Attendees: Ken Lauer Vinod Gopalan Barry Fishler Alex Wallace Peregrine McGehee Zachary L Lentz Mitchell Cabral
LLNL Requirements:
- Setpoint tool shall be able to write to multiple devices store various configurations of these values.
- The RRL devices shall have the ability to move through multiple configurations throughout the entire shot cycle, but does not require reconfiguration when shots are being taken.
- The tool shall provide the operator to check configurations on-demand.
- There is no need for an atomic system as the time requirement to reach set configurations are in the hours range.
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- SLAC-developed tool for testing that can be used to verify and check configurations.
- Moving towards setting configurations as well.
- Configuration control has not been planned yet.
- ATEF is a work in progress and is not complete yet. SLAC will provide existing presentation(s) on it to give a high-level description on what we plan to use it for/it's planned capabilities. Robert S. Tang-Kong
Goals:
- Have device-level configuration and management pattern for all of MECU.
- Find where we want to store configurations.
- LLNL needs a very convenient means to verify configurations before firing.
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- How are other large-scale EPICS systems managing this problem? The challenge being configuration management.
- Device-obstruction layer that sat on the client layer.
- SLAC can reach out to other teams to see how they are running this. SLAC's AD division is doing something similar (BEASTSCORE). Ken Lauer
- Will also check out other facilities.
Action items:
- Robert S. Tang-Kong Accumulate existing ATEF presentations and documentation so we can share with LLNL and LLE.
- Ken Lauer Check in with other facilities using EPICS on how they manage configurations. AD may be doing things we're interested in.
- Mitchell Cabral Set up WG pt.2. Include LLE.
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