ICALEPCS2013 - List of Keywords (status)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
MOCOAAB01	The First Running Period of the CMS Detector Controls System - A Success Story	controls, detector, experiment, hardware	1
	F. Glege, A. Aymeric, O. Chaze, S. Cittolin, J.A. Coarasa, C. Deldicque, M. Dobson, D. Gigi, R. Gomez-Reino, C. Hartl, L. Masetti, F. Meijers, E. Meschi, S. Morovic, C. Nunez-Barranco-Fernandez, L. Orsini, W. Ozga CERN, Geneva, Switzerland G. Bauer MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA U. Behrens DESY, Hamburg, Germany J. Branson, A. Holzner UCSD, La Jolla, California, USA S. Erhan UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA R.K. Mommsen, V. O'Dell Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	After only three months of commissioning, the CMS detector controls system (DCS) was running at close to 100% efficiency. Despite millions of parameters to control and the HEP typical distributed development structure, only minor problems were encountered. The system can be operated by a single person and the required maintenance effort is low. A well factorized system structure and development are keys to success as well as a centralized, service like deployment approach. The underlying controls software PVSS has proven to work in a DCS environment. Converting the DCS to full redundancy will further reduce the need for interventions to a minimum.
	Slides MOCOAAB01 [1.468 MB]

MOCOAAB06	MeerKAT Control and Monitoring - Design Concepts and Status	monitoring, interface, hardware, controls	19
	L. Van den Heever SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
	Funding: National Research Foundation of South Africa This presentation gives a status update of the MeerKAT Control & Monitoring subsystem focusing on the development philosophy, design concepts, technologies and key design decisions. The presentation will be supplemented by a poster (if accepted) with live demonstation of the current KAT-7 Control&Monitoring system. The vision for MeerKAT includes to a) use Offset Gregorian antennas in a radio telescope array combined with optimized receiver technology in order to achieve superior imaging and maximum sensitivity, b) be the most sensitive instrument in the world in L-band, c) be an instrument that will be considered the benchmark for performance and reliability by the scientific community at large, and d) be a true precursor for the SKA that will be integrated into the SKA-mid dish array. The 7-dish engineering prototype (KAT-7) for MeerKAT is already producing exciting science and is being operated 24x7. The first MeerKAT antenna will be on site by the end of this year and the first two Receptors will be fully integrated and ready for testing by April 2014. By December 2016 hardware for all 64 receptors will be installed and accepted and 32 antennas will be fully commissioned.
	Slides MOCOAAB06 [1.680 MB]

MOCOBAB01	New Electrical Network Supervision for CERN: Simpler, Safer, Faster, and Including New Modern Features	network, controls, operation, framework	27
	J-C. Tournier, G. Burdet, M. Gonzalez-Berges, S. Infante, A. Kiourkos, P. Kozlowski, F. Varela CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Since 2012, an effort started to replace the ageing electrical supervision system (managing more than 200,000 tags) currently in operation with a WinCC OA-based supervision system in order to unify the monitoring systems used by CERN operators and to leverage the internal knowledge and development of the products (JCOP, UNICOS, etc.). Along with the classical functionalities of a typical SCADA system (alarms, event, trending, archiving, access control, etc.), the supervision of the CERN electrical network requires a set of domain specific applications gathered under the name of EMS (Energy Management System). Such applications include network coloring, state estimation, power flow calculations, contingency analysis, optimal power flow, etc. Additionally, as electrical power is a critical service for CERN, a high availability of its infrastructure, including its supervision system, is required. The supervision system is therefore redundant along with a disaster recovery system which is itself redundant. In this paper, we will present the overall architecture of the future supervision system with an emphasis on the parts specific to the supervision of electrical network.
	Slides MOCOBAB01 [1.414 MB]

MOPPC024	An Event Driven Communication Protocol for Process Control: Performance Evaluation and Redundant Capabilities	PLC, controls, framework, Windows	111
	J.O. Ortola Vidal, E.B. Blanco Vinuela, M. Boccioli, T.N. Nunes da Rocha CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The CERN Unified Industrial Control System framework (UNICOS) with its Continuous Control Package (UNICOS CPC) is the CERN standard solution for the design and implementation of continuous industrial process control applications. The in-house designed communication mechanism, based on the Time Stamp Push Protocol (TSPP) provides event driven high performance data communication between the control and supervision layers of a UNICOS CPC application. In its recent implementation of full redundant capabilities for both control and supervision layers, the TSPP protocol has reached maturity. This paper presents the design of the redundancy, the architecture, the current implementation as well as a comprehensive evaluation of its performance for SIEMENS PLCs in different test scenarios.
	Poster MOPPC024 [7.161 MB]

MOPPC026	Bake-out Mobile Controls for Large Vacuum Systems	controls, vacuum, PLC, software	119
	S. Blanchard, F. Bellorini, P. Gomes, H.F. Pereira CERN, Geneva, Switzerland L. Kopylov, S. Merker, M.S. Mikheev IHEP, Moscow Region, Russia
	Large vacuum systems at CERN (Large Hadron Collider, the Low Energy Ion Rings…) require bake-out to achieve ultra-high vacuum specifications. The bake-out cycle is used to decrease the outgassing rate of the vacuum vessel and to activate the Non-Evaporable Getter (NEG) thin film. Bake-out control is a Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) regulation with complex recipes, interlocks and troubleshooting management and remote control. It is based on mobile Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) cabinets, fieldbus network and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) application. CERN vacuum installations include more than 7 km of baked vessels; using mobile cabinets reduces considerably the cost of the control system. The cabinets are installed close to the vacuum vessels during the time of the bake-out cycle. Mobile cabinets can be used in all the CERN vacuum facilities. Remote control is provided by fieldbus network and SCADA application.
	Poster MOPPC026 [3.088 MB]

MOPPC051	NSLS-II Booster Interlock System	vacuum, controls, operation, interlocks	202
	R.A. Kadyrov, P.B. Cheblakov, A.A. Derbenev, S.E. Karnaev, V.R. Mamkin BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia S. Buda, H.-C. Hseuh BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
	Being responsible for 3 GeV booster synchrotron for the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS-II, BNL, USA) design and manufacture, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics also designs the booster control and diagnostic system. Among others, the system includes interlock system consisting of equipment protection system, vacuum level and vacuum chamber temperature control system, beam diagnostic service system. These subsystems are to protect facility elements in case of vacuum leakage or chamber overheating and to provide subsidiary functions for beam diagnostics. Providing beam interlocks, it processes more then 150 signals from thermocouples, cold and hot cathode vacuum gauges and ion pump controllers. The subsystems contain nine 5U 19" chassis with hardware of each based on Allen-Bradley CompactLogix Programmable Logic Controller. All the interlock related connections are made with dry contacts, whereas system status and control is available through EPICS channel access. All operator screens are developed with Control System Studio tooling. This paper describes configuration and operation of the booster interlock system.

