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Alessandro Caproni

Software Engineer at European Southern Observatory

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Proceedings Article | 8 August 2016 Paper

ACS from development to operations

Alessandro Caproni, Pau Colomer, Bogdan Jeram, Heiko Sommer, Gianluca Chiozzi, Miguel Mañas

Proceedings Volume 9913, 991313 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231700

KEYWORDS: Software development, Observatories, Telescopes, Antennas, Astronomy, Distributed computing, Databases, Floods, Fermium, Frequency modulation

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Proceedings Article | 8 August 2016 Paper

Building a world-wide open source community around a software framework: progress, dos, and don'ts

Jorge Ibsen, Jonathan Antognini, Jorge Avarias, Alessandro Caproni, Matthias Fuessling, Guillermo Gimenez, Khushbu Verma, Matias Mora, Joseph Schwarz, Tomás Staig

Proceedings Volume 9913, 99131D (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232049

KEYWORDS: Software development, Software development, Observatories, Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, Software frameworks, Telescopes, Control systems, Prototyping, Standards development, Computer architecture, Astronomy

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As we all know too well, building up a collaborative community around a software infrastructure is not easy. Besides recruiting enthusiasts to work as part of it, mostly for free, to succeed you also need to overcome a number of technical, sociological, and, to our surprise, some political hurdles. The ALMA Common Software (ACS) was developed at ESO and partner institutions over the course of more than 10 years. While it was mainly intended for the ALMA Observatory, it was early on thought as a generic distributed control framework. ACS has been periodically released to the public through an LGPL license, which encouraged around a dozen non-ALMA institutions to make use of ACS for both industrial and educational applications. In recent years, the Cherenkov Telescope Array and the LLAMA Observatory have also decided to adopt the framework for their own control systems. The aim of the “ACS Community” is to support independent initiatives in making use of the ACS framework and to further contribute to its development. The Community provides access to a growing network of volunteers eager to develop ACS in areas that are not necessarily in ALMA's interests, and/or were not within the original system scope. Current examples are: support for additional OS platforms, extension of supported hardware interfaces, a public code repository and a build farm. The ACS Community makes use of existing collaborations with Chilean and Brazilian universities, reaching out to promising engineers in the making. At the same time, projects actively using ACS have committed valuable resources to assist the Community's work. Well established training programs like the ACS Workshops are also being continued through the Community's work. This paper aims to give a detailed account of the ongoing (second) journey towards establishing a world-wide open source collaboration around ACS. The ACS Community is growing into a horizontal partnership across a decentralized and diversified group of actors, and we are excited about its technical and human potential.

Proceedings Article | 14 July 2008 Paper

The ALMA common software: dispatch from the trenches

J. Schwarz, H. Sommer, B. Jeram, M. Sekoranja, G. Chiozzi, A. Grimstrup, A. Caproni, C. Paredes, E. Allaert, S. Harrington, S. Turolla, R. Cirami

Proceedings Volume 7019, 70190W (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.787594

KEYWORDS: Antennas, Software development, Observatories, Java, Computing systems, C++, Antimony, Solar thermal energy, Astronomy, Data acquisition

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Proceedings Article | 27 June 2006 Paper

Integrating the CERN LASER alarm system with the ALMA common software

A. Caproni, K. Sigerud, K. Zagar

Proceedings Volume 6274, 627407 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671110

KEYWORDS: Human-machine interfaces, Java, Databases, Surface plasmons, Laser development, Laser systems engineering, Logic, Computer programming, Observatories, Control systems

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Proceedings Article | 27 June 2006 Paper

Application development using the ALMA common software

G. Chiozzi, A. Caproni, B. Jeram, H. Sommer, V. Wang, M. Plesko, M. Sekoranja, K. Zagar, D. Fugate, S. Harrington, P. Di Marcantonio, R. Cirami

Proceedings Volume 6274, 627406 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671707

KEYWORDS: Software development, Antennas, Telescopes, Java, Distributed computing, C++, Computer programming languages, Computer programming, Interferometers, Prototyping

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Proceedings Article | 28 September 2004 Paper

The new active optics system of TNG

Adriano Ghedina, Manuel Gonzalez, Marcello Lodi, Massimo Cecconi, Ernesto Oliva, Salvo Scuderi, Rosario Cosentino, Alessandro Caproni

Proceedings Volume 5489, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.552571

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Active optics, Telescopes, Control systems, Actuators, Standards development, CCD cameras, Human-machine interfaces, Charge-coupled devices, Vignetting

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Proceedings Article | 15 September 2004 Paper

The ALMA common software: a developer-friendly CORBA-based framework

Gianluca Chiozzi, Bogdan Jeram, Heiko Sommer, Alessandro Caproni, Mark Plesko, Matej Sekoranja, Klemen Zagar, David Fugate, Paolo Di Marcantonio, Roberto Cirami

Proceedings Volume 5496, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551943

KEYWORDS: Java, C++, Software development, Control systems, Prototyping, Computer programming, Astronomy, Toxic industrial chemicals, Antennas, Databases

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Proceedings Article | 15 September 2004 Paper

Porting and refurbishment of the WSS TNG control software

Alessandro Caproni, Andrea Zacchei, Claudio Vuerli, Mauro Pucillo

Proceedings Volume 5496, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551541

KEYWORDS: Control systems, Telecommunications, Java, Binary data, Process control, Databases, Human-machine interfaces, Telescopes, Software development, Signal processing

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Proceedings Article | 16 December 2002 Paper

Archive systems for the TNG telescope: lessons learned in the VO perspective

Riccardo Smareglia, Fabio Pasian, Andrea Zacchei, Alessandro Caproni, Claudio Vuerli, Giuseppe Longo, Ugo Becciani, Claudio Gheller

Proceedings Volume 4846, (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460827

KEYWORDS: Data archive systems, Telescopes, Databases, Control systems, Prototyping, Observatories, Data storage, Calibration, Astronomy, Adaptive optics

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