ICALEPCS1991 - List of Authors (Raich, U.)

Paper	Title	Page
S13MMI09	Porting Linac Applieation Programs to a Windowing Environment	479
	J.-M. Nonglaton, U. Raich CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
	We report our experience in porting Linac application programs written for CAMAC controlled hardware consoles to an X·Windows/Motif based workstation environment. Application programs acquire their parameter values from a front end computer (FEC), controlling the acceleration process, via a local area network. The timing for data acquisition and control is determined by the particle source timing. Two server programs on the FEC for repetitive acquisition and command-response mode will be described. The application programs on the workstations access a common parameter access server who establishes the necessary connection to the parameters on the FEC. It displays the parameter’s current values and allows control through Motif interactive synoptics editor and its corresponding driver program allow easy generation of synoptics displays and interaction through command panels.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S13MMI09
About •	Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992
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S20PD02	Summary of Panel Discussion on Standards and World-Wide Sharing of Software	597
	P.W. Lucas, C.I. Briegel Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA P.N. Clout VISTA, Los Alamos, NM, USA D.P. Gurd SSCL, Dallas, TX, USA N. Kanaya KEK, Ibaraki, Japan U. Raich CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
	It has been a dream in the accelerator community for some time that software developed for one control system be easily transferable to and usable at another. Until recently this goal was seldom realized in practice. This has been primarily because the various control systems have been developed inhouse with little standardization among them. The world of accelerators was dominated until a few years ago by very large machines constructed for doing high energy physics. The large laboratories could likewise afford large controls groups, which were able to build these complete systems from the ground up. However the accelerator scene has now shifted, with a large fraction of the new work being done at much smaller installations, installations which cannot afford the large staffs previously employed in control system production. Different approaches to this problem were outlined in the discussion.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S20PD02
About •	Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992
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Porting Linac Applieation Programs to a Windowing Environment

479

J.-M. Nonglaton, U. Raich
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland

We report our experience in porting Linac application programs written for CAMAC controlled hardware consoles to an X·Windows/Motif based workstation environment. Application programs acquire their parameter values from a front end computer (FEC), controlling the acceleration process, via a local area network. The timing for data acquisition and control is determined by the particle source timing. Two server programs on the FEC for repetitive acquisition and command-response mode will be described. The application programs on the workstations access a common parameter access server who establishes the necessary connection to the parameters on the FEC. It displays the parameter’s current values and allows control through Motif interactive synoptics editor and its corresponding driver program allow easy generation of synoptics displays and interaction through command panels.

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Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992

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S20PD02

Summary of Panel Discussion on Standards and World-Wide Sharing of Software

597

P.W. Lucas, C.I. Briegel
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
P.N. Clout
VISTA, Los Alamos, NM, USA
D.P. Gurd
SSCL, Dallas, TX, USA
N. Kanaya
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
U. Raich
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland

It has been a dream in the accelerator community for some time that software developed for one control system be easily transferable to and usable at another. Until recently this goal was seldom realized in practice. This has been primarily because the various control systems have been developed inhouse with little standardization among them. The world of accelerators was dominated until a few years ago by very large machines constructed for doing high energy physics. The large laboratories could likewise afford large controls groups, which were able to build these complete systems from the ground up. However the accelerator scene has now shifted, with a large fraction of the new work being done at much smaller installations, installations which cannot afford the large staffs previously employed in control system production. Different approaches to this problem were outlined in the discussion.

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reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S20PD02

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Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992

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