MOPPC053	A Safety System for Experimental Magnets Based on CompactRIO	interface, controls, hardware, experiment	210
	S. Ravat, L. Deront, A. Kehrli, X. Pons CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	This paper describes the development of a new safety system for experimental magnets using National Instruments CompactRIO devices. The design of the custom Magnet Safety System (MSS) for the large LHC experimental magnets began in 1998 and it was first installed and commissioned in 2002. Some of its components like the isolation amplifier or ALTERA Reconfigurable Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) are not available on the market any longer. A review of the system shows that it can be modernized and simplified by replacing the Hard-wired Logic Module (HLM) by a CompactRIO device. This industrial unit is a reconfigurable embedded system containing a processor running a real-time operating system (RTOS), a FPGA, and interchangeable industrial I/O modules. A prototype system, called MSS2, has been built and successfully tested using a test bench based on PXI crate. Two systems are currently being assembled for two experimental magnets at CERN, for the COMPASS solenoid and for the M1 magnet at the SPS beam line. This paper contains a detailed description of MSS2, the test bench and results from a first implementation and operation with real magnets.
	Poster MOPPC053 [0.543 MB]

MOPPC055	Revisiting CERN Safety System Monitoring (SSM)	monitoring, network, PLC, database	218
	T. Hakulinen, P. Ninin, R. Nunes, T.R. Riesco CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	CERN Safety System Monitoring (SSM) is a system for monitoring state-of-health of the various access and personnel safety systems at CERN since more than three years. SSM implements monitoring of different operating systems, network equipment, storage, and special devices like PLCs, front ends, etc. It is based on the monitoring framework Zabbix, which supports alert notifications, issue escalation, reporting, distributed management, and automatic scalability. The emphasis of SSM is on the needs of maintenance and system operation, where timely and reliable feedback directly from the systems themselves is important to quickly pinpoint immediate or creeping problems. A new application of SSM is to anticipate availability problems through predictive trending that allows to visualize and manage upcoming operational issues and infrastructure requirements. Work is underway to extend the scope of SSM to all access and safety systems managed by the access and safety team with upgrades to the monitoring methodology as well as to the visualization of results.
	Poster MOPPC055 [1.537 MB]

MOPPC056	The Detector Safety System of NA62 Experiment	experiment, detector, interface, controls	222
	G. Maire, A. Kehrli, S. Ravat CERN, Geneva, Switzerland H. Coppier ESIEE, Amiens, France
	The aim of the NA62 experiment is the study of the rare decay K⁺→π⁺ν;ν- at the CERN SPS. The Detector Safety System (DSS) developed at CERN is responsible for assuring the protection of the experiment’s equipment. DSS requires a high degree of availability and reliability. It is composed of a Front-End and a Back-End part, the Front-End being based on a National Instruments cRIO system, to which the safety critical part is delegated. The cRIO Front-End is capable of running autonomously and of automatically taking predefined protective actions whenever required. It is supervised and configured by the standard CERN PVSS SCADA system. This DSS system can easily adapt to evolving requirements of the experiment during the construction, commissioning and exploitation phases. The NA62 DSS is being installed and has been partially commissioned during the NA62 Technical Run in autumn 2012, where components from almost all the detectors as well as the trigger and the data acquisition systems were successfully tested. The paper contains a detailed description of this innovative and performing solution, and demonstrates a good alternative to the LHC systems based on redundant PLCs.
	Poster MOPPC056 [0.613 MB]

MOPPC061	Achieving a Highly Configurable Personnel Protection System for Experimental Areas	PLC, radiation, interface, controls	238
	F. Havart, D. Chapuis, R. Nunes, D. Vaxelaire CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The personnel protection system of the secondary beam experimental areas at CERN manages the beam and access interlocking mechanism. Its aim is to guarantee the safety of the experimental area users against the hazards of beam radiation and laser light. The highly configurable, interconnected, and modular nature of those areas requires a very versatile system. In order to follow closely the operational changes and new experimental setups and to still keep the required level of safety, the system was designed with a set of matrices which can be quickly reconfigured. Through a common paradigm, based on industrial hardware components, this challenging implementation has been made for both the PS and SPS experimental halls, according to the IEC 61508 standard. The current system is based on a set of hypotheses formed during 25 years of operation. Conscious of the constant increase in complexity and the broadening risk spectrum of the present and future experiments, we propose a framework intended as a practical guide to structure the design of the experimental layouts based on risk evaluation, safety function prescriptions and field equipment capabilities.
	Poster MOPPC061 [2.241 MB]

