Tango 2020 November status update meeting (online)

Session

tutorials

18 Nov 2020, 09:00

920 0515 0326 (zoom meeting)

Conveners

tutorials

• Sergi Rubio Manrique (ALBA Synchotron)

20. Benchmark Saga

Igor Khokhriakov (hzg)

18/11/2020, 09:00

Deep analysis of the results of Tango benchmark based on tango-controls/sys-tango-benchmark presented @ICALEPCS'19 Benchmarking of Tango based on CORBA, ZMQ and HTTP Benchmarking of microservices distributed solution for Tango REST server Introducing RxJTango - a reactive extension to Tango-Controls Java API

21. Hunting mystery timeout

Igor Khokhriakov (hzg)

18/11/2020, 09:20

A story how legendary random timeout (4 years old issue on GitHub - migrated from Sourceforge - https://github.com/tango-controls/JTango/issues/19) was hunted down.

27. CI-CD practices at SKA

Dr Matteo Di Carlo (INAF)

18/11/2020, 09:40

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build two radio interferometers in South Africa and Australia to form one Observatory monitored and controlled from the global headquarters (GHQ) based in the United Kingdom at Jodrell Bank. The project is now approaching the end of its design phase and gearing up for the beginning of formal construction. The period between...

19. Unit testing Tango devices in Python

Mr Anton Joubert (South African Radio Astronomy Observatory), Dr Drew Devereux (CSIRO Australia)

18/11/2020, 10:00

The [SKA project](https://www.skatelescope.org) is mainly developed using Python and has a strong focus on [software testing](https://developer.skatelescope.org/en/latest/development_practices/ska_testing_policy_and_strategy.html). This includes testing of single devices (unit testing), testing multiple dependent devices (component testing), and testing of the fully integrated telescope...

43. MQTT protocol for Tango devices

Mr Michal Gandor (S2Innovation)

18/11/2020, 10:50

For one of our projects maintaining Panic alarms we created an MQTT connector device. It allows to easy read/write values using Tango, and in our case also from the web browser. It is now publicly available and we would like to present its features.

18. TANGO-grafana: an online diagnostic tool to assist in the analysis of interconnected problems difficult to debug in the context of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope project

Dr Matteo Di Carlo (INAF)

18/11/2020, 11:10

The selected solution for monitoring the SKA Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Prototype Integration (SKAMPI) is Prometheus. Starting from a study on the modifiability aspects of it, the Grafana project emerged as an important tool for displaying data in order to make specific reasoning and debugging of particular aspect of SKAMPI. Its plugin architecture easily allow to add new data sources like...

32. WebJive demo and architecture

Mr Matteo Canzari (INAF - OAAb)

18/11/2020, 11:30

* Demo of WebJive and recent dashboards (members of the SKA team) During this presentation we will discuss and showcase WebJive. Our aim is not only to present WebJive so that other teams can use it, but also present and discuss some architectural aspects of WebJive, and especially the most important component which connects the frontend to the Tango ecosystem. The architecture of...