Accelerator Integrated Data Access

Rafal Olbinski's Opera Posters

SLAC Detailed

SLAC Computing

CVSWEB (Aida is in /package/aida).

AIDA helps programmers write high level applications which have to connect to different databases, data sources, or control systems, on possibly different platforms and whose APIs may be in different languages, to perform data interactions in the time-scales necessary for on-line accelerator applications. In the language of computer programming, it is a middleware framework and API for multi-platform, multi-language, distributed data access and message passing. It is implemented in Java, with Java and C++ APIs, on top of CORBA. It is now in use in the SLAC accelerator system.

Authors: Greg White, George McIntyre, Bob Sass, Bob Hall, Ron MacKenzie

Users Guides

These pages are for users of Aida, such as physicists, operations and programmers wishing to use Aida to interact with data.

Basic User Guide to Aida	Using Aida from Matlab
Aida Command Line Tools	AidaWeb Help

Individual Data Provider Users Guides

SLC Control Database	SLC History
SLC Accelerator Model	EPICS Channel Access
EPICS Channel Archiver	SLC BPM Orbit Data
SLC Magnet	SLC Multiknob
SLC MasterOscillator	SLC Klystron
SLC Trigger	SLC BGRP Set Variable
Oracle Relational Database

Programmers Guides

These pages are for developers of the Aida system itself.

New Labour basic development cheat-sheet	Aida Directory Service Database Guide
AIDA Event Handling	Directory Service Oracle Schema (pdf)
ESD Error Handling: Exception Handling	Aida Query Specification (AQS) (Word)
AIDA Coding Conventions	Names Database Contributor Taxonomy
Troubleshooting	Aida Development in Eclipse
Performance Report	Issues and Bugs
Using the Java JNI on OpenVMS

Individual Peer and Data Provider Programmers Guides

Summary of Data Providers	EPICS Channel Access Provider Programmers Guide
SLC Peer Programmers Guide	EPICS Channel Archiver
Creating an SLC Data Provider	AIDA System Management Guide

Development Resources

Aida Confluence Wiki
Aida SQL CheatSheet
Netbeans CheatSheet
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) Corba Tutorials	Jim Peterson's CORBA notes from Clemson Uni

References

J2SE 1.3 API Javadoc J2SE 1.4 API Javadoc	Java Soft
J2SE 1.4 org.omg.CORBA Javadoc	Sun ONE Whitepapers
HP Java	HP OpenVMS Java Technology Center
CVS Users Guide Independent CVS notes	Matlab support for Java
Orbacus 4.2.1 Users Guide	Java Native Interface
Enterprise Java CD Bookshelf at SLAC	Java at SLAC
JavaDoc Tags	New Features of CORBA 3.0
Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDEE)	JDEE User Guide (no frames)
Oracle and SQL*Plus Concepts and Features

Talks and Papers

Aida Presentation to EPICS 2001 at PSI - ppt or pdf

Aida Paper at ICALEPCS 2001

Design Review Minutes - ESD Exceptions.	AIDA The Video! See chat for July 17th 2002
Aida Orientation and References (Word)	Aida Review (Aug 2004): Context (pdf), Technical (pdf), Performance, Error handling spin-off.
Talk to operations of May 2005: Matlab and slides (html)	Aida Oracle Data Provider Powerpoint (June 2008) AidaOracle.ppt

The Other Aida

Aida at Classical.net

Aida Opera.com

Aida on Broadway

Abstract Interfaces for Data Analysis (AIDA).

[Aida Template Page][SLAC Controls Software Group][ SLAC Home Page]

Author: Greg White