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RIS citation export for THBPL05: The ELT Linux Development Environment

TY - CONF
AU - Pellegrin, F.
AU - Rosenquist, C.
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
ED - Costa, Isidre
ED - Fernández, David
ED - Matilla, Óscar
TI - The ELT Linux Development Environment
J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2017, Barcelona, Spain, 8-13 October 2017
C1 - Barcelona, Spain
T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Control Systems
T3 - 16
LA - english
AB - The Extremely Large Telescope is a 39-metre ground-based telescope being built by ESO. It will be the largest optical/near-infrared telescope in the world and first light is foreseen for 2024. The overall ELT Linux development environment will be presented with an in-depth presentation of its core, the waf build system, and the customizations that ESO is currently developing. The ELT software development for telescopes and instruments poses many challenges to cover the different needs of such a complex system:a variety of technologies, Java, C/C++ and Python as programming languages, Qt5 as the GUI toolkit, communication frameworks such as OPCUA, DDS and ZeroMQ, the interaction with entities such as PLCs and real-time hardware, and users, in-house and not, looking at new usage patterns. All this optimized to be on time for the first light. To meet these requirements, a set of tools was selected. Its content ranges from an IDE, to compilers, interpreters, analysis and debugging tools for the various languages and operations. At the heart of the toolkit lies the modern build framework waf:a versatile tool written in Python selected due to its multiple language support and high performance.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 1125
EP - 1130
KW - ion
KW - software
KW - target
KW - framework
KW - Linux
DA - 2018/01
PY - 2018
SN - 978-3-95450-193-9
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-THBPL05
UR - http://jacow.org/icalepcs2017/papers/thbpl05.pdf
ER -