ICALEPCS2021 - List of Authors (Zanzottera, S.)

Paper	Title	Page
THPV014	Adopting PyQt for Beam Instrumentation GUI Development at CERN	899
	S. Zanzottera, S. Jackson, S. Jensen CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	As Java GUI toolkits become deprecated, the Beam Instrumentation (BI)group at CERN has investigated alternatives and selected PyQt as one of the suitable technologies for future GUIs, in accordance with the paper presented at ICALEPCS19. This paper presents tools created, or adapted, to seamlessly integrate future PyQt GUI development alongside current Java oriented workflows and the controls environment. This includes (a) creating a project template and a GUI management tool to ease and standardize our development process, (b) rewriting our previously Java-centric Expert GUI Launcher to be language-agnostic and (c) porting a selection of operational GUIs from Java to PyQt, to test the feasibility of the development process and identify bottlenecks. To conclude, the challenges we anticipate for the BI GUI developer community in adopting this new technology are also discussed.
	Poster THPV014 [1.451 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV014
About •	Received ※ 10 October 2021 Accepted ※ 29 November 2021 Issue date ※ 23 February 2022
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THPV042	Evolution of the CERN Beam Instrumentation Offline Analysis Framework (OAF)	965
	A. Samantas, M. Gonzalez-Berges, J-J. Gras, S. Zanzottera CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The CERN accelerators require a large number of instruments, measuring different beam parameters like position, losses, current etc. The instruments’ associated electronics and software also produce information about their status. All these data are stored in a database for later analysis. The Beam Instrumentation group developed the Offline Analysis Framework some years ago to regularly and systematically analyze these data. The framework has been successfully used for nearly 100 different analyses that ran regularly by the end of the LHC run 2. Currently it is being updated for run 3 with modern and efficient tools to improve its usability and data analysis power. In particular, the architecture has been reviewed to have a modular design to facilitate the maintenance and the future evolution of the tool. A new web based application is being developed to facilitate the users’ access both to online configuration and to results. This paper will describe all these evolutions and outline possible lines of work for further improvements. * "A Framework for Off-Line Verification of Beam Instrumentation Systems at CERN", S. Jackson et al., ICALEPCS 2013 San Francisco
	Poster THPV042 [1.251 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV042
About •	Received ※ 09 October 2021 Revised ※ 14 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 November 2021 Issue date ※ 13 December 2021
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Adopting PyQt for Beam Instrumentation GUI Development at CERN

899

S. Zanzottera, S. Jackson, S. Jensen
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

As Java GUI toolkits become deprecated, the Beam Instrumentation (BI)group at CERN has investigated alternatives and selected PyQt as one of the suitable technologies for future GUIs, in accordance with the paper presented at ICALEPCS19. This paper presents tools created, or adapted, to seamlessly integrate future PyQt GUI development alongside current Java oriented workflows and the controls environment. This includes (a) creating a project template and a GUI management tool to ease and standardize our development process, (b) rewriting our previously Java-centric Expert GUI Launcher to be language-agnostic and (c) porting a selection of operational GUIs from Java to PyQt, to test the feasibility of the development process and identify bottlenecks. To conclude, the challenges we anticipate for the BI GUI developer community in adopting this new technology are also discussed.

Poster THPV014 [1.451 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV014

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Received ※ 10 October 2021 Accepted ※ 29 November 2021 Issue date ※ 23 February 2022

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THPV042

Evolution of the CERN Beam Instrumentation Offline Analysis Framework (OAF)

965

A. Samantas, M. Gonzalez-Berges, J-J. Gras, S. Zanzottera
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The CERN accelerators require a large number of instruments, measuring different beam parameters like position, losses, current etc. The instruments’ associated electronics and software also produce information about their status. All these data are stored in a database for later analysis. The Beam Instrumentation group developed the Offline Analysis Framework some years ago to regularly and systematically analyze these data. The framework has been successfully used for nearly 100 different analyses that ran regularly by the end of the LHC run 2. Currently it is being updated for run 3 with modern and efficient tools to improve its usability and data analysis power. In particular, the architecture has been reviewed to have a modular design to facilitate the maintenance and the future evolution of the tool. A new web based application is being developed to facilitate the users’ access both to online configuration and to results. This paper will describe all these evolutions and outline possible lines of work for further improvements.
* "A Framework for Off-Line Verification of Beam Instrumentation Systems at CERN", S. Jackson et al., ICALEPCS 2013 San Francisco

Poster THPV042 [1.251 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV042

About •

Received ※ 09 October 2021 Revised ※ 14 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 November 2021 Issue date ※ 13 December 2021

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