Cedar 7 New Fields and Workflow Capability and Mail Harvest

We’re rolling out a few changes to Cedar 7 installations this month. Some are behind the scenes improvements to MailHarvest and file attachment listings.

However, some changes will be a little more obvious:

Paper: Alarm Management Deployments - Lessons Learned

Alarm management systems promise to improve situational awareness, aid operational staff in responding to upsets and reduce downtime. Many control rooms, including accelerator control rooms have been challenged in achieving this goal.

ScienceStudio - Leasons Learned

ScienceStudio was a project that I had the pleasure to manage.  Like all great projects it comes down to buildings the correct team.  Our managment team consisted of three people Stewart McIntyre who was not only the user champion but drove the direction of the entire program and  Mike Bauer who was the PI on the subsequent project called ANISE run out of SharcNet.  Our friends at Canarie, Industry Canada, the Canadian Light Source and IBM who funded the project.

PCaPAC 2010 Saskatoon

PCaPAC 2010 was held in Saskatoon brining together experts in the design and development of accelerator and nuclear physics software from the Americas, Europe and Asia.  Conferance host was the Canadian Light Source and the Conferance Chairperson was Elder Matias.

Paper: CLS A Fully Open Source Control System

Elder Matias presented at 2005 Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee

The Canadian Light Source has adopted the use of IEC 61508 [1] SIL 3 certified equipment and associated methods in the development of safety critical software. This paper examines the successful application of industrial safety rated PLC equipment in the development of accelerator and beamline safety systems. Of specific note is the application of this technology to a biomedical beamline at the CLS.