solaris are new synchrotrons third generation. MAX IV synchrotron consist of 1.5 GeV storage ring, 3.0 GeV storage ring and linac; it is located in Lund, Sweden. Solaris synchrotron is a replica of the 1.5 GeV storage ring of the MAX IV project; it is located in Kraków, Poland. Structure of storage rings contains several pulse magnets (kicker and pinger). Control system of pulse power supplies based on LTR crate with several modules (ADC, DAC, input/output registers etc.). LTR crate is product Russian firm L-CARD. LTR crate is crate with integrated controller (ADSP Blackfin BF537) and PLC EP1C30 with direct connection to modules. In order to communicate with crate native LTR-server is used. LTR-server is a Windows application based on use of sockets. Control system of MAX IV and Solaris uses TANGO. For integration LTR-crates in final structure, special software gateway (csMAXIVltr) is used. This gateway is a set of several specific Windows applications implemented by using Qt5 libraries. Gateway allow communicating TANGO- server with crate through built-in HTTP-server. In final structure of control system csMAXIVltr will be work on a Windows virtual machine.

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MOPGF113

Controls and Interlocks for the New Elettra Super Conducting Wiggler

controls, vacuum, wiggler, storage-ring

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L. Pivetta, F. Giacuzzo, G. Scalamera, D. Vittor
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy

During the last two years, triggered by the construction of the XRD2 beamline, and to comply with the top-up operations, a complete refurbishment of the Elettra Super Conducting Wiggler (SCW) has been carried out. Alongside with the mechanical, cryogenic and electrical components, also the electronics, the control and interlock systems have been upgraded. The MVME5110 PowerPC single board computer, which is a standard in the Elettra control system, has been adopted, as well as RS232 communication modules, analog to digital converters and digital I/O lines. In order to cope with the high output power of the SCW, up to18 KW, the interlock system, protecting both the wiggler and the beamline front-end, has been completely redesigned. The control system software has been re-written from scratch using the TANGO software framework. The complete system has been tested during the second half of 2014 and is now fully operational.

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MOPGF140

Integration of PLC's in Tango Control Systems Using PyPLC

controls, PLC, GUI, database

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S. Rubio-Manrique, M. Broseta, G. Cuní, D. Fernández-Carreiras, A. Rubio, J. Villanueva
ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

The Equipment Protection Systems and Personnel Safety Systems of the ALBA Synchrotron are complex and highly distributed control systems based on PLC's from different vendors. EPS and PSS not only regulate the interlocks of the whole ALBA facility but provide an extense network of analog and digital sensors that collect information from all subsystems; as well as its logical states. TANGO is the Control System framework used at ALBA, providing several tools and services (GUI's, Archiving, Alarms) in which EPS and PSS systems must be integrated. PyPLC, a dynamic Tango device, have been developed in python to provide a flexible interface and enable PLC developers to automatically update it. This paper describes how protection systems and the PLC code generation cycle have been fully integrated within TANGO Control System at ALBA.

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MOPGF149

Nuclotron and NICA Control System Development Status

controls, database, network, monitoring

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E.V. Gorbachev, V. Andreev, A. Kirichenko, D.V. Monakhov, S. Romanov, T.V. Rukoyatkina
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
G.S. Sedykh, V. Volkov
JINR/VBLHEP, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia

The Nuclotron is a 6 GeV/n superconducting proton synchrotron operating at JINR, Dubna since 1993. It will be the core of the future accelerating complex NICA which is under construction now. NICA will provide collider experiments with heavy ions at nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energies of 4-11 GeV. The TANGO based control system of the accelerating complex is under development now. This paper describes its structure, main features and present status.

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MOPGF163

Status of the Local Monitor and Control System of SKA Dishes

controls, monitoring, interface, software

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S. Riggi, U. Becciani, A. Costa, A. Ingallinera, F. Schillirò, C. Trigilio
INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy
V. Baldini, R. Cirami, A. Marassi
INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
G. Nicotra, C. Nocita
INAF IRA, Bologna, Italy

The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project aims at building the world's largest radio observatory to observe the radio sky with unprecedented sensitivity and collecting area. In the SKA1 phase of the project, two dish arrays are to be built, one in South Africa (SKA1-Mid) and the other in Western Australia (SKA1-Survey). Each antenna will be provided with a local monitor and control system, enabling remote operations to engineers and to the Telescope Manager system. In this paper we present the current status of the software system being designed to monitor and control the dish subsystem. An overview of the dish instrumentation is reported, along with details concerning the software architecture, functional interfaces, prototyping and the evaluated technologies.

