PANDA DCS

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PANDA DCS
Status of

• Dan Protopopescu
• Glasgow, UK

GSI, December 2007
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Status now

• We received expressions of membership from 6
  institutes (Bucharest, Frascati, Glasgow, GSI,
  Juelich and Warsaw)
• We established communication tools forum,
  mailing list, wiki (http//panda-wiki.gsi.de/cgi-b
  in/view/DCS/WebHome)
• We established contacts with
• - GSI controls group (Holger Brand) and
• - FAIR accelerator controls division (Ralph
  Baer)
• We need to fill the list of detector subgroups
  liaisons (see table on wiki)

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The DCS

• Is the cerebral cortex of the experiment
• First step is to adopt
• or design a consistent framework
• We must get more committed so please

• - designate manpower (stating the field of
  expertise)
• - read the DCS wiki and add information to it
• subscribe to the mailing list and forum
• let us start establishing the requirements for
  the DCS

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Many options
Tests of LabVIEW in conjuction with MonALISA
will be carried out in Glasgow next spring

• There are many options out there
• EPICS (Peters talk from last meeting)
• LabVIEW (Holgers talk)
• MonALISA (my proposal) - January workshop in
  Glasgow
• PVSS/UNICOS (see Udos talk) - maybe the best
  choice if we can share knowledge and manpower
• And it would be best to decide on a framework by
  the end on 2008

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Roundtable

• We will organize a 3-day roundtable in Glasgow
  where
• - MonALISA experts will be invited together with
  PANDA DCS and FAIR ACD members
• well investigate the feasibility of using
  MonALISA in conjunction with other systems or by
  itself
• Visit
• http//nuclear.gla.ac.uk/dcs-roundtable/
• for up-to-date information

Tentative dates 23-25 January 2008
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Todays programme

• There will be now two 205 minutes talks followed
  by an open discussion just before the coffee
  break
• Holger Brand LabVIEW for Large Detector Systems
• Udo Krause FAIR Accelerator Controls Strategy