MOPPC123	Extending WinCC OA for Use as Accelerator Control System Core	controls, ion, interface, real-time	395
	M. Marchhart, A.B. Brett, M. Hager, M. Janulis, J. Junuzovic, M. Junuzovic, R. Moser, H. Pavetits, C. Torcato de Matos EBG MedAustron, Wr. Neustadt, Austria A.B. Brett, J. Gutleber, M. Hager, M. Janulis, J. Junuzovic, M. Junuzovic, M. Marchhart, R. Moser, C. Torcato de Matos CERN, Geneva, Switzerland J. Dedič Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
	The accelerator control system for the MedAustron light-ion medical particle accelerator has been designed under the guidance of CERN in the scope of an EBG MedAustron/CERN collaboration agreement. The core is based on the SIMATIC WinCC OA SCADA tool. Its open API and modular architecture permitted CERN to extend the product with features that go beyond traditional supervisory control and that are vital for directly operating a particle accelerator. Several extensions have been introduced to make WinCC OA fit for accelerator control: (1) Near real-time data visualization, (2) external application launch and monitoring, (3) accelerator settings snapshot and consistent restore, (4) generic panel navigation supporting role based permission handling, (5) native integration with interactive 3D engineering visualization, (6) integration with National Instruments based front-end controllers. The major drawback identified is the lack of support of callbacks from C++ extensions. This prevents asynchronous functions, multithreaded implementations and soft real-time behaviour. We are therefore striving to search for support in the user community to trigger the implementation of this function.
	Poster MOPPC123 [0.656 MB]

MOPPC145	Mass-Accessible Controls Data for Web Consumers	controls, network, framework, operation	449
	B. Copy, M. Labrenz, R.P. Niesler, F.M. Tilaro CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The past few years in computing have seen the emergence of smart mobile devices, sporting multi-core embedded processors, powerful graphical processing units, and pervasive high-speed network connections (supported by WIFI or EDGE/UMTS). The relatively limited capacity of these devices requires relying on dedicated embedded operating systems (such as Android, or iOS), while their diverse form factors (from mobile phone screens to large tablet screens) require the adoption of programming techniques and technologies that are both resource-efficient and standards-based for better platform independence. We will consider what are the available options for hybrid desktop / mobile web development today, from native software development kits (Android, iOS) to platform-independent solutions (mobile Google Web toolkit [3], JQuery mobile, Apache Cordova[4], Opensocial). Through the authors' successive attempts at implementing a range of solutions for LHC-related data broadcasting, from data acquisition systems, LHC middleware such as DIP and CMW, on to the World Wide Web, we will investigate what are the valid choices to make and what pitfalls to avoid in today’s web development landscape.
	Poster MOPPC145 [1.318 MB]

MOPPC146	MATLAB Objects for EPICS Channel Access	EPICS, interface, controls, operation	453
	J.T.M Chriń PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	With the substantial dependence on MATLAB for application development at the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility, the requirement for a robust and extensive EPICS Channel Access (CA) interface became increasingly imperative. To this effect, a new MATLAB Executable (Mex) file has been developed around an in-house C++ CA interface library (CAFE), which serves to expose comprehensive CA functionality to within the MATLAB framework. Immediate benefits include support for all MATLAB data types, a rich set of synchronous and asynchronous methods, a further physics oriented abstraction layer that uses CA synchronous groups, and compilation on 64-bit architectures. An account of the mocha (Matlab Objects for CHannel Access) interface is presented.

TUCOBAB03	Utilizing Atlassian JIRA for Large-Scale Software Development Management	software, controls, database, operation	505
	J.M. Fisher, D.J. Koning, A.P. Ludwigsen LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
	Funding: This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. #LLNL-ABS-632634 Used actively by the National Ignition Facility since 2004, the JIRA issue tracking system from Atlassian is now used for 63 different projects. NIF software developers and customers have created over 80,000 requests (issues) for new features and bug fixes. The largest NIF software project in JIRA is the Integrated Computer Control system (ICCS), with nearly 40,000 issues. In this paper, we’ll discuss how JIRA has been customized to meet our software development process. ICCS developed a custom workflow in JIRA for tracking code reviews, recording test results by both developers and a dedicated Quality Control team, and managing the product release process. JIRA’s advanced customization capability have proven to be a great help in tracking key metrics about the ICCS development efforts (e.g. developer workload). ICCS developers store software in a configuration management tool called AccuRev, and document all software changes in each JIRA issue. Specialized tools developed by the NIF Configuration Management team analyze each software product release, insuring that each software product release contains only the exact expected changes.
	Slides TUCOBAB03 [2.010 MB]

TUMIB01	Using Prince2 and ITIL Practices for Computing Projects and Service Management in a Scientific Installation	project-management, controls, operation, synchrotron	517
	D.F.C. Fernández-Carreiras, G. Cuní, J. Klora, M. Martin, O. Matilla, A. Nardella, V. Prat, A. Pérez Font, D. Salvat CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	The conscientious project management during the installation is a key factor keeping the schedule and costs in specifications. Methodologies like Prince2 for project management or ITIL best practices for service management, supported by tools like Request Tracker, Redmine or Track, improve the communication between scientists and support groups, speed up the time to respond, and increase the satisfaction and quality perceived by the user. In the same way, during operation, some practices complemented with software tools, may increase substantially the quality of the service with the resources available. This paper describes the use of these processes and methodologies in a scientific installation such as the synchrotron Alba. It also evaluates the strengths and the risks associated to the implementation as well as the achievements and the failures, proposing some improvements.
	Slides TUMIB01 [1.043 MB]
	Poster TUMIB01 [7.037 MB]

TUPPC025	Advantages and Challenges to the Use of On-line Feedback in CERN’s Accelerators Controls Configuration Management	controls, feedback, hardware, database	600
	Z. Zaharieva, S. Jensen, J. Rolland Lopez De Coca, A. Romero Marin CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The Controls Configuration Service (CCS) provides the Configuration Management facilities for the Controls System for all CERN accelerators. It complies with Configuration Management standards, tracking the life of configuration items and their relationships by allowing identification and triggering change management processes. Data stored in the CCS is extracted and propagated to the controls hardware for remote configuration. The article will present the ability of the CCS to audit items and verify conformance to specification with the implementation of on-line feedback focusing on Front-End Computers (FEC) configurations. Long-standing problems existed in this area such as discrepancies between the actual state of the FEC and the configuration sent to it at reboot. This resulted in difficult-to-diagnose behaviour and disturbance for the Operations team. The article will discuss the solution architecture (tailored processes and tools), the development and implementation challenges, as well as the advantages of this approach and the benefits to the user groups – from equipment specialists and controls systems experts to the operators in the Accelerators Controls Centre.
	Poster TUPPC025 [3.937 MB]

