ICALEPCS2021 - Classification: Data Management

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WEBL01	FAIRmat - a Consortium of the German Research-Data Infrastructure (NFDI)	558
	H. Junkes, P. Oppermann, R. Schlögl, A. Trunschke FHI, Berlin, Germany M. Krieger, H. Weber FAU, Erlangen, Germany
	A sustainable infrastructure for provision, interlinkage, maintenance, and options for reuse of research data shall be created in Germany in the coming years. The consortium FAIRmat meets the interests of experimental and theoretical condensed-matter physics. This also includes, for example, chemical physics of solids, synthesis, and high-performance computing. All this is demonstrated by use cases from various areas of functional materials. The necessity of a FAIR data infrastructure in the FAIRmat* research field is very pressing. We need and want to support the actual, daily research work to further science. Besides storing, retrieving, and sharing data, a FAIR data infrastructure will also enable a completely new level of research. In the Area D "Digital Infrastructure" a Configurable Experiment Control System is to be developed here as a reference. EPICS was selected as an initial open source base system. The control system of the newly founded CATlab** in Berlin will be fully implemented according to the FAIRmat specifications. FAIRmat : https://www.fair-di.eu/fairmat/fairmat_/consortium CatLab : https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/projects/catlab/index_en.html
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About •	Received ※ 10 October 2021 Revised ※ 22 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 December 2021 Issue date ※ 08 March 2022
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WEBL02	Prototype of Image Acquisition and Storage System for SHINE	564
	H.H. Lv, D.P. Bai, X.M. Liu, H. Zhao SSRF, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
	Shanghai HIgh repetition rate XFEL aNd Extreme light facility (SHINE) is a quasi-continuous wave hard X-ray free electron laser facility, which is currently under construction. The image acquisition and storage system has been designed to handle a large quantity of image data generated by the beam and X-ray diagnostics system, the laser system, etc. A prototype system with Camera Link cameras has been developed to acquire and to reliably transport data at a throughput of 1000MB/sec. The image data are transferred through ZeroMQ protocol to the storage where the image data and the relevant metadata are archived and made available for user analysis. For high-speed frames of image data storage, optimized schema is identified by comparing and testing four schemas. The image data are written to HDF5 files and the metadata pertaining to the image are stored in NoSQL database. It could deliver up to 1.2GB/sec storage speed. The performances are also contrasted between a stand-alone server and the Lustre file system. And the Lustre could provide a better performance. Details of the image acquisition, transfer, and storage schemas will be described in the paper.
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WEBL03	Managing high-performance data flows and file structures
	J.M.C. Nilsson, T.S. Richter ESS, Copenhagen, Denmark J.R. Harper STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom M.D. Jones Tessella, Abingdon, United Kingdom
	The beam intensity at the European Spallation Source will necessitate a high performance acquisition and recording system for the data from the user experiments. In addition to high neutron counts rates the expected large number of dynamic measurements per day calls for a flexible system that supports a high variability in sample set-ups. Apache Kafka has been chosen as the central data switchboard to handle all the event driven data sources from detectors as well as from the EPICS controls system. The file writing system centres around a facility wide pool of HDF5 file-writers that uses Apache Kafka also for command and control. File-writing jobs are posted to a topic on Apache Kafka and picked up by individual workers. This centralises and optimises resources, as I/O load can be balanced between different neutron instruments. Command messages embed a NeXus compliant structure to capture the raw data in a community agreed format. To simplify correctly defining the file structure, physical device locations can the visualised. Data inspection can be applied to find available data sources and easily allocate them locations in the file.
