CORBA Controls Workshop, Grenoble 9-11 October, 2002 ACS ACS CORBA-based CORBA-based Common Software Common Software for for ALMA and other ALMA and other projects projects G.Chiozzi *, B.Gustafsson*, B.Jeram*, P.Sivera* M.Plesko**, M.Sekoranja**, G.Tkacik**, K.Zagar**, D.Fugate*** *ESO, ** CosyLab, *** NRAO
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ACS CORBA-based Common Software for ALMA and other projects. G.Chiozzi *, B.Gustafsson*, B.Jeram*, P.Sivera* M.Plesko**, M.Sekoranja**, G.Tkacik**, K.Zagar**, D.Fugate*** *ESO, ** CosyLab, *** NRAO. Contents. What is ALMA? Why a common software? What are the key ideas in ACS? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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• Joint project between astronomical organisations in Europe and North America (and Japan)
• 64 12-m antennas (25 microns, 0.6”)• Array configurations:150m-10 Km• Near S.Pedro de Atacama, Chile at 5000m• Imaging capability over 10-0.35mm range• 10 receiver bands• very high resolution correlator
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ALMA Common Software (ACS)
ALMA project is highly distributed: many sites and many “development cultures”
• ACS aims at providing an answer to the following needs:– common application framework and programming model, not just
libraries– well tested software that avoids duplication– make upgrades and maintenance reasonable– incremental development via Releases– standardisation offering environment with design patterns and
their implementation (rather than pure rules).– common configuration control/installation procedures
It worked on a comparable size project: the VLT
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ACS start-up: Summer 1999
• Preliminary discussions on ACS objectives and structure:– experience from VLT and other projects– New technology: CORBA, Java, XML
• Decided to start from existing product, to make use of CORBA experience.
• Collaboration with JSI-Ljubljana to further develop existing system built for High Energy Physics (ICALEPCS ‘99, Trieste).
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ACS Architecture
Applications
CORBA Middleware ACEDevelopment tools1 - Base tools
Device Drivers
Error System Logging SystemAstro librariesBACI Time SystemData channel2 - Core packages
Java Component
Config DB
C++ Application Framework
FITS librariesUIF libraries Scripting4 - Hi-level APIs and
tools
...more to come...Java Application Framework
ACS Installer
Command System
Alarm SystemArchiving System
MACI Manager 3 - Services
Java Container
Serialization Plugs
Activator
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Component-Container Model
• A Component-Container based architecture emphasizes Separation of Concerns.
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