TUPPC111	Online Status and Settings Monitoring for the LHC Collimators	injection, collimation, operation, monitoring	836
	G. Valentino University of Malta, Information and Communication Technology, Msida, Malta R.W. Aßmann, D. Jacquet, S. Redaelli, E. Veyrunes CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The Large Hadron Collider is equipped with 100 movable collimators. The LHC collimator control system is responsible for the accurate synchronization of around 400 axes of motion at the microsecond level, and with the precision of a few micrometres. The status and settings of the collimators can be monitored by three displays in the CERN Control Center, each providing a different viewpoint onto the system and a different level of abstraction, such as the positions in mm or beam size units. Any errors and warnings are also displayed. In this paper, the display operation is described, as well as the interaction that occurs when an operator is required to identify and understand an error in the collimator settings.
	Poster TUPPC111 [2.260 MB]

TUPPC117	Unifying Data Diversity and Conversion to Common Engineering Analysis Tools	software, superconducting-magnet, factory, data-analysis	852
	H. Reymond, O.O. Andreassen, C. Charrondière, M.F. Gomez De La Cruz, A. Rijllart CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The large variety of systems for the measurements of insulation, conductivity, RRR, quench performance, etc. installed at CERN’s superconducting magnet test facility generates a diversity of data formats. This mixture causes problems when the measurements need to be correlated. Each measurement application has a dedicated data analysis tool used to validate its results, but there are no generic bridge between the applications that facilitates cross analysis of mixed data and data types. Since the LHC start-up, the superconducting magnet test facility hosts new R&D measurements on a multitude of superconducting components. These results are analysed by international collaborators, which triggered a greater need to access the raw data from many typical engineering and analysis tools, such as MATLAB®, Mathcad®, DIAdem™, Excel™… This paper describes the technical solutions developed for the data formats unification and reviews the present status.
	Poster TUPPC117 [11.140 MB]

TUPPC129	NIF Device Health Monitoring	controls, GUI, monitoring, framework	887
	R. Fleming, C.M. Estes, J.M. Fisher, E.A. Stout LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
	Funding: * This work was performed under the auspices of the Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, (LLNS) under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344. #LLNL-ABS-633794 The Integrated Computer Control System (ICCS) at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) uses Front-End Processors (FEP) controlling over 60,000 devices. Often device faults are not discovered until a device is needed during a shot, creating run-time errors that delay the laser shot. This paper discusses a new ICCS framework feature for FEPs to monitor devices and report its overall health, allowing for problem devices to be identified before they are needed. Each FEP has different devices and a unique definition of healthy. The ICCS software uses an object oriented approach using polymorphism so FEP’s can determine their health status and report it in a consistent way. This generic approach provides consistent GUI indication and the display of detailed information of device problems. It allows for operators to be informed quickly of faults and provides them with the information necessary to pin point and resolve issues. Operators now know before starting a shot if the control system is ready, thereby reducing time and material lost due to a failure and improving overall control system reliability and availability.
	Poster TUPPC129 [2.318 MB]

TUPPC132	Accelerator Control Data Visualization with Google Map	controls, target, GUI, survey	897
	W. Fu, S. Nemesure BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
	Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. Using geological map data to serve as a visualization for components of a Controls System provides Main Control Room Operators an easy way to both identify and locate conditions within specific parts of an accelerator complex that may require attention. Google's Map API provides a simple and convenient way to display some of C-AD's Controls System data and provide location and status feedback using dynamic symbols and animations. This paper describes the details of how chipmunk and beam loss data visualization can be implemented for the AGS/RHIC Controls system. Most of the server side and client site software can be easily adapted to many other similar types of data visualizations. Wenge Fu, Seth Nemesure, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
	Poster TUPPC132 [2.086 MB]

TUCOCA10	Improvements in the T2K Primary Beamline Control System	PLC, controls, power-supply, EPICS	940
	K. Nakayoshi, Y. Fujii, K. Sakashita KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
	T2K is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. We report recent improvements in the T2K primary beamline control system. The first improvement is a new interlock system for current fluctuations of the normal-conducting (NC) magnet power supplies. To prevent the intense beam from hitting the beamline equipment due to a current fluctuation in a magnet power supply, we continuously monitor the power supply output current using digital-panel-meters. The second improvement is a new PLC-based control system for the NC magnet power supplies. We will also discuss the actual implementation of these improvements.
	Slides TUCOCA10 [2.595 MB]

WECOBA04	Effective End-to-end Management of Data Acquisition and Analysis for X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy	detector, photon, experiment, real-time	1004
	F. Khan, J.P. Hammonds, S. Narayanan, A. Sandy, N. Schwarz ANL, Argonne, USA
	Funding: Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. Low latency between data acquisition and analysis is of critical importance to any experiment. The combination of a faster parallel algorithm and a data pipeline for connecting disparate components (detectors, clusters, file formats) enabled us to greatly enhance the operational efficiency of the x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy experiment facility at the Advanced Photon Source. The improved workflow starts with raw data (120 MB/s) streaming directly from the detector camera, through an on-the-fly discriminator implemented in firmware to Hadoop’s distributed file system in a structured HDF5 data format. The user then triggers the MapReduce-based parallel analysis. For effective bookkeeping and data management, the provenance information and reduced results are added to the original HDF5 file. Finally, the data pipeline triggers user specific software for visualizing the data. The whole process is completed shortly after data acquisition – a significant improvement of operation over previous setup. The faster turn-around time helps scientists to make near real-time adjustments to the experiments.
	Slides WECOBA04 [9.540 MB]