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WEBL04	Manage the Physics Settings on the Modern Accelerator	569
	T. Zhang, K. Fukushima, T. Maruta, P.N. Ostroumov, A.S. Plastun, Q. Zhao FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
	Funding: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DESC0000661 The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University is a unique modern user facility composed of a large-scale superconducting linac capable of accelerating heavy-ion beams from oxygen to uranium. An advanced EPICS-based control system is being used to operate this complex facility. High-level physics applications (HLA) developed before and during the staged commissioning of the linac were one of the critical tools that resulted in achieving the commissioning goals quickly, within several shifts. Many of these HLAs are expandable to other EPCIS controlled accelerators. Recent developed HLAs deal with the management of extensive data to achieve the repetitive high performance of ion beams in the entire linac measured by non-destructive diagnostics instruments, and open the possibilities to explore the extra values out of the data. This paper presents our recent significant development and utilization of these HLAs. * T. Zhang et al. ’High-level Physics Controls Applications Development for FRIB’, ICALEPCS’19, TUCPR07, NY, USA, 2019.
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WEBL05	FAIR Meets EMIL: Principles in Practice	574
	G. Günther, M. Bär, N. Greve, R. Krahl, M. Kubin, O. Mannix, W. Smith, S. Vadilonga, R. Wilks HZB, Berlin, Germany
	Findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR) form a set of principles required to ready information for computational exploitation. The Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory Berlin (EMIL) at BESSY II, with its unique analytical instrumentation in direct combination with an industrially-relevant deposition tool, is in the final phase of commissioning. It provides an ideal testbed to ensure workflows are developed around the FAIR principles; enhancing usability for both human and machine agents. FAIR indicators are applied to assess compliance with the principles on an experimental workflow realized using Bluesky. Additional metadata collection by integrating an instrument PID, an electronic laboratory book, and a sample tracking system is considered along with staff training. Data are collected in Nexus format and made available in the ICAT repository. This paper reports on experiences, problems overcome, and areas still in need of improvement in future perspectives.
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About •	Received ※ 08 October 2021 Accepted ※ 22 December 2021 Issue date ※ 24 February 2022
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WEPV047	Supporting Flexible Runtime Control and Storage Ring Operation with the FAIR Settings Management System	768
	R. Mueller, J. Fitzek, H.C. Hüther, H. Liebermann, D. Ondreka, A. Schaller, A. Walter GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
	The FAIR Settings Management system has now been used productively for the GSI accelerator facility operating synchrotrons, storage rings, and transfer lines. The system’s core is being developed in a collaboration with CERN, and is based on CERN’s LHC Software Architecture (LSA) framework. At GSI, 2018 was dedicated to integrating the Beam Scheduling System BSS. Major implementations for storage rings were performed in 2019, while 2020 the main focus was on optimizing the performance of the overall control system. Integrating with the BSS allows us to configure the beam execution directly from the settings management system. Defining signals and conditions enables us to control the runtime behavior of the machine. The storage ring mode supports flexible operation with features allowing to pause the machine and execute in-cycle modifications, using concepts like breakpoints, repetitions, skipping, and manipulation. After providing these major new features and their successful productive use, the focus was shifted on optimizing their performance. The performance was analyzed and improved based on real-word scenarios defined by operations and machine experts.
