5–7 Nov 2025
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Europe/Berlin timezone

Scalable Bluesky Deployment: Orchestrating Experiments at HZB

5 Nov 2025, 09:00
20m
CFEL (Building 99) (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

CFEL (Building 99)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
Contributed talk Community Talks

Speaker

Marcel Bajdel (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin)

Description

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has actively implemented and deployed the Bluesky framework as part of its modernization effort for the experimental control system at the BESSY II photon facility. The Bluesky environment at HZB is designed to orchestrate data acquisition and experiment control, leveraging the Ophyd library for hardware abstraction and EPICS for the control layer. This environment supports scalable and robust real-time device control across various beamlines and instruments at BESSY II.

The deployment includes a range of Bluesky ecosystem elements: clients such as IPython shell, Graphical User Interface or Web Interface, ZeroMQ (ØMQ) for rebroadcasting documents, Tiled as a data access service, and Bluesky Queueserver. This contribution will focus on the architecture of the services that are deployed at the BESSY II beamlines.

Author

Marcel Bajdel (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin)

Co-authors

Alexander Dillmann (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie) Daniel Tomecki (WI-AOS) Mr Luca Porzio (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin) Simone Vadilonga (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin) Will Smith (HZB)

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