Update onCSS at SNS

Xihui Chen, Kay Kasemir

June 2010

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Data Browser Update

Similar Look, New Code

• Same plot code as in BOY

• More interactive pan, zoom

• Full ‘undo’, ‘redo’

• Flexible annotations

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Faster# Access to Oracle Archive1) Search with simple

pattern (‘*’, ‘?’) almost instantaneous

2) Data readout via stored procedure determines min/max/average inside Oracle

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20 minutes down to 3!

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SNS Alarm System “BEAST”

Works very well for us

• Alarm Server running for 4 month w/o issues

• Operators handle config. changes

• Adding instance for secondary control room

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BOY – Operator Display

• SNS still primarily on EDM

• BOY used for specialdisplays

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BOY…

• Operators start to create top-level displays

Tim Southern, Nick Luciano

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Example: “Steering” Tool

Try to get spot into the green, at least into orange

Tim Southern, Nick Luciano

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Tweak, compare, Maybe revert

Tim Southern, Nick Luciano

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BOY Updates• New widgets: Radio Box, Choice Button• ScriptUtil to simplify script programming• Supports open OPIs from URL (http://, ftp://) gets “current” displays

into offices • Allow Elog or Email screen• Support key operation on slider and scrollbar widgets• …

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CSS @ SNS Summary

• Alarm System: stable and useful

• RDB Archive: s. & u., but could be faster

• BOY: No rush to replace EDM, but rapid acceptance

• SNS CSS: online updates since June

• Planning:– Continuous integration– Nightly builds– Distributed repository with

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