| Title |
Status of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Integrated Computer Control and Information Systems |
| Authors |
- G.K. Brunton, A.I. Barnes, J.R. Castro Morales, M.J. Christensen, J. Dixon, M. Fedorov, M.S. Flegel, R. Lacuata, D.W. Larson, A.P. Ludwigsen, D.G. Mathisen, V.J. Miller Kamm, M. Paul, S.L. Townsend, B.M. Van Wonterghem, S. Weaver, E.F. Wilson
LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
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| Abstract |
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the world’s most energetic laser experimental facility with 192 beams capable of delivering 2.1 MJ of 500 TW ultraviolet laser light to a target. NIF experiments facilitate the study of extreme physical conditions at temperatures exceeding 100 million K and 100 billion times atmospheric pressure allowing scientists the ability to generate conditions similar to the center of the sun and explore the physics of planetary interiors, supernovae and thermonuclear burn. This year concludes a series of optimizations and enhancements to the control & information systems to sustain the quantity of experimental target shots while developing an enhanced precision diagnostic system to optimize and increase the power and energy capabilities of the facility. In addition, many new system control and diagnostic capabilities have been commissioned to increase the understanding of target performance. This year also concludes a multi-year sustainability project to migrate the control system software to Java. This talk will report on the current status of each of these areas in support of the wide variety of experiments being conducted.
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| Funding |
This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344 |
| Paper |
download MOAPP04.PDF [3.177 MB / 6 pages] |
| Slides |
download MOAPP04_TALK.PDF [10.709 MB] |
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| Conference |
ICALEPCS2019 |
| Series |
International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (17th) |
| Location |
New York, NY, USA |
| Date |
05-11 October 2019 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Karen S. White (ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, USA); Kevin A. Brown (BNL, Upton, NY, USA); Philip S. Dyer (BNL, Upton, NY, USA); Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-209-7 |
| Online ISSN |
2226-0358 |
| Received |
30 September 2019 |
| Accepted |
11 October 2019 |
| Issue Date |
30 August 2020 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOAPP04 |
| Pages |
15-20 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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