ICALEPCS2021 - List of Authors (Roderick, C.)

Paper	Title	Page
TUPV047	Controlling the CERN Experimental Area Beams	509
	B. Rae, V. Baggiolini, D. Banerjee, J. Bernhard, M. Brugger, N. Charitonidis, M. Gabriel, A. Gerbershagen, R. Gorbonosov, M. Hrabia, M. Peryt, C. Roderick, G. Romagnoli CERN, Geneva, Switzerland L. Gatignon Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
	The CERN fixed target experimental areas are comprised of more than 8km of beam line with around 800 devices used to control and measure the beam. Each year more than 140 groups of users come to perform experiments in these areas, with a need to access the data from these devices. The software to allow this therefore has to be simple, robust, and be able to control and read out all types of beam devices. This contribution describes the functionality of the beamline control system, CESAR, and its evolution. This includes all the features that can be used by the beamline physicists, operators, and device experts that work in the experimental areas. It also underlines the flexibility that the software provides to the experimental users for control of their beam line during data taking, allowing them to manage this in a very easy and independent way. This contribution also covers the on-going work of providing MAD-X support to CESAR to achieve an easier way of developing and integrating beam optics. An overview of the on-going software migration of the Experimental Areas is also given.
	Poster TUPV047 [1.262 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-TUPV047
About •	Received ※ 11 October 2021 Revised ※ 21 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 December 2021 Issue date ※ 18 January 2022
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THPV013	WRAP - A Web-Based Rapid Application Development Framework for CERN’s Controls Infrastructure	894
	E. Galatas, A. Asko, E. Matli, C. Roderick CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	To ensure stable operation of CERN’s accelerator complex, many Devices need to be controlled. To meet this need, over 500 custom Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) have been developed using Java Swing, Java FX, NetBeans, Eclipse SWT, etc. These represent a high maintenance cost, particularly considering the global evolution of the GUI technology landscape. The new Web-based Rapid Application Platform (WRAP) provides a centralized, zero-code, drag-n-drop means of GUI creation. It aims to replace a significant percentage of existing GUIs and ease new developments. Integration with the Controls Configuration Service (CCS) provides rich infrastructure metadata to support application configuration, whilst following the associated equipment lifecycle (e.g. renames, upgrades, dismantling). Leveraging the CERN Accelerator Logging Service (NXCALS) and the Unified Controls Acquisition and Processing (UCAP) platform, allows WRAP users to respectively, create GUIs showing historical data, and interface with complex data-stream processing. The plugin architecture will allow teams to further extend the tool as needed. This paper describes the WRAP architecture, design, status, and outlook.
	Poster THPV013 [1.564 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV013
About •	Received ※ 09 October 2021 Revised ※ 25 October 2021 Accepted ※ 10 December 2021 Issue date ※ 28 February 2022
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Paper

Title

Page

Controlling the CERN Experimental Area Beams

509

B. Rae, V. Baggiolini, D. Banerjee, J. Bernhard, M. Brugger, N. Charitonidis, M. Gabriel, A. Gerbershagen, R. Gorbonosov, M. Hrabia, M. Peryt, C. Roderick, G. Romagnoli
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
L. Gatignon
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

The CERN fixed target experimental areas are comprised of more than 8km of beam line with around 800 devices used to control and measure the beam. Each year more than 140 groups of users come to perform experiments in these areas, with a need to access the data from these devices. The software to allow this therefore has to be simple, robust, and be able to control and read out all types of beam devices. This contribution describes the functionality of the beamline control system, CESAR, and its evolution. This includes all the features that can be used by the beamline physicists, operators, and device experts that work in the experimental areas. It also underlines the flexibility that the software provides to the experimental users for control of their beam line during data taking, allowing them to manage this in a very easy and independent way. This contribution also covers the on-going work of providing MAD-X support to CESAR to achieve an easier way of developing and integrating beam optics. An overview of the on-going software migration of the Experimental Areas is also given.

Poster TUPV047 [1.262 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-TUPV047

About •

Received ※ 11 October 2021 Revised ※ 21 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 December 2021 Issue date ※ 18 January 2022

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reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)

THPV013

WRAP - A Web-Based Rapid Application Development Framework for CERN’s Controls Infrastructure

894

E. Galatas, A. Asko, E. Matli, C. Roderick
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

To ensure stable operation of CERN’s accelerator complex, many Devices need to be controlled. To meet this need, over 500 custom Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) have been developed using Java Swing, Java FX, NetBeans, Eclipse SWT, etc. These represent a high maintenance cost, particularly considering the global evolution of the GUI technology landscape. The new Web-based Rapid Application Platform (WRAP) provides a centralized, zero-code, drag-n-drop means of GUI creation. It aims to replace a significant percentage of existing GUIs and ease new developments. Integration with the Controls Configuration Service (CCS) provides rich infrastructure metadata to support application configuration, whilst following the associated equipment lifecycle (e.g. renames, upgrades, dismantling). Leveraging the CERN Accelerator Logging Service (NXCALS) and the Unified Controls Acquisition and Processing (UCAP) platform, allows WRAP users to respectively, create GUIs showing historical data, and interface with complex data-stream processing. The plugin architecture will allow teams to further extend the tool as needed. This paper describes the WRAP architecture, design, status, and outlook.

Poster THPV013 [1.564 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV013

About •

Received ※ 09 October 2021 Revised ※ 25 October 2021 Accepted ※ 10 December 2021 Issue date ※ 28 February 2022

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reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)