Allow to define specific HTTP and ZMQ ports

[tiagocoutinho]

Hi,

"Soon" ALBA will have an Eiger detector.
Right now, we started making some tests using an eiger simulator using a sample dectris dataset.
We fire up the simulator using configurable http port (default 8000) and zmq port (default 9999) to avoid the need of admin privileges for launching on port 80.

This PR makes it possible to create a Lima Eiger Camera object with optional http port and zmq port parameters so it can connect to a simulator for example.

[tiagocoutinho]

Should be working now.
@laurent-claustre or @alejandrohomsp could you have a quick look at this one?
Thanks a lot!

[laurent-claustre]

Hi @tiagocoutinho, we are super busy with the restart after one and 1/2 half of shutdown. We also found a bug in this plugin running Eiger1 detector for the IntTriggerMulti and ExtTriggerMulti and ExtGate.
Which detector are you using, Eiger1 or Eiger2?

[tiagocoutinho]

Hi @laurent-claustre,

No rush from my side.

We are simulating an eiger2 based on simplon 1.6 API (document version 1.3.2) which is what we will have on the beamline.
So far we just simulate IntTriggerSingle ("ints" trigger mode for the eiger) because we are interested in studying the flux of data to help us design the infrastructure.

Could you tell me what kind of machine you have running Lima for the eiger2 (cpus, ram)?
It would also help to know the lima configuration (nb processing tasks, and nb saving tasks, max buffer size)

Best of luck with the restart!

[laurent-claustre]

Hi Tiago,
this is our new configuration for the Eiger2 Lima PC, a PowerEdge R740XD Server with:

• 1 PowerEdge R740/R740XD Carte mère
• 2 Intel Xeon Silver 4216 (2,1GHz, 16C/32T, cache 22Mo, 9,6GT/s, 100W, Turbo, HT), mémoire
  DDR4 2400MHz
• 1 2933MT/s RDIMMs
• 12 16Go RDIMM, 2933MT/s, Double rangé
• 2 Disque dur Hot Plug 1To NL-SAS 12Gbit/s 512n 7200tr/min 2,5"
• 2 Dell Carte d'extension 375Go, NVMe, Express Flash hautes performances, mi-hauteur milongueur,
• 2 Mellanox ConnectX-5 Single Port EDR VPI QSFP28 100Gb PCIe Adapter, Full Height
• 1 Intel X710 Deux ports 10Gb Connexion directe/SFP+ et I350 Deux ports 1GbE Carte fille réseau

This is a new beast !! around 11keuros HT

[tiagocoutinho]

@laurent-claustre, thanks a lot for the info.

[laurent-claustre]

Hi Tiago, sorry for the late merge, we review the code today and merge it this week. We have now a detector running (500K) to test your changes.

[tiagocoutinho]

Hi, no worries on my side. I am not in a hurry.
Thanks for having a look.

[laurent-claustre]

Hi Tiago, we are pretty ready to merge and to delivery a version 1.9.4. Question, do you use the LimaCCDs pytango server?
If yes I suppose you will need new properties to be able to change the http and stream port numbers?
So we can prepare a new package for the tango camer plugin Eiger.

[tiagocoutinho]

Hi @laurent-claustre,
For my tests I don't use tango. I am using a lima-cli I wrote for the purpose (which I will make public soon :-) so I don't need the extra properties in the lima tango eiger myself.
I might soon use it so I can make a PR with the changes in the Lima tango eiger repo.

[laurent-claustre]

Hi @tiagocoutinho , thanks. no more PR needed, we added the new properties to the tango plugin.
Do you plan to use conda packages at ALBA?

[tiagocoutinho]

Ah, ok great!
For Lima yes for sure we use conda. The builds on the esrf-bcu channel are extremely useful.

[laurent-claustre]

Hi tiago, new package 1.9.4 is available, sorry for the conflict with your PR, I did change the .sip file.
Could your mark it as resolved once tested.
Thanks.