Author: Perazzo, A.
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MODPL06
 Recent and Future Upgrades to the Control Systems of LCLS and LCLS-II Scientific Instruments  
 
  • D.L. Flath, M.C. Browne, M.L. Gibbs, K. Gumerlock, B.L. Hill, A. Perazzo, M.V. Shankar, T.A. Wallace, D.H. Zhang
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  
  Funding: LCLS is an Office of Science User Facility operated for the US Department of Energy Office of Science by Stanford University.
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, achieved first light in 2009; a total of seven scientific instruments were commissioned through 2015. The EPICS-based control system, in terms of both hardware and software has evolved significantly over eight years of operation as the rate of experiment delivery has increased through means such as photon-beam multiplexing. A description of the upgrades and improvements to hardware, software, tools, and procedures will be presented. Additional discussion points will focus on: (1) the positive effect of upgrades regarding reduction of staffing levels and required skill-level required to support operations; (2) enabling highly skilled staff to focus on further improvements; and (3) current and future upgrades required to support the LCLS-II which will further expand experiment output when it achieves first light in 2020. LCLS-II topics include requirements for automation of routine tasks such as x-ray and optical-laser beam alignment, and focusing as well as improvements to user-interfaces and user-experience which will allow users and non-expert staff to execute experiments. 		 
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THPHA022 Roadmap for SLAC Epics-Based Software Toolkit for the LCLS-I/II Complex 1389
 
  • D. Rogind, D.L. Flath, M.L. Gibbs, B.L. Hill, T.J. Maxwell, A. Perazzo, M.V. Shankar, G.R. White, E. Williams, S. Zelazny
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  
  With the advent of LCLS-II, SLAC must effectively and collectively plan for operation of its premiere scientific production facility. LCLS-II presents unique new challenges for SLAC, with its electron beam rate of up to 1MHz, complex bunch patterns, and multiple beam destinations. These machine advancements, along with long-term goals for automated tuning, model dependent and independent analysis, and machine learning provide strong motivation to enhance the SLAC software toolkit based on augmenting EPICS V3 to take full advantage of EPICS V4 - which supports structured data and facilitates a language-agnostic middle-ware service layer. The software platform upgrade path in support of controls, online physics and experimental facilities software for the LCLS-I/II complex is described.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-THPHA022  
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