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MOPGF172

Bringing Quality in the Controls Software Delivery Process

software, controls, Windows, Linux

485

Z. Reszela, G. Cuní, C.M. Falcón Torres, D. Fernández-Carreiras, G. Jover-Mañas, C. Pascual-Izarra, R. Pastor Ortiz, M. Rosanes Siscart, S. Rubio-Manrique
ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

The Alba Controls Group develops and operates a diverse variety of controls software which is shared within international communities of users and developers. This includes: generic frameworks like Sardana* and Taurus**, numerous Tango*** device servers and applications where, among others, we can find PyAlarm and Panic****, and specific experiment procedures and hardware controllers. A study has commenced on how to improve the delivery process of our software from the hands of developers to laboratories, by making this process more reliable, predictable and risk-controlled. Automated unit and acceptance tests combined with the continuous integration, have been introduced, providing valuable and fast feedback to the developers. In order to renew and automate our legacy packaging and deployment system we have evaluated modern alternatives. The above practices were brought together into a design of the continuous delivery pipelines which were validated on a set of diverse software. This paper presents this study, its results and a proposal of the cost-effective implementation.
*http://taurus-scada.org
**http://sardana-controls.org
***http://tango-controls.org
****S. Rubio-Manrique, 'PANIC a Suite for Visualization, Logging and Notification of Incidents', Proc. of PCaPAC2014.

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MOPGF179

Status of the Solaris Control System - Collaborations and Technology

controls, software, operation, GUI

510

P.P. Goryl, C.J. Bocchetta, P. Bulira, A.I. Wawrzyniak, K. Wawrzyniak, L. Żytniak
Solaris, Kraków, Poland
V.H. Hardion, J.J. Jamróz, J. Lidón-Simon, M. Lindberg, A.G. Persson, D.P. Spruce
MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
M.J. Stankiewicz
Solaris National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
T. Szymocha
Cyfronet, Kraków, Poland

Funding: Work supported by the European Regional Development Fund within the frame of the Innovative Economy Operational Program: POIG.02.01.00-12-213/09.
The Solaris is a synchrotron light source starting just now in Kraków, Poland. It is built with strong collaboration with other European accelerator facilities. The MAX-IV project in Lund, Sweden and Tango Community are the most important partners in the project. Solaris has built a twin copy of MAX-IV 1.5GeV ring and linear accelerator based on the same components as the ones of MAX-IV. Thus, both facilities share know-how and apply similar technologies for the control system, among them the Tango CS is used for software layer. Status of the control system in Kraków as well as collaborations and technological choices impact on its success will be presented.

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TUD3I01

The LMJ Target Diagnostics Control System Architecture

diagnostics, controls, target, software

565

S. Perez, T. Caillaud
CEA, Arpajon, France

The French Laser Megajoule (LMJ) is, behind the US NIF, the second largest inertial fusion facility in the World. The main activity of this facility is the acquisition of several physical phenomena as neutron, gamma, X rays…produced by the indirect attack of hundreds of high power laser beams on targets through measurement devices called "target diagnostics". More than 30 diagnostics will be installed and driven in a huge and complex integrated computer control system. The aim of this paper is to describe an architecture based on the Tango open source software for the very low level control system, Python language for the development of drivers and the French commercial PANORAMA software as the main high level SCADA. This choice leads to guaranty the evolution of the middleware software architecture of this facility supposed to be operated during dozen of years with the capability of using many instruments including sustainability.

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WEA3O01

The TANGO Controls Collaboration in 2015

controls, device-server, laser, experiment

585

A. Götz, J.M. Chaize, T.M. Coutinho, J.L. Pons, E.T. Taurel, P.V. Verdier
ESRF, Grenoble, France
G. Abeillé
SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
S. Brockhauser, L.J. Fülöp
ELI-ALPS, Szeged, Hungary
M.O. Cernaianu
IFIN-HH, Bucharest - Magurele, Romania
I.A. Khokhriakov
HZG, Geesthacht, Germany
R. Smareglia
INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
A. Vázquez-Otero
ELI-BEAMS, Prague, Czech Republic

