As you can see from the programme below the days will be
quite intense and we expect to have 3 full days.
First day: Goals and scope
1. Discuss goals and scope for the LMC workshop : (45 min) (Chair: R. Smareglia)
- Standard LMC protocol and common communication infrastructure
- Other M&C related technologies and tools, to be used within Elements for M&C, like:
- general M&C design aspects and architectural solutions
- standard GUI technologies, offered by frameworks and others ?
- common LMC simulation framework ?
- General technologies and tools? Should standardisation include:
- general software system "infrastructure" like OS, virtualization, deployment environment and supporting tools/processes, development environment and supporting tools/processes, and others
- discussing standardisation possibilities for other common technologies and tools (see Day 3 point 2)
2. Presentation by TM on LMC interfaces and M&C architecture (45 min) (S. Chaudhuri)
- Overview of TM M&C Architecture (TELMGT)
- Overview of SKA LMC interfaces
- Common M&C related issues
3. Presentation by each Element LMC (CSP, SDP, LFAA, SADT, DISH, INFRA SA&AUS, AIV, TM, AADC) (10 x 30 min = 5.0 hr) (Element LMC Lead or delegated representative)
(A guideline for the items to be included can be found below at the bottom of this Programme.)
- on requirements and current ideas and investigations related to:
- See section 2 below for suggested content for now
4. Discussion time (±1 hr, if required) (Chair: R. Smareglia)
- Summary of and comments on what we heard so far
Second day - Morning: Criteria and roadmap definition 1/2
1. Agree scope of LMC standardisation: (1 hr) (Chair: S. Vircic)
- Short presentation on summary of Day 1
- Facilitated discussion to agree scope
2. Wrap up open observations on LMC selection criteria document (1.5 hr) (Chair: L. van der Heever)
(The preliminary list of the criteria will be prepared by the TM Consortium and published for review before the meeting, around 2015/02/15. Observations not resolved before the workshop will be discussed in this timeslot.)
3. Define the process to: (1.5 hr) (Chair: S. Chaudhuri)
- Short leading presentation
- Discussion on:
- finalising options to be evaluated
- finalising the evaluation criteria
- evaluating the options
- selecting common LMC framework
Third day: Criteria and roadmap definition 2/2
4. Identify resources : (30 min) (Chair: M. Dolci)
- TM leads activity, but all interested parties are invited to contribute to this effort
- Identify specific names from Elements
5. Define schedule: (1 hr) (Chair: L. van der Heever)
- Schedule for LMC common framework
- finalised list of options by __
- finalised evaluation criteria by __
- options evaluated and selection identified by __
- report produced by __
- Schedule for M&C architecture solutions
Second and Third day: Timeboxed presentations and discussions
1. Open-source frameworks and frameworks used in the precursors / pathfinders and other arrays: (4.5 hrs) (Chair: TBD)
including standard protocols, communications framework, GUI technologies provided.
( A guidelines for the Framework Presentations can be found below at the bottom of this programme.)
Open source Framework (day 2):
- EPICS (1 hr) (invited expert) (day 2)
- TANGO (1 hr) (invited expert) (day 2)
- ACS and ALMA (1 hr) (invited expert) (day 2)
Precursor (day 3):
- KATCP (as used by MeerKAT) (45 min) (Lize vd Heever) (day 3)
- ASKAP & ITER (based on EPICS) (45 min) (JC Guzman + Subhro Chaudhuri) (day 3)
2. Other potential common technologies for general purpose, simulation, user interfaces, etc (±1 hr - if time allows): (Chair: J.C. Gutzman)
For example:
- Cloud computing and cluster monitoring (e.g. Open Stack)
- Virtualization and Deployment
- Standardised O/S
- Standardised development environment and tools (e.g. using GIT)
- Standardised hardware (servers and actual sensors)
- Web-based UI development frameworks
- ...
3. Wrap-up (1 hr) (Chair: R. Smareglia)
- Short presentation on outcomes of workshop and summary of way forward
Guideline for Element LMC Presentations (Day 1)
TM Consortium invites each Element LMC Lead to prepare a 30 min presentation covering the following:
- Element architecture and proposed M&C designs and architectural solutions,
- Requirements and issues related to monitor and control within each Element,
- Assumptions made so far,
- Technologies considered, investigated and/or used (in the case where a working prototype already exists),
- Plans for prototyping, state of existing prototypes,
- Short list of prefered LMC common frameworks to be evaluated,
- Scope of LMC standardisation expected / required / preferred (protocols and communications middleware; but what about GUI frameworks, M&C design approaches and architectural solutions, supporting tools and computing platforms, development environments, etc).
Guideline for Framework Presentations (Day 2-3)
- Overview of framework
- Development roadmap for framework
- Pros/cons
- Examples where used and experiences from projects
