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| MOCPR01 | Graduate Software Engineer Development Program at Diamond Light Source | 97 |
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| Diamond Light Source is the UK’s synchrotron facility. The support and development of the beamlines and accelerators at Diamond requires a significant quantity of specific knowledge and skills; the opportunity to acquire these beforehand is not available to many early in their career. This limits the field of candidates who can begin working independently at the level of software systems engineer. The graduate software engineer development program was started in 2015 to provide a route for engineers who are recent graduates or new to the field to develop the required skills and experience. Over the course of two years it comprises a series of projects in different groups, mentored on-the-job training and organized training courses. The program has recently been expanded to cover all groups in the Scientific Software, Controls and Computation department at Diamond, with an intake of four new engineers per year. This paper presents the structure and development of the program and invites discussion with other organizations to share knowledge and experience. | ||
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOCPR01 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 01 October 2019 paper accepted ※ 19 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020 | |
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| MOPHA017 | pyAT, Pytac and pythonSoftIoc: a Pure Python Virtual Accelerator | 232 |
| MOPHA016 | use link to see paper's listing under its alternate paper code | |
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Virtual accelerators are used for testing control system software against realistic accelerator simulations. Previous virtual accelerators for synchrotron light sources have used Tracy* ** and Elegant*** **** as the simulator, but without Python bindings for accelerator simulations it has been difficult to create a virtual accelerator using Python. With the development of Python Accelerator Toolbox (pyAT)*****, that is now possible. This paper describes the combination of pyAT, Python Toolkit for Accelerator Controls (Pytac) and pythonSoftIoc to create an EPICS-based virtual accelerator for Diamond Light Source.
*TRACY-2 Documentation **The DLS Control System ***elegant: A Code for Accelerator Simulation ****A Virtual Accelerator in the Tango Control System *****pyAT: Python Accelerator Toolbox |
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Poster MOPHA017 [1.006 MB] | |
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOPHA017 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 30 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 08 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020 | |
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| WEBPP04 | P99: An Optical Beamline for Offline Technique Development and Systems Integration for Prototype Beamline Instrumentation | 898 |
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| Diamond Light Source is a publicly funded 3rd generation national synchrotron which will soon operate 39 state-of-the-art instruments covering a wide range of physical and life science applications. Realization of such instruments poses many challenges from initial scientific concept, to final user experience. To get best efficiency, Diamond operates a modular approach for engineering and software systems support, usually with custom hardware or software component coming together on the final instrument in-situ. To facilitate cross-group collaboration, prototyping, integrated development and testing of the full instrument including scientific case before the final implementation, an optical prototyping setup has been developed which has an identical backend to real beamline instruments. We present detail of the software and hardware components of this environment and how these have been used to develop functionality for the new operational instruments. We present several high impact examples of such integrated prototyping development including the instrumentation for DIAD (integrated Dual Imaging And Diffraction) and the J08 beamline for: soft X-ray ptychography end-station. | ||
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Slides WEBPP04 [10.428 MB] | |
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEBPP04 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 01 October 2019 paper accepted ※ 21 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020 | |
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