	Poster WEPV047 [0.692 MB]
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About •	Received ※ 09 October 2021 Accepted ※ 23 November 2021 Issue date ※ 22 December 2021
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WEPV048	An Archiver Appliance Performance and Resources Consumption Study	774
	R.N. Fernandes, S. Armanet, H. Kocevar, S. Regnell ESS, Lund, Sweden
	At the European Spallation Source (ESS), 1.6 million signals are expected to be generated by a (distributed) control layer composed of around 1500 EPICS IOCs. A substantial amount of these signals - i.e. PVs - will be stored by the Archiving Service, a service that is currently under development at the Integrated Control System (ICS) Division. From a technical point of view, the Archiving Service is implemented using a software application called the Archiver Appliance. This application, originally developed at SLAC, records PVs as a function of time and stores these in its persistent layer. A study based on multiple simulation scenarios that model ESS (future) modus operandi has been conducted by ICS to understand how the Archiver Appliance performs and consumes resources (e.g. RAM) under disparate workloads. This paper presents: 1) The simulation scenarios; 2) The tools used to collect and interpret the results; 3) The storage study; 4) The retrieval study; 5) The resources saturation study; 6) Conclusions based on the interpretation of the results.
	Poster WEPV048 [0.487 MB]
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WEPV049	Controls Data Archiving at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source for In-Depth Analysis and ML Applications	780
	I.D. Finch, G.D. Howells, A.A. Saoulis STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
	Funding: UKRI / STFC The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source accelerators are currently operated using Vsystem control software. Archiving of controls data is necessary for immediate fault finding, to facilitate analysis of long-term trends, and to provide training datasets for machine learning applications. While Vsystem has built-in logging and data archiving tools, in recent years we have greatly expanded the range and quantity of data archived using an open-source software stack including MQTT as a messaging system, Telegraf as a metrics collection agent, and the Influx time-series database as a storage backend. Now that ISIS has begun the transition from Vsystem to EPICS this software stack will need to be replaced or adapted. To explore the practicality of adaptation, a new Telegraf plugin allowing direct collection of EPICS data has been developed. We describe the current Vsystem-based controls data archiving solution in use at ISIS, future plans for EPICS, and our plans for the transition while maintaining continuity of data.
	Poster WEPV049 [0.845 MB]
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About •	Received ※ 09 October 2021 Revised ※ 19 October 2021 Accepted ※ 22 December 2021 Issue date ※ 19 January 2022
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WEPV050	Containerised Control Systems Development at Isis and Potential Use in an Epics System
	G.D. Howells, I.D. Finch STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
	Funding: UKRI / STFC Control system developers at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source have been using Docker container technology as an efficient means to trial and develop interconnected software systems. We outline how the group has been able to use pre-existing container images in the traditional style for recording system metrics (e.g., TIG stack) and other telemetry. Furthermore, with the ISIS control system migrating from Vsystem to EPICS, we report how core components of these systems have been built and used within containers. We finally discuss whether such container technology could be used to implement the end goal of a full EPICS control system, or whether it is best suited to exploratory investigations.
	Poster WEPV050 [1.402 MB]
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FAIRmat - a Consortium of the German Research-Data Infrastructure (NFDI)

