Tango-Controls meetings ASTRON

15 Nov 2022, 18:00 → 17 Nov 2022, 18:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Marconi (ASTRON and Online)

Jan David Mol (ASTRON), Arno Schoenmakers (ASTRON)

We invite you to join the 2nd Tango SIG meeting, held hybrid at ASTRON in Dwingeloo, The Netherlands, as well as in Zoom. The conference is free to attend, but we kindly that you register, especially if you visit in person.

 

The theme for this second meeting is Archiving and HDB++. The workshop consists of 1.5 days (Wednesday and Thursday morning) and will focus on:

• Show & tell: practical demonstrations of people's recent work, and the exchange of ideas that follows.
• Discussing the state of affairs and help shape the future of Archiving and HDB++.

 

We expect that these sessions allow us to really learn from each other what is possible, how others deal with specific issues, and what future directions seem best to serve our practical needs.

 

There is a possibility of joining a field trip to the LOFAR Core. If you want to join this field trip please select yes in the registration form. Most likely this will happen in the afternoon of Thursday, Nov 17th, so make sure your travel plans allow for this. And take appropriate clothing, as the LOFAR core is in a nature area.

Tuesday 15 November

18:00 Dinner (informal)

A get-together for our guests who have already arrived.

Wednesday 16 November

09:00 Meet and greet

Reception of guests, and preparing ourselves for the workshop.

1 [Demo] Tango Archiving in LOFAR2.0

LOFAR2.0 is developing its archiving solution both on HDB++, using TimescaleDB and on Prometheus, for different use cases.

We will show our setup, and discuss the pros and cons of each in our use case.

Speaker: Jan David Mol (ASTRON)

2 [Demo] HDB @ ESRF

Speaker: Reynald Bourtembourg (ESRF)

11:30 Coffee break

3 [Demo] Integration of HDB++ and Alarming at Elettra

Speaker: Graziano Scalamera (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

hdb++_alarm_handler_demo.pdf

12:15 Lunch

A lunch provided by ASTRON.

Discussions: HDB++ Progress Meeting

Abstraction layer for HDB++ (TangoDB proposal may be useful)

Miro Board

14:15 Coffee break

4 [Discussion] Timescale: Licensing & Features

A discussion about Timescale license, the interesting features of recent Timescale versions, and the possible applications these new features offer for HDB.

Discussions: HDB++ Hot Topics

Abstraction layer for HDB++ (TangoDB proposal may be useful)

Miro Board

16:15 Coffee break

Discussions: Shaping the future of Tango Controls (continued)

Abstraction layer for HDB++ (TangoDB proposal may be useful)

Miro Board

18:00 Social dinner

Thursday 17 November

09:00 Walk in

A coffee, and to get started.

5 [Demo] Use of HDB++ at LOFAR

Speaker: Stefano Di Frischia (INAF)

6 [Demo] Archiving at ALBA: Snapshotting and more

Discussions: Future of Tango Archiving

Abstraction layer for HDB++ (TangoDB proposal may be useful)

Miro Board

7 Topic & timeline for the next SIG

When/where the 3rd Tango SIG will be held, or how we are going to decide on that.

A proposal that came up was "Tango Controls IDL v6", to discuss what should be in there and make an initial version (rc) for the IDL v6 file. The IDL v6 could support proposed functionality such as N-dimensional arrays, ALARM events, etc.

8 Closing remarks

12:00 Lunch

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