!CHAOS Framework

The !CHAOS project is aiming at the development of a new concept of control system and data acquisition framework providing, with a high level of abstraction, all the services needed for controlling and managing a large scientific, or non-scientific, infrastructure.

!CHAOS redefines Control System paradigm by introducing the new concept of Control Service, i.e. a distributed, scalable provider offering to a general class of clients high-performance services such us data sharing, commands dispatching, continuous historical data archiving, configuration tools, middle-layer resource management etc.

Key features and development strategies of !CHAOS are:

• scalability of performances and size
• integration of all functionalities
• abstraction of services, devices and data
• easy and modular customization
• extensive data caching for performance boost
• use of high-performance internet sw technologies

!CHAOS use the standalone BSON C++ implementation, the source is exstraccted from orginal mongodb opensource distribution found on http://www.mongodb.org/ (http://www.10gen.com/) "BSON" stands for "binary JSON" - a binary storage format that is JSON inspired. This distribution merely rips it out of the bson repository into its own.

Compile !CHAOS Framework instruction:

To compile all three framework cmake is to beused with "cmake .". There is a bootstra.sh script file that try to download al dependence library and put all into {chaos root directory}/external and compiled staff into {chaos root directory}/usr/local

To generate documentation: Doxygen software is needed and it can be downloaded from http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ after installation launch from terminal "doxygen Documentation/chaosdocs"

Library used by CHAOS: libmemcached: libevent (http://libevent.org/) libmemcached (http://libmemcached.org/libMemcached.html)

memcached:      memcached                   (http://memcached.org/)

msgpack:        msgpack                     (https://github.com/msgpack)
                msgpack-rpc                 (https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-rpc)
                mpio                        (https://github.com/frsyuki/mpio)
                
boost:          boost_program_options 
                boost_system
                boost_thread
                boost_chrono
                boost_regex                 (www.boost.org)
                boost_log                   (http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost-log/files/latest/download)

for qt client download and install qwt(http://qwt.sourceforge.net/qwtinstall.html)

To develop with zmqdriver DEV_WITH_ZMQ variablemust me defined