558

H. Junkes, P. Oppermann, R. Schlögl, A. Trunschke
FHI, Berlin, Germany
M. Krieger, H. Weber
FAU, Erlangen, Germany

A sustainable infrastructure for provision, interlinkage, maintenance, and options for reuse of research data shall be created in Germany in the coming years. The consortium FAIRmat meets the interests of experimental and theoretical condensed-matter physics. This also includes, for example, chemical physics of solids, synthesis, and high-performance computing. All this is demonstrated by use cases from various areas of functional materials. The necessity of a FAIR data infrastructure in the FAIRmat* research field is very pressing. We need and want to support the actual, daily research work to further science. Besides storing, retrieving, and sharing data, a FAIR data infrastructure will also enable a completely new level of research. In the Area D "Digital Infrastructure" a Configurable Experiment Control System is to be developed here as a reference. EPICS was selected as an initial open source base system. The control system of the newly founded CATlab** in Berlin will be fully implemented according to the FAIRmat specifications.
FAIRmat : https://www.fair-di.eu/fairmat/fairmat_/consortium
CatLab : https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/projects/catlab/index_en.html

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Received ※ 10 October 2021 Revised ※ 22 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 December 2021 Issue date ※ 08 March 2022

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WEBL02

Prototype of Image Acquisition and Storage System for SHINE

564

H.H. Lv, D.P. Bai, X.M. Liu, H. Zhao
SSRF, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Shanghai HIgh repetition rate XFEL aNd Extreme light facility (SHINE) is a quasi-continuous wave hard X-ray free electron laser facility, which is currently under construction. The image acquisition and storage system has been designed to handle a large quantity of image data generated by the beam and X-ray diagnostics system, the laser system, etc. A prototype system with Camera Link cameras has been developed to acquire and to reliably transport data at a throughput of 1000MB/sec. The image data are transferred through ZeroMQ protocol to the storage where the image data and the relevant metadata are archived and made available for user analysis. For high-speed frames of image data storage, optimized schema is identified by comparing and testing four schemas. The image data are written to HDF5 files and the metadata pertaining to the image are stored in NoSQL database. It could deliver up to 1.2GB/sec storage speed. The performances are also contrasted between a stand-alone server and the Lustre file system. And the Lustre could provide a better performance. Details of the image acquisition, transfer, and storage schemas will be described in the paper.

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WEBL03

Managing high-performance data flows and file structures

J.M.C. Nilsson, T.S. Richter
ESS, Copenhagen, Denmark
J.R. Harper
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
M.D. Jones
Tessella, Abingdon, United Kingdom

The beam intensity at the European Spallation Source will necessitate a high performance acquisition and recording system for the data from the user experiments. In addition to high neutron counts rates the expected large number of dynamic measurements per day calls for a flexible system that supports a high variability in sample set-ups. Apache Kafka has been chosen as the central data switchboard to handle all the event driven data sources from detectors as well as from the EPICS controls system. The file writing system centres around a facility wide pool of HDF5 file-writers that uses Apache Kafka also for command and control. File-writing jobs are posted to a topic on Apache Kafka and picked up by individual workers. This centralises and optimises resources, as I/O load can be balanced between different neutron instruments. Command messages embed a NeXus compliant structure to capture the raw data in a community agreed format. To simplify correctly defining the file structure, physical device locations can the visualised. Data inspection can be applied to find available data sources and easily allocate them locations in the file.

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WEBL04

Manage the Physics Settings on the Modern Accelerator

569

T. Zhang, K. Fukushima, T. Maruta, P.N. Ostroumov, A.S. Plastun, Q. Zhao
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Funding: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DESC0000661
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University is a unique modern user facility composed of a large-scale superconducting linac capable of accelerating heavy-ion beams from oxygen to uranium. An advanced EPICS-based control system is being used to operate this complex facility. High-level physics applications (HLA) developed before and during the staged commissioning of the linac were one of the critical tools that resulted in achieving the commissioning goals quickly, within several shifts. Many of these HLAs are expandable to other EPCIS controlled accelerators. Recent developed HLAs deal with the management of extensive data to achieve the repetitive high performance of ion beams in the entire linac measured by non-destructive diagnostics instruments, and open the possibilities to explore the extra values out of the data. This paper presents our recent significant development and utilization of these HLAs.
* T. Zhang et al. ’High-level Physics Controls Applications Development for FRIB’, ICALEPCS’19, TUCPR07, NY, USA, 2019.

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Received ※ 19 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 November 2021 Issue date ※ 02 January 2022

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WEBL05

FAIR Meets EMIL: Principles in Practice

574

G. Günther, M. Bär, N. Greve, R. Krahl, M. Kubin, O. Mannix, W. Smith, S. Vadilonga, R. Wilks
HZB, Berlin, Germany

Findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR) form a set of principles required to ready information for computational exploitation. The Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory Berlin (EMIL) at BESSY II, with its unique analytical instrumentation in direct combination with an industrially-relevant deposition tool, is in the final phase of commissioning. It provides an ideal testbed to ensure workflows are developed around the FAIR principles; enhancing usability for both human and machine agents. FAIR indicators are applied to assess compliance with the principles on an experimental workflow realized using Bluesky. Additional metadata collection by integrating an instrument PID, an electronic laboratory book, and a sample tracking system is considered along with staff training. Data are collected in Nexus format and made available in the ICAT repository. This paper reports on experiences, problems overcome, and areas still in need of improvement in future perspectives.