THCOAAB01	A Scalable and Homogeneous Web-Based Solution for Presenting CMS Control System Data	controls, interface, software, detector	1040
	L. Masetti, O. Chaze, J.A. Coarasa, C. Deldicque, M. Dobson, A.D. Dupont, D. Gigi, F. Glege, R. Gomez-Reino, C. Hartl, F. Meijers, E. Meschi, S. Morovic, C. Nunez-Barranco-Fernandez, L. Orsini, W. Ozga, A. Petrucci, G. Polese, A. Racz, H. Sakulin, C. Schwick, A.C. Spataru, C.C. Wakefield, P. Zejdi CERN, Geneva, Switzerland G. Bauer, C. Paus, O. Raginel, F. Stoeckli, K. Sumorok MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA U. Behrens DESY, Hamburg, Germany J. Branson, S. Cittolin, A. Holzner, M. Pieri, M. Sani UCSD, La Jolla, California, USA S. Erhan UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA R.K. Mommsen, V. O'Dell Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	The Control System of the CMS experiment ensures the monitoring and safe operation of over 1M parameters. The high demand for access to online and historical Control System Data calls for a scalable solution combining multiple data sources. The advantage of a Web solution is that data can be accessed from everywhere with no additional software. Moreover, existing visualization libraries can be reused to achieve a user-friendly and effective data presentation. Access to the online information is provided with minimal impact on the running control system by using a common cache in order to be independent of the number of users. Historical data archived by the SCADA software is accessed via an Oracle Database. The web interfaces provide mostly a read-only access to data but some commands are also allowed. Moreover, developers and experts use web interfaces to deploy the control software and administer the SCADA projects in production. By using an enterprise portal, we profit from single sign-on and role-based access control. Portlets maintained by different developers are centrally integrated into dynamic pages, resulting in a consistent user experience.
	Slides THCOAAB01 [1.814 MB]

THCOAAB03	Bringing Control System User Interfaces to the Web	controls, interface, EPICS, network	1048
	X.H. Chen, K.-U. Kasemir ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
	Funding: SNS is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the U.S. Department of Energy With the evolution of web based technologies, especially HTML5[1], it becomes possible to create web-based control system user interfaces (UI) that are cross-browser and cross-device compatible. This article describes two technologies that facilitate this goal. The first one is the WebOPI [2], which can seamlessly display CSS BOY[3] Operator Interfaces (OPI) in web browsers without modification to the original OPI file. The WebOPI leverages the powerful graphical editing capabilities of BOY, it provides the convenience of re-using existing OPI files. On the other hand, it uses auto-generated JavaScript and a generic communication mechanism between the web browser and web server. It is not optimized for a control system, which results in unnecessary network traffic and resource usage. Our second technology is the WebSocket-based Process Data Access (WebPDA). It is a protocol that provides efficient control system data communication using WebSockets[4], so that users can create web-based control system UIs using standard web page technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The protocol is control system independent, so it potentially can support any type of control system. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5 [2]https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/cs-studio/wiki/webopi [3]https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/cs-studio/wiki/BOY [4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket
	Slides THCOAAB03 [1.768 MB]

THPPC006	REMBRANDT - REMote Beam instRumentation And Network Diagnosis Tool	controls, database, monitoring, network	1103
	T. Hoffmann, H. Bräuning GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
	As with any other large accelerator complex in operation today, the beam instrumentation devices and associated data acquisition components for the coming FAIR accelerators will be distributed over a large area and partially installed in inaccessible radiation exposed areas. Besides operation of the device itself, like acquisition of data, it is mandatory to control also the supporting LAN based components like VME/μTCA crates, front-end computers (FEC), middle ware servers and more. Fortunately many COTS systems provide means for remote control and monitoring using a variety of standardized protocols like SNMP, IPMI or iAMT. REMBRANDT is a Java framework, which allows the authorized user to monitor and control remote systems while hiding the underlying protocols and connection information such as ip addresses, user-ids and passwords. Beneath voltage and current control, the main features are the remote power switching of the systems and the reverse telnet boot process observation of FECs. REMBRANDT is designed to be easily extensible with new protocols and features. The software concept, including the client-server part and the database integration, will be presented.
	Poster THPPC006 [3.139 MB]

THPPC037	EPICS-based Control System for New Skew Quadrupole Magnets in J-PARC MR	controls, PLC, EPICS, quadrupole	1168
	K.C. Sato JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan S. Igarashi KEK, Ibaraki, Japan N. Kamikubota, J. Takano, S. Yamada, N. Yamamoto J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan S.Y. Yoshida Kanto Information Service (KIS), Accelerator Group, Ibaraki, Japan
	In J-PARC Main Ring (MR), a control system for new skew quadrupole magnets has been constructed. This system is based on EPICS　(Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System). The system comprises a YOKOGAWA F3RP61-2L (a PLC controller running Linux), a function generator (Tektronix AFG3000), and a commercial bipolar-DC Amplifier. The function generator is controlled using VXI-11 protocol over Ethernet, and the amplifier is connected to PLC I/O modules with hardwire. Both devices are controlled by the F3RP61-2L. The Function Generator produces a ramp waveform at each machine cycle of 2.48 seconds. The DC amplifire drives the magnet. The control system for skew quadrupole magnets was developed in 2012, and has been in opeation since January, 2013.
	Poster THPPC037 [1.027 MB]

THPPC081	High-level Functions for Modern Control Systems: A Practical Example	controls, experiment, framework, monitoring	1262
	F. Varela, W.J. Fabian, P. Golonka, M. Gonzalez-Berges, L.B. Petrova CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Modern control systems make wide usage of different IT technologies and complex computational techniques to render the data gathered accessible from different locations and devices, as well as to understand and even predict the behavior of the systems under supervision. The Industrial Controls Engineering (ICE) Group of the EN Department develops and maintains more than 150 vital controls applications for a number of strategic sectors at CERN like the accelerator, the experiments and the central infrastructure systems. All these applications are supervised by MOON, a very successful central monitoring and configuration tool developed by the group that has been in operation 24/7 since 2011. The basic functionality of MOON was presented in previous editions of these series of conferences. In this contribution we focus on the high-level functionality recently added to the tool to grant access to multiple users through the web and mobile devices to the data gathered, as well as a first attempt to data analytics with the goal of identifying useful information to support developers during the optimization of their systems and help in the daily operations of the systems.

