ALMA Integrated Computing Team

Coordination & Planning Meeting #3 Socorro, 17-19 June 2014

OMC Issues

Maurizio Chavan, ESO

ICT-CPM2 28-29 January 2014

CorrGUIX (ICT-543) OMC disintegrations

Two OMC Issues

ICT-CPM2 28-29 January 2014

A spin-off of the HCI initiative Brought to the state of useful prototype by Marcus Well received by DSO (Denis) Last version: July 2013 Some feedback/change requests, August 2013 Dormant since then We don't think it's within the OMC scope

CorrGUIX

ICT-CPM2 28-29 January 2014

The Ten Commandments of Alma Software Development – Joe Schwarz, 2005

The eleventh (unwritten) was: Thou shalt have no other GUIs before me (the

OMC) Since then, several plug-ins have gone feral

Shift Log Tool – large panel JLog – demanding in terms of resources new QuickLook – also resource intensive

OMC Disintegration

ICT-CPM2 28-29 January 2014

OMC has architectural issues & looks "stale"OMC is one of the many tools on the consoleOriginal OMC concept had a rationale

• consistent appearance• all-in-one-place• customizable

OMC offers synchro & comms facilities

OMC pros and cons

ICT-CPM2 28-29 January 2014

Do we have a problem with that?

We went slowly from the 11th

commandment to "anarchy"

ICT-CPM2 28-29 January 2014

NO, every Lead chooses whether to integrate or not YES, we let e.g. the Subsystem Scientist decide YES, we remove the structural & appearance issues

…we try to, anyway

Do we have a problem?