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WEPV047

Supporting Flexible Runtime Control and Storage Ring Operation with the FAIR Settings Management System

768

R. Mueller, J. Fitzek, H.C. Hüther, H. Liebermann, D. Ondreka, A. Schaller, A. Walter
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

The FAIR Settings Management system has now been used productively for the GSI accelerator facility operating synchrotrons, storage rings, and transfer lines. The system’s core is being developed in a collaboration with CERN, and is based on CERN’s LHC Software Architecture (LSA) framework. At GSI, 2018 was dedicated to integrating the Beam Scheduling System BSS. Major implementations for storage rings were performed in 2019, while 2020 the main focus was on optimizing the performance of the overall control system. Integrating with the BSS allows us to configure the beam execution directly from the settings management system. Defining signals and conditions enables us to control the runtime behavior of the machine. The storage ring mode supports flexible operation with features allowing to pause the machine and execute in-cycle modifications, using concepts like breakpoints, repetitions, skipping, and manipulation. After providing these major new features and their successful productive use, the focus was shifted on optimizing their performance. The performance was analyzed and improved based on real-word scenarios defined by operations and machine experts.

Poster WEPV047 [0.692 MB]

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Received ※ 09 October 2021 Accepted ※ 23 November 2021 Issue date ※ 22 December 2021

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WEPV048

An Archiver Appliance Performance and Resources Consumption Study

774

R.N. Fernandes, S. Armanet, H. Kocevar, S. Regnell
ESS, Lund, Sweden

At the European Spallation Source (ESS), 1.6 million signals are expected to be generated by a (distributed) control layer composed of around 1500 EPICS IOCs. A substantial amount of these signals - i.e. PVs - will be stored by the Archiving Service, a service that is currently under development at the Integrated Control System (ICS) Division. From a technical point of view, the Archiving Service is implemented using a software application called the Archiver Appliance. This application, originally developed at SLAC, records PVs as a function of time and stores these in its persistent layer. A study based on multiple simulation scenarios that model ESS (future) modus operandi has been conducted by ICS to understand how the Archiver Appliance performs and consumes resources (e.g. RAM) under disparate workloads. This paper presents: 1) The simulation scenarios; 2) The tools used to collect and interpret the results; 3) The storage study; 4) The retrieval study; 5) The resources saturation study; 6) Conclusions based on the interpretation of the results.

Poster WEPV048 [0.487 MB]

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WEPV049

Controls Data Archiving at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source for In-Depth Analysis and ML Applications

780

I.D. Finch, G.D. Howells, A.A. Saoulis
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom

Funding: UKRI / STFC
The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source accelerators are currently operated using Vsystem control software. Archiving of controls data is necessary for immediate fault finding, to facilitate analysis of long-term trends, and to provide training datasets for machine learning applications. While Vsystem has built-in logging and data archiving tools, in recent years we have greatly expanded the range and quantity of data archived using an open-source software stack including MQTT as a messaging system, Telegraf as a metrics collection agent, and the Influx time-series database as a storage backend. Now that ISIS has begun the transition from Vsystem to EPICS this software stack will need to be replaced or adapted. To explore the practicality of adaptation, a new Telegraf plugin allowing direct collection of EPICS data has been developed. We describe the current Vsystem-based controls data archiving solution in use at ISIS, future plans for EPICS, and our plans for the transition while maintaining continuity of data.

Poster WEPV049 [0.845 MB]

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WEPV050

Containerised Control Systems Development at Isis and Potential Use in an Epics System

G.D. Howells, I.D. Finch
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom

Funding: UKRI / STFC
Control system developers at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source have been using Docker container technology as an efficient means to trial and develop interconnected software systems. We outline how the group has been able to use pre-existing container images in the traditional style for recording system metrics (e.g., TIG stack) and other telemetry. Furthermore, with the ISIS control system migrating from Vsystem to EPICS, we report how core components of these systems have been built and used within containers. We finally discuss whether such container technology could be used to implement the end goal of a full EPICS control system, or whether it is best suited to exploratory investigations.

Poster WEPV050 [1.402 MB]

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