THCOBA01	Evolution of the Monitoring in the LHCb Online System	monitoring, database, interface, distributed	1408
	C. Haen, E. Bonaccorsi, N. Neufeld CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The LHCb online system relies on a large and heterogeneous I.T. infrastructure : it comprises more than 2000 servers and embedded systems and more than 200 network devices. The low level monitoring of the equipment was originally done with Nagios. In 2011, we replaced the single Nagios instance with a distributed Icinga setup presented at ICALEPCS 2011. This paper will present with more hindsight the improvements we observed, as well as problems encountered. Finally, we will describe some of our prospects for the future after the Long Shutdown period, namely Shinken and Ganglia.
	Slides THCOBA01 [1.426 MB]

FRCOAAB07	Operational Experience with the ALICE Detector Control System	detector, controls, operation, experiment	1485
	P.Ch. Chochula, A. Augustinus, A.N. Kurepin, M. Lechman, O. Pinazza, P. Rosinský CERN, Geneva, Switzerland A.N. Kurepin RAS/INR, Moscow, Russia O. Pinazza INFN-Bologna, Bologna, Italy
	The first LHC run period, lasting 4 year brought exciting physics results and new insight into the mysteries of the matter. One of the key components in this achievements were the detectors, which provided unprecedented amounts of data of the highest quality. The control systems, responsible for their smooth and safe operation, played a key role in this success. The design of the ALICE Detector Control System (DCS) started more than 12 years ago. High level of standardization and pragmatic design led to a reliable and stable system, which allowed for efficient experiment operation. In this presentation we summarize the overall architectural principles of the system, the standardized components and procedures. The original expectations and plans are compared with the final design. Focus is given on the operational procedures, which evolved with time. We explain, how a single operator can control and protect a complex device like ALICE, with millions of readout channels and several thousand control devices and boards. We explain what we learned during the first years of LHC operation and which improvements will be implemented to provide excellent DCS service during the next years.
	Slides FRCOAAB07 [7.856 MB]

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MOCOAAB01

The First Running Period of the CMS Detector Controls System - A Success Story

controls, detector, experiment, hardware

1

F. Glege, A. Aymeric, O. Chaze, S. Cittolin, J.A. Coarasa, C. Deldicque, M. Dobson, D. Gigi, R. Gomez-Reino, C. Hartl, L. Masetti, F. Meijers, E. Meschi, S. Morovic, C. Nunez-Barranco-Fernandez, L. Orsini, W. Ozga
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
G. Bauer
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
U. Behrens
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
J. Branson, A. Holzner
UCSD, La Jolla, California, USA
S. Erhan
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
R.K. Mommsen, V. O'Dell
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

After only three months of commissioning, the CMS detector controls system (DCS) was running at close to 100% efficiency. Despite millions of parameters to control and the HEP typical distributed development structure, only minor problems were encountered. The system can be operated by a single person and the required maintenance effort is low. A well factorized system structure and development are keys to success as well as a centralized, service like deployment approach. The underlying controls software PVSS has proven to work in a DCS environment. Converting the DCS to full redundancy will further reduce the need for interventions to a minimum.

Slides MOCOAAB01 [1.468 MB]

MOCOAAB06

MeerKAT Control and Monitoring - Design Concepts and Status

monitoring, interface, hardware, controls

19

L. Van den Heever
SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

Funding: National Research Foundation of South Africa
This presentation gives a status update of the MeerKAT Control & Monitoring subsystem focusing on the development philosophy, design concepts, technologies and key design decisions. The presentation will be supplemented by a poster (if accepted) with **live demonstation** of the current KAT-7 Control&Monitoring system. The vision for MeerKAT includes to a) use Offset Gregorian antennas in a radio telescope array combined with optimized receiver technology in order to achieve superior imaging and maximum sensitivity, b) be the most sensitive instrument in the world in L-band, c) be an instrument that will be considered the benchmark for performance and reliability by the scientific community at large, and d) be a true precursor for the SKA that will be integrated into the SKA-mid dish array. The 7-dish engineering prototype (KAT-7) for MeerKAT is already producing exciting science and is being operated 24x7. The first MeerKAT antenna will be on site by the end of this year and the first two Receptors will be fully integrated and ready for testing by April 2014. By December 2016 hardware for all 64 receptors will be installed and accepted and 32 antennas will be fully commissioned.

Slides MOCOAAB06 [1.680 MB]

MOCOBAB01

New Electrical Network Supervision for CERN: Simpler, Safer, Faster, and Including New Modern Features

network, controls, operation, framework

27

J-C. Tournier, G. Burdet, M. Gonzalez-Berges, S. Infante, A. Kiourkos, P. Kozlowski, F. Varela
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Since 2012, an effort started to replace the ageing electrical supervision system (managing more than 200,000 tags) currently in operation with a WinCC OA-based supervision system in order to unify the monitoring systems used by CERN operators and to leverage the internal knowledge and development of the products (JCOP, UNICOS, etc.). Along with the classical functionalities of a typical SCADA system (alarms, event, trending, archiving, access control, etc.), the supervision of the CERN electrical network requires a set of domain specific applications gathered under the name of EMS (Energy Management System). Such applications include network coloring, state estimation, power flow calculations, contingency analysis, optimal power flow, etc. Additionally, as electrical power is a critical service for CERN, a high availability of its infrastructure, including its supervision system, is required. The supervision system is therefore redundant along with a disaster recovery system which is itself redundant. In this paper, we will present the overall architecture of the future supervision system with an emphasis on the parts specific to the supervision of electrical network.

Slides MOCOBAB01 [1.414 MB]

MOPPC024

An Event Driven Communication Protocol for Process Control: Performance Evaluation and Redundant Capabilities

PLC, controls, framework, Windows

111

J.O. Ortola Vidal, E.B. Blanco Vinuela, M. Boccioli, T.N. Nunes da Rocha
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The CERN Unified Industrial Control System framework (UNICOS) with its Continuous Control Package (UNICOS CPC) is the CERN standard solution for the design and implementation of continuous industrial process control applications. The in-house designed communication mechanism, based on the Time Stamp Push Protocol (TSPP) provides event driven high performance data communication between the control and supervision layers of a UNICOS CPC application. In its recent implementation of full redundant capabilities for both control and supervision layers, the TSPP protocol has reached maturity. This paper presents the design of the redundancy, the architecture, the current implementation as well as a comprehensive evaluation of its performance for SIEMENS PLCs in different test scenarios.

