25–27 Mar 2015
Europe/Rome timezone

Scientific Programme


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