This paper presents the latest news from the TANGO collaboration. TANGO is being used in new domains. The three ELI pillars - ELI-Beamlines, ELI-ALPS and ELI-NP in Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania respectively have selected TANGO for many of their control systems. In ELI-Beamlines and ELI-Alps, TANGO will play the role of integrating all the hardware and turn-key systems (some delivered with EPICS or Labview) into one integrated system. In ELI-NP, the HPLS and LBTS will be controlled using TANGO, while the GBS will be controlled using EPICS. On the experimental side, ELI-NP will use both TANGO and EPICS control systems. TANGO will be extended with new features required by the laser community. These features will include nanosecond time-stamping. The latest major release of TANGO V9 includes the following features - data pipes, enumerated types, dynamic commands and forwarded attributes. The collaboration has been extended to include the new members and to provide a sustainable source of resources through collaboration contracts. A new website (http://www.tango-controls.org/) has been designed which improves the communication within the community.

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WEA3O03

Towards Building Reusability in Control Systems - a Journey

controls, DSL, framework, target

593

P. Patwari, A.S. Banerjee, G. Muralikrishna, S. Roy Chaudhuri
Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune, India

Development of similar systems leads to a strong motivation for reuse. Our involvement with three large experimental physics facilities led us to appreciate this better in the context of development of their respective monitoring and control (M&C) software. We realized that the approach to allowing reuse follows the onion skin model that is, building re-usability in each layer in the solution to the problem. The same motivation led us to create a generic M&C architecture through our first collaborative effort which resulted into a fairly formal M&C domain model. The second collaboration showed us the need to have a common vocabulary that could be used across multiple systems to specify respective domain specific M&C solutions at higher levels of abstraction implemented using the generic underlying M&C engine. This resulted in our definition and creation of a domain specific language for M&C. The third collaboration leads us to imagine capturing domain knowledge using the common vocabulary which will substantially further reuse, this thought is already demonstrated through a preliminary prototype. We discuss our learning through this journey in this paper.

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WED3O04

HDB++: A New Archiving System for TANGO

database, device-server, GUI, interface

652

L. Pivetta, C. Scafuri, G. Scalamera, G. Strangolino, L. Zambon
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
R. Bourtembourg, J.L. Pons, P.V. Verdier
ESRF, Grenoble, France

The TANGO release 8 led to several enhancements, including the adoption of the ZeroMQ library for faster and lightweight event-driven communication. Exploiting these improved capabilities, a high performance, event-driven archiving system written in C++ has been developed. It inherits the database structure from the existing TANGO Historical Data Base (HDB) and introduces new storage architecture possibilities, better internal diagnostic capabilities and an optimized API. Its design allows storing data into traditional database management systems such as MySQL or into NoSQL database such as Apache Cassandra. This paper describes the software design of the new HDB++ archiving system, the current state of the implementation and gives some performance figures and use cases.

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WEM309

A Graphical Tool for Viewing and Interacting with a Control System

controls, software, vacuum, interface

681

J. Forsberg, V.H. Hardion, D.P. Spruce
MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden

This paper presents a graphical interface for displaying status information and enabling user interaction with the Tango based control system for the MAX IV synchrotron. It focuses on bringing an intuitive view of the whole system, so that operators can quickly access the controls for any hardware based on its physical location. The view is structured into different layers that can be selectively shown, and various live updated information can be displayed in the form of e.g. colour or text. Panning and zooming is supported, as well as invoking commands. The interface is defined by an SVG drawing which can be edited without programming expertise. Since our system is based on modern web technologies, it can be run as a web service accessible by standard browsers, but it can also be integrated in GUI applications.

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WEM310

How Cassandra Improves Performances and Availability of HDB++ Tango Archiving System

database, device-server, GUI, controls

685

R. Bourtembourg, J.L. Pons, P.V. Verdier
ESRF, Grenoble, France

The TANGO release 8 led to several enhancements, including the adoption of the ZeroMQ library for faster and lightweight event-driven communication. Exploiting these improved capabilities, a high performance, event-driven archiving system, named Tango HDB++*, has been developed. Its design gives the possibility to store archiving data into Apache Cassandra: a high performance scalable NoSQL distributed database, providing High Availability service and replication, with no single point of failure. HDB++ with Cassandra will open up new perspectives for TANGO in the era of big data and will be the starting point of new big data analytics/data mining applications, breaking the limits of the archiving systems which are based on traditional relational databases. This paper describes the current state of the implementation and our experience with Apache Cassandra in the scope of the Tango HDB++ project. It also gives some performance figures and use cases where using Cassandra with Tango HDB++ is a good fit.
* HDB++ project is the result of a collaboration between the Elettra synchrotron (Trieste) and the European Radiation Synchrotron Facility (Grenoble)