Poster MOPPC024 [7.161 MB]

MOPPC026

Bake-out Mobile Controls for Large Vacuum Systems

controls, vacuum, PLC, software

119

S. Blanchard, F. Bellorini, P. Gomes, H.F. Pereira
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
L. Kopylov, S. Merker, M.S. Mikheev
IHEP, Moscow Region, Russia

Large vacuum systems at CERN (Large Hadron Collider, the Low Energy Ion Rings…) require bake-out to achieve ultra-high vacuum specifications. The bake-out cycle is used to decrease the outgassing rate of the vacuum vessel and to activate the Non-Evaporable Getter (NEG) thin film. Bake-out control is a Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) regulation with complex recipes, interlocks and troubleshooting management and remote control. It is based on mobile Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) cabinets, fieldbus network and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) application. CERN vacuum installations include more than 7 km of baked vessels; using mobile cabinets reduces considerably the cost of the control system. The cabinets are installed close to the vacuum vessels during the time of the bake-out cycle. Mobile cabinets can be used in all the CERN vacuum facilities. Remote control is provided by fieldbus network and SCADA application.

Poster MOPPC026 [3.088 MB]

MOPPC051

NSLS-II Booster Interlock System

vacuum, controls, operation, interlocks

202

R.A. Kadyrov, P.B. Cheblakov, A.A. Derbenev, S.E. Karnaev, V.R. Mamkin
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
S. Buda, H.-C. Hseuh
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA

Being responsible for 3 GeV booster synchrotron for the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS-II, BNL, USA) design and manufacture, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics also designs the booster control and diagnostic system. Among others, the system includes interlock system consisting of equipment protection system, vacuum level and vacuum chamber temperature control system, beam diagnostic service system. These subsystems are to protect facility elements in case of vacuum leakage or chamber overheating and to provide subsidiary functions for beam diagnostics. Providing beam interlocks, it processes more then 150 signals from thermocouples, cold and hot cathode vacuum gauges and ion pump controllers. The subsystems contain nine 5U 19" chassis with hardware of each based on Allen-Bradley CompactLogix Programmable Logic Controller. All the interlock related connections are made with dry contacts, whereas system status and control is available through EPICS channel access. All operator screens are developed with Control System Studio tooling. This paper describes configuration and operation of the booster interlock system.

MOPPC053

A Safety System for Experimental Magnets Based on CompactRIO

interface, controls, hardware, experiment

210

S. Ravat, L. Deront, A. Kehrli, X. Pons
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

This paper describes the development of a new safety system for experimental magnets using National Instruments CompactRIO devices. The design of the custom Magnet Safety System (MSS) for the large LHC experimental magnets began in 1998 and it was first installed and commissioned in 2002. Some of its components like the isolation amplifier or ALTERA Reconfigurable Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) are not available on the market any longer. A review of the system shows that it can be modernized and simplified by replacing the Hard-wired Logic Module (HLM) by a CompactRIO device. This industrial unit is a reconfigurable embedded system containing a processor running a real-time operating system (RTOS), a FPGA, and interchangeable industrial I/O modules. A prototype system, called MSS2, has been built and successfully tested using a test bench based on PXI crate. Two systems are currently being assembled for two experimental magnets at CERN, for the COMPASS solenoid and for the M1 magnet at the SPS beam line. This paper contains a detailed description of MSS2, the test bench and results from a first implementation and operation with real magnets.

Poster MOPPC053 [0.543 MB]

MOPPC055

Revisiting CERN Safety System Monitoring (SSM)

monitoring, network, PLC, database

218

T. Hakulinen, P. Ninin, R. Nunes, T.R. Riesco
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

CERN Safety System Monitoring (SSM) is a system for monitoring state-of-health of the various access and personnel safety systems at CERN since more than three years. SSM implements monitoring of different operating systems, network equipment, storage, and special devices like PLCs, front ends, etc. It is based on the monitoring framework Zabbix, which supports alert notifications, issue escalation, reporting, distributed management, and automatic scalability. The emphasis of SSM is on the needs of maintenance and system operation, where timely and reliable feedback directly from the systems themselves is important to quickly pinpoint immediate or creeping problems. A new application of SSM is to anticipate availability problems through predictive trending that allows to visualize and manage upcoming operational issues and infrastructure requirements. Work is underway to extend the scope of SSM to all access and safety systems managed by the access and safety team with upgrades to the monitoring methodology as well as to the visualization of results.

Poster MOPPC055 [1.537 MB]

MOPPC056

The Detector Safety System of NA62 Experiment

experiment, detector, interface, controls

222

G. Maire, A. Kehrli, S. Ravat
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
H. Coppier
ESIEE, Amiens, France

The aim of the NA62 experiment is the study of the rare decay K⁺→π⁺ν;ν- at the CERN SPS. The Detector Safety System (DSS) developed at CERN is responsible for assuring the protection of the experiment’s equipment. DSS requires a high degree of availability and reliability. It is composed of a Front-End and a Back-End part, the Front-End being based on a National Instruments cRIO system, to which the safety critical part is delegated. The cRIO Front-End is capable of running autonomously and of automatically taking predefined protective actions whenever required. It is supervised and configured by the standard CERN PVSS SCADA system. This DSS system can easily adapt to evolving requirements of the experiment during the construction, commissioning and exploitation phases. The NA62 DSS is being installed and has been partially commissioned during the NA62 Technical Run in autumn 2012, where components from almost all the detectors as well as the trigger and the data acquisition systems were successfully tested. The paper contains a detailed description of this innovative and performing solution, and demonstrates a good alternative to the LHC systems based on redundant PLCs.

