NARVAL & ENX : two potential new packages
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Hi,
Very soon I will start to package two software used in our lab : NARVAL
[1] and ENX [2].
I would like to know if these packages can be of interest to the Debian
Science community and so be hosted by Debian (in Squeeze + 1) or if it
is better to have our own server.
NARVAL (mainly developed @ IPN Orsay) is a framework to develop
acquisition system in a very short time (one or two weeks for a simple
system). It is a distributed application that can run on many nodes over
network. It is written in Ada and processes can handle user code written
in C/C++ (shared library with a well defined interface). A few lab
already use it across Europe (Germany, Italy, France) and a Debian
hosting should be a great support for promoting both Debian and NARVAL
in these labs. In fact, most of the labs use Scientific Linux which
isn't (in my humble opinion) very developer friendly at least in
comparison to Debian. Connection to hardware (commercial or specific) is
usually done writing Linux drivers. NARVAL takes data from VME, VXI,
PCI, USB, ATCA boards...
ENX (mainly developed @ CSNSM Orsay) is a companion of NARVAL, where
NARVAL handle hight data rate data flow, ENX acts as a registry server.
It loads plugins (C or Ada ones) that will able you to configure your
hardware (VME boards, ...) through the network or using a local console.
It is also written in Ada. ENX runs also in embedded environment like
powerpc cpu in Virtex 4 FPGA.
Both products can be controlled using Web Services enabling an easy way
to automate runs and be controlled by other systems and so be integrated
to more complex systems.
Advices, comments and so on are very welcome.
xavier
[1] http://narval.in2p3.fr
[2] http://enx.in2p3.fr
[3] http://www.scientificlinux.org/
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