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WEPGF049

The Unified Anka Archiving System - a Powerful Wrapper to Scada Systems like Tango and WinCC OA

database, controls, interface, synchrotron

810

D. Haas, S.A. Chilingaryan, A. Kopmann, W. Mexner, D. Ressmann
KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

ANKA realized a new unified archiving system for the typical synchrotron control systems by integrating their logging databases into the "Advanced Data Extraction Infrastructure" (ADEI). ANKA's control system environment is heterogeneous: some devices are integrated into the Tango archiving system, other sensors are logged by the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system WinCC OA. For both systems modules exist to configure the pool of sensors to be archived in the individual control system databases. ADEI has been developed to provide a unified data access layer for large time-series data sets. It supports internal data processing, caching, data aggregation and fast visualization in the web. Intelligent caching strategies ensure fast access even to huge data sets stored in the attached data sources like SQL databases. With its data abstraction layer the new ANKA archiving system is the foundation for automated monitoring while keeping the freedom to integrate nearly any control system flavor. The ANKA archiving system has been introduced successfully at three beamlines. It is operating stable since about one year and it is intended to extend it to the whole facility.

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WEPGF056

Flyscan: a Fast and Multi-technique Data Acquisition Platform for the SOLEIL Beamlines

synchrotron, hardware, timing, network

826

N. Leclercq, J. Bisou, F. Blache, F. Langlois, S. Lê, K. Medjoubi, C. Mocuta, S. Poirier
SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

SOLEIL is continuously optimizing its 29 beamlines in order to provide its users with state of the art synchrotron radiation based experimental techniques. Among the topics addressed by the related transversal projects, the enhancement of the computing tools is identified as a high priority task. In this area, the aim is to optimize the beam time usage providing the users with a fast, simultaneous and multi-technique scanning platform. The concrete implementation of this general concept allows the users to acquire more data in the same amount of beam time. The present paper provides the reader with an overview of so call 'Flyscan' project currently under deployment at SOLEIL. It notably details a solution in which an unbounded number of distributed actuators and sensors share a common trigger clock and deliver their data into temporary files. The latter are immediately merged into common file(s) in order to make the whole experiment data available for on-line processing and visualization. Some application examples are also commented in order to illustrate the advantages of the Flyscan approach.

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WEPGF097

Local Monitoring and Control System for the SKA Telescope Manager: A Knowledge-Based System Approach for Issues Identification Within a Logging Service

software, controls, database, interface

930

M. Di Carlo, M. Dolci
INAF - OA Teramo, Teramo, Italy
R. Smareglia
INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
P.S. Swart, G.M. le Roux
SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

The SKA Telescope Manager (SKA. TM) is a distributed software application aimed to control the operation of thousands of radio telescopes, antennas and auxiliary systems (e.g. infrastructures, signal processors, …) which will compose the Square Kilometre Array, the world's largest radio astronomy facility currently under development. SKA. TM, as an "element" of the SKA, is composed in turn by a set of sub-elements whose tight coordination is ensured by a specific sub-element called "Local Monitoring and Control" (TM.LMC). TM.LMC is mainly focussed on the life cycle management of TM, the acquisition of every network-related information useful to understand how TM is performing and the logging library for both online and offline sub-elements. Given the high complexity of the system, identifying the origin of an issue, as soon as a problem occurs, appears to be a hard task. To allow a prompt diagnostics analysis by engineers, operators and software developers, a Knowledge-Based System (KBS) approach is proposed and described for the logging service.

