Data Management with external devices

Guest

Hi,
We are currently optimizing our ARTIQ setup and are trying to figure out the best way to store results from devices on the network.

Our setup is that one computer runs ARTIQ, while other devices (for example cameras) are initialized and controlled by a separate computers . We want to save data such as images so that they remain well organized and easily associated with the corresponding ARTIQ experiment run ( and e.g. loop parameters). Is there a nice way to do this? Any advice is appreciated 🙂

Related to that: Is there a way to figure which folder artiq will save its result files to without keeping track of the number of experiments executed in that hour?

Thank you !

jose

Hello,

You could use the RID as a common identifier between ARTIQ and the computers controlling the cameras, since each experiment submitted to the ARTIQ master gets a unique RID, and it is available from the experiment through self.scheduler.rid. For example, the ARTIQ experiment could send the RID to the camera controller, and the camera computer could save its images in a specific directory.

For smaller data that can reasonably be represented as ARTIQ datasets, another possibility is to return the data to the ARTIQ experiment and store it with set_dataset().

Regarding the result path: the master stores results under:
results/<date>/<hour>/<RID>-<experiment>.h5

You can refer to the manual: