ICALEPCS2017 - List of Authors (Ebner, S.G.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOAPL04	SwissFEL Control System - Overview, Status, and Lessons Learned	19
	E. Zimoch, A.D. Alarcon, D. Anicic, A.G. Bertrand, R. Biffiger, K. Bitterli, M. Boccioli, H. Brands, P. Bucher, T. Celcer, P. Chevtsov, E.J. Divall, S.G. Ebner, M. Gasche, F. Haemmerli, C.E. Higgs, T. Humar, M. Janousch, G. Janser, G. Jud, B. Kalantari, R. Kapeller, R.A. Krempaská, D.J. Lauk, M.P. Laznovsky, H. Lutz, D. Maier-Manojlovic, F. Märki, V. Ovinnikov, T. Pal, W. Portmann, S.G. Rees, T. Zamofing, C. Zellweger, D. Zimoch PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	The SwissFEL is a new free electron laser facility at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland. Commissioning started in 2016 and resulted in first lasing in December 2016 (albeit not on the design energy). In 2017, the commissioning continued and will result in the first pilot experiments at the end of the year. The close interaction of experiment and accelerator components as well as the pulsed electron beam required a well thought out integration of the control system including some new concepts and layouts. This paper presents the current status of the control system together with some lessons learned.
	Talk as video stream: https://youtu.be/oaGDyYYzKJ4
	Slides MOAPL04 [2.258 MB]
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TUCPA06	SwissFEL - Beam Synchronous Data Acquisition - The First Year	276
	S.G. Ebner, H. Brands, B. Kalantari, R. Kapeller, F. Märki, L. Sala, C. Zellweger PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	The SwissFEL beam-synchronous data-acquisition system is based on several novel concepts and technologies. It is targeted on immediate data availability and online processing and is capable of assembling an overall data view of the whole machine, thanks to its distributed and scalable back-end. Load on data sources is reduced by immediately streaming data as soon as it becomes available. The streaming technology used provides load balancing and fail-over by design. Data channels from various sources can be efficiently aggregated and combined into new data streams for immediate online monitoring, data analysis and processing. The system is dynamically configurable, various acquisition frequencies can be enabled, and data can be kept for a defined time window. All data is available and accessible enabling advanced pattern detection and correlation during acquisition time. Accessing the data in a code-agnostic way is also possible through the same REST API that is used by the web-frontend. We will give an overview of the design and specialities of the system as well as talk about the findings and problems we faced during machine commissioning.
	Slides TUCPA06 [5.107 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-TUCPA06
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TUSH102	PShell: from SLS beamlines to the SwissFEL control room	979
	A. Gobbo, S.G. Ebner PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	PShell is an in-house developed scripting environment in use at PSI since 2014. Started as a beamline data acquisition tool at SLS, PShell is being used by different SwissFEL groups for the commissioning and operation of the SwissFEL machine. New features were added to meet new requirements, such as supporting beam synchronous data and streamed cameras. Besides providing a workbench for developing data acquisition logic, PShell also offers a convenient way to create user interfaces/panels that can easily trigger the execution of logic. To improve user experience and to simplify operation tools these panels can also be launched and used as standalone applications.
	Poster TUSH102 [1.542 MB]
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Paper

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SwissFEL Control System - Overview, Status, and Lessons Learned

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E. Zimoch, A.D. Alarcon, D. Anicic, A.G. Bertrand, R. Biffiger, K. Bitterli, M. Boccioli, H. Brands, P. Bucher, T. Celcer, P. Chevtsov, E.J. Divall, S.G. Ebner, M. Gasche, F. Haemmerli, C.E. Higgs, T. Humar, M. Janousch, G. Janser, G. Jud, B. Kalantari, R. Kapeller, R.A. Krempaská, D.J. Lauk, M.P. Laznovsky, H. Lutz, D. Maier-Manojlovic, F. Märki, V. Ovinnikov, T. Pal, W. Portmann, S.G. Rees, T. Zamofing, C. Zellweger, D. Zimoch
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

The SwissFEL is a new free electron laser facility at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland. Commissioning started in 2016 and resulted in first lasing in December 2016 (albeit not on the design energy). In 2017, the commissioning continued and will result in the first pilot experiments at the end of the year. The close interaction of experiment and accelerator components as well as the pulsed electron beam required a well thought out integration of the control system including some new concepts and layouts. This paper presents the current status of the control system together with some lessons learned.

Talk as video stream: https://youtu.be/oaGDyYYzKJ4

Slides MOAPL04 [2.258 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-MOAPL04

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TUCPA06

SwissFEL - Beam Synchronous Data Acquisition - The First Year

276

S.G. Ebner, H. Brands, B. Kalantari, R. Kapeller, F. Märki, L. Sala, C. Zellweger
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

The SwissFEL beam-synchronous data-acquisition system is based on several novel concepts and technologies. It is targeted on immediate data availability and online processing and is capable of assembling an overall data view of the whole machine, thanks to its distributed and scalable back-end. Load on data sources is reduced by immediately streaming data as soon as it becomes available. The streaming technology used provides load balancing and fail-over by design. Data channels from various sources can be efficiently aggregated and combined into new data streams for immediate online monitoring, data analysis and processing. The system is dynamically configurable, various acquisition frequencies can be enabled, and data can be kept for a defined time window. All data is available and accessible enabling advanced pattern detection and correlation during acquisition time. Accessing the data in a code-agnostic way is also possible through the same REST API that is used by the web-frontend. We will give an overview of the design and specialities of the system as well as talk about the findings and problems we faced during machine commissioning.

Slides TUCPA06 [5.107 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-TUCPA06

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TUSH102

PShell: from SLS beamlines to the SwissFEL control room

979

A. Gobbo, S.G. Ebner
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

PShell is an in-house developed scripting environment in use at PSI since 2014. Started as a beamline data acquisition tool at SLS, PShell is being used by different SwissFEL groups for the commissioning and operation of the SwissFEL machine. New features were added to meet new requirements, such as supporting beam synchronous data and streamed cameras. Besides providing a workbench for developing data acquisition logic, PShell also offers a convenient way to create user interfaces/panels that can easily trigger the execution of logic. To improve user experience and to simplify operation tools these panels can also be launched and used as standalone applications.

Poster TUSH102 [1.542 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-TUSH102

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