27–29 Oct 2020
Europe/Rome timezone

ALMA Common Software (ACS) - Introduction and status

29 Oct 2020, 09:00
30m

Speaker

Gianluca Chiozzi (ESO)

Description

ACS is an open source project providing the infrastructure for the software of the
Atacama Large Millimeter Array and several other projects.
ACS provides a framework for the development of distributed systems based
on the Component/Container paradigm and a set of basic serviceslike:
• Transparent remote object invocation,• Publisher/subscriber paradigm
• System deployment/administration and object location
• Distributed error and alarm handling,
• Distributed logging,
• Configuration database,
In this presentation I will give an overview of ACS: basic concepts, history, status of collaboration and adoption, future perspectives, lessons learned.

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