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WEPGF120

Timing System at MAX IV - Status and Development

linac, timing, storage-ring, controls

984

J.J. Jamróz, J. Forsberg, V.H. Hardion, V. Martos, D.P. Spruce
MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden

Funding: MAX IV Laboratory
A MAX IV construction of two storage rings (SR1.5GeV and SR3GeV) and a short pulse facility (SPF) has been proceeding over last years and will be finished in the middle of 2016. In 2014, few timing procurements were successfully finalized according to the MAX IV requirements and the installation works are ongoing along with the TANGO control system integration.
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WEPGF145

A Structured Approach to Control System GUI Design for the Solaris Light Source

software, controls, operation, GUI

1044

V. Juvan, I. Dolin'ek, T. Humar, M. Pavleski
Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
P.P. Goryl
Solaris, Kraków, Poland

In the framework of delivering control system services to the Solaris synchrotron light source, Kraków, Poland, Cosylab realized a comprehensive set of controls GUIs, using a structured approach. The goals of using this architecture are threefold. The first is to achieve reliable, predictable and consistent behaviour of the controls software. The second is that it is easy to deploy and maintain through scripting. The third is that it is future-proof by providing extensibility, using dedicated templates. The system is based on a configuration database, populated with devices, device specifics and device groups (clusters of devices performing specific operations). The GUIs are dynamically generated from this configuration. For the synoptic views, TANGO-standard JDraw and its configuration are integrated into the framework. Existing GUIs, written in PyTango can be easily adapted to function as part of this system. The compelling user benefits are high usability and life-time management through controlled upgrade and extension. For new big physics projects this GUI control program offers a customizable solution for any TANGO based control system.

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WEPGF148

Unifying All TANGO Control Services in a Customizable Graphical User Interface

controls, GUI, framework, interface

1052

S. Rubio-Manrique, G. Cuní, D. Fernández-Carreiras, C. Pascual-Izarra, D. Roldán
ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
E. Al-Dmour
MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden

TANGO is a distributed Control System with an active community of developers. The community features multiple services like Archiving or Alarms with an heterogeneous mix of technologies and look-and-feels that must be integrated in the final user workflow. The Viewer and Commander Control Application (VACCA) was developed on top of Taurus to provide TANGO with the user experience of a commercial SCADA, keeping the advantages of open source. The Taurus GUI application enables scientists to design their own live applications using drag-and-drop from the widget catalog. The VACCA User Interface provides a template mechanism for synoptic-driven applications and extends the widget catalog to interact with all the components of the control system (Alarms, Archiving, Databases, Hosts Administration). The elements of VACCA are described in this paper, as well as its mechanisms to encapsulate all services in a GUI for an specific subsystem (e.g. Vacuum).

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WEPGF152

Time Travel Made Possible at FERMI by the Time-Machine Application

database, interface, controls, framework

1059

G. Strangolino, M. Lonza, L. Pivetta
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy

The TANGO archiving system HDB++ continuously stores data over time into the historical database. The new time-machine application, a specialization of the extensively used save/restore framework, allows bringing back sets of control system variables to their values at a precise date and time in the past. Given the desired time stamp t0 and a set of TANGO attributes, the values recorded at the most recent date and time preceding or equaling t0 are fetched from the historical database. The user can examine the list of variables with their values before performing a full or partial restoration of the set. The time-machine seamlessly integrates with the well known save/restore application, sharing many of its characteristics and functionalities, such as the matrix-based subset selection, the live difference view and the simple and effective user interface.

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THHC3O03

Effortless Creation of Control & Data Acquisition Graphical User Interfaces with Taurus

controls, GUI, EPICS, interface

1138

C. Pascual-Izarra, G. Cuní, C.M. Falcón Torres, D. Fernández-Carreiras, Z. Reszela, M. Rosanes Siscart
ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
T.M. Coutinho
ESRF, Grenoble, France

Creating and supporting Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for experiment control and data acquisition has traditionally been a major drain of time and resources for laboratories. GUIs often need to be adapted to new equipment or methods, but typical users lack the technical skills to perform the required modifications, let alone to create new GUIs. Here we present the Taurus* framework which allows a non-programmer to create a fully-featured GUI (with forms, plots, synoptics, etc) from scratch in a few minutes using a "wizard" as well as to customize and expand it by drag-and-dropping elements around at execution time. Moreover, Taurus also gives full control to more advanced users to access, create and customize a GUI programmatically using Python. Taurus is a free, open source, multi-platform pure Python module (it uses PyQt for the GUI). Its support and development are driven by an active and welcoming community participated by several major laboratories and companies which use it for their developments. While Taurus was originally designed within the Sardana** suite for the Tango*** control system, now it can also support other control systems (even simultaneously) via plug-ins.
* Taurus Home Page: http://taurus-scada.org** Sardana Home Page: http://sardana-controls.org*** Tango Home Page: http://tango-controls.org

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