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MOMPL001 Quality Assurance Plan for the SCADA System of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory 121
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  • E. Antolini
    CTA, Heidelberg, Germany
  • D. Melkumyan, K. Mosshammer, I. Oya
    DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
 
  The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the future ground-based facility for gamma-ray astronomy at very-high energies. The CTA Observatory will comprise more than 100 telescopes and calibration devices that need to be centrally managed and synchronized to perform the required scientific and technical activities. The operation of the array requires a complex Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, named Array Control and Data Acquisition (ACADA), whose quality level is crucial for maximizing the efficiency of the CTA operations. In this contribution we aim to present the Quality Assurance (QA) strategy adopted by the ACADA team to fulfill the quality standards required for the creation and usage of ACADA software. We will describe the QA organization and planned activities, together with the quality models and the related metrics defined to comply with the required quality standards. We will describe the procedures, methods and tools which will be applied in order to guarantee, that for each phase of the project, the required level of quality in the design, implementation, testing, integration, configuration, usage and maintenance of the ACADA product are met.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOMPL001  
About • paper received ※ 25 September 2019       paper accepted ※ 10 October 2019       issue date ※ 30 August 2020  
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WEMPR005 The Array Control and Data Acquisition System of the Cherenkov Telescope Array 1046
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  • I. Oya, E. Antolini, M. Fuessling
    CTA, Heidelberg, Germany
  • L. Baroncelli, A. Bulgarelli, V. Conforti, N. Parmiggiani
    INAF, Bologna, Italy
  • J. Borkowski
    CAMK, Torun, Poland
  • A. Carosi, J.N. Jacquemier, G. Maurin
    IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
  • J. Colome
    CSIC-IEEC, Bellaterra, Spain
  • C. Hoischen
    Universität Potsdam, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
  • E. Lyard, R. Walter
    University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
  • D. Melkumyan, K. Mosshammer, I. Sadeh, T. Schmidt, P.A. Wegner
    DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
  • U. Schwanke
    Humboldt University Berlin, Institut für Physik, Berlin, Germany
  • J. Schwarz
    INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy
  • G. Tosti
    Università degli di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
 
  The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project is the initiative to build the next-generation gamma-ray observatory. With more than 100 telescopes planned to be deployed in two sites, CTA is one of the largest astronomical facilities under construction. The Array Control and Data Acquisition (ACADA) system will be the central element of on-site CTA Observatory operations. The mission of the ACADA system is to manage and optimize the telescope array operations at each of the CTA sites. To that end, ACADA will provide all necessary means for the efficient execution of observations, and for the handling of the several Gb/s generated by each individual CTA telescope. The ACADA system will contain a real-time analysis pipeline, dedicated to the automatic generation of science alert candidates based on the inspection of data being acquired. These science alerts, together with external alerts arriving from other scientific installations, will permit ACADA to modify ongoing observations at sub-minute timescales in order to study high-impact scientific transient phenomena. This contribution describes the challenges, architecture, design principles, and development status of the ACADA system.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEMPR005  
About • paper received ※ 30 September 2019       paper accepted ※ 09 October 2019       issue date ※ 30 August 2020  
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