Poster MOPPC056 [0.613 MB]

MOPPC061

Achieving a Highly Configurable Personnel Protection System for Experimental Areas

PLC, radiation, interface, controls

238

F. Havart, D. Chapuis, R. Nunes, D. Vaxelaire
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The personnel protection system of the secondary beam experimental areas at CERN manages the beam and access interlocking mechanism. Its aim is to guarantee the safety of the experimental area users against the hazards of beam radiation and laser light. The highly configurable, interconnected, and modular nature of those areas requires a very versatile system. In order to follow closely the operational changes and new experimental setups and to still keep the required level of safety, the system was designed with a set of matrices which can be quickly reconfigured. Through a common paradigm, based on industrial hardware components, this challenging implementation has been made for both the PS and SPS experimental halls, according to the IEC 61508 standard. The current system is based on a set of hypotheses formed during 25 years of operation. Conscious of the constant increase in complexity and the broadening risk spectrum of the present and future experiments, we propose a framework intended as a practical guide to structure the design of the experimental layouts based on risk evaluation, safety function prescriptions and field equipment capabilities.

Poster MOPPC061 [2.241 MB]

MOPPC123

Extending WinCC OA for Use as Accelerator Control System Core

controls, ion, interface, real-time

395

M. Marchhart, A.B. Brett, M. Hager, M. Janulis, J. Junuzovic, M. Junuzovic, R. Moser, H. Pavetits, C. Torcato de Matos
EBG MedAustron, Wr. Neustadt, Austria
A.B. Brett, J. Gutleber, M. Hager, M. Janulis, J. Junuzovic, M. Junuzovic, M. Marchhart, R. Moser, C. Torcato de Matos
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
J. Dedič
Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia

The accelerator control system for the MedAustron light-ion medical particle accelerator has been designed under the guidance of CERN in the scope of an EBG MedAustron/CERN collaboration agreement. The core is based on the SIMATIC WinCC OA SCADA tool. Its open API and modular architecture permitted CERN to extend the product with features that go beyond traditional supervisory control and that are vital for directly operating a particle accelerator. Several extensions have been introduced to make WinCC OA fit for accelerator control: (1) Near real-time data visualization, (2) external application launch and monitoring, (3) accelerator settings snapshot and consistent restore, (4) generic panel navigation supporting role based permission handling, (5) native integration with interactive 3D engineering visualization, (6) integration with National Instruments based front-end controllers. The major drawback identified is the lack of support of callbacks from C++ extensions. This prevents asynchronous functions, multithreaded implementations and soft real-time behaviour. We are therefore striving to search for support in the user community to trigger the implementation of this function.

Poster MOPPC123 [0.656 MB]

MOPPC145

Mass-Accessible Controls Data for Web Consumers

controls, network, framework, operation

449

B. Copy, M. Labrenz, R.P. Niesler, F.M. Tilaro
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The past few years in computing have seen the emergence of smart mobile devices, sporting multi-core embedded processors, powerful graphical processing units, and pervasive high-speed network connections (supported by WIFI or EDGE/UMTS). The relatively limited capacity of these devices requires relying on dedicated embedded operating systems (such as Android, or iOS), while their diverse form factors (from mobile phone screens to large tablet screens) require the adoption of programming techniques and technologies that are both resource-efficient and standards-based for better platform independence. We will consider what are the available options for hybrid desktop / mobile web development today, from native software development kits (Android, iOS) to platform-independent solutions (mobile Google Web toolkit [3], JQuery mobile, Apache Cordova[4], Opensocial). Through the authors' successive attempts at implementing a range of solutions for LHC-related data broadcasting, from data acquisition systems, LHC middleware such as DIP and CMW, on to the World Wide Web, we will investigate what are the valid choices to make and what pitfalls to avoid in today’s web development landscape.

Poster MOPPC145 [1.318 MB]

MOPPC146

MATLAB Objects for EPICS Channel Access

EPICS, interface, controls, operation

453

J.T.M Chriń
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

With the substantial dependence on MATLAB for application development at the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility, the requirement for a robust and extensive EPICS Channel Access (CA) interface became increasingly imperative. To this effect, a new MATLAB Executable (Mex) file has been developed around an in-house C++ CA interface library (CAFE), which serves to expose comprehensive CA functionality to within the MATLAB framework. Immediate benefits include support for all MATLAB data types, a rich set of synchronous and asynchronous methods, a further physics oriented abstraction layer that uses CA synchronous groups, and compilation on 64-bit architectures. An account of the mocha (Matlab Objects for CHannel Access) interface is presented.

TUCOBAB03

Utilizing Atlassian JIRA for Large-Scale Software Development Management

software, controls, database, operation

505

J.M. Fisher, D.J. Koning, A.P. Ludwigsen
LLNL, Livermore, California, USA

Funding: This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. #LLNL-ABS-632634
Used actively by the National Ignition Facility since 2004, the JIRA issue tracking system from Atlassian is now used for 63 different projects. NIF software developers and customers have created over 80,000 requests (issues) for new features and bug fixes. The largest NIF software project in JIRA is the Integrated Computer Control system (ICCS), with nearly 40,000 issues. In this paper, we’ll discuss how JIRA has been customized to meet our software development process. ICCS developed a custom workflow in JIRA for tracking code reviews, recording test results by both developers and a dedicated Quality Control team, and managing the product release process. JIRA’s advanced customization capability have proven to be a great help in tracking key metrics about the ICCS development efforts (e.g. developer workload). ICCS developers store software in a configuration management tool called AccuRev, and document all software changes in each JIRA issue. Specialized tools developed by the NIF Configuration Management team analyze each software product release, insuring that each software product release contains only the exact expected changes.

Slides TUCOBAB03 [2.010 MB]

TUMIB01

Using Prince2 and ITIL Practices for Computing Projects and Service Management in a Scientific Installation

project-management, controls, operation, synchrotron

517

D.F.C. Fernández-Carreiras, G. Cuní, J. Klora, M. Martin, O. Matilla, A. Nardella, V. Prat, A. Pérez Font, D. Salvat
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

The conscientious project management during the installation is a key factor keeping the schedule and costs in specifications. Methodologies like Prince2 for project management or ITIL best practices for service management, supported by tools like Request Tracker, Redmine or Track, improve the communication between scientists and support groups, speed up the time to respond, and increase the satisfaction and quality perceived by the user. In the same way, during operation, some practices complemented with software tools, may increase substantially the quality of the service with the resources available. This paper describes the use of these processes and methodologies in a scientific installation such as the synchrotron Alba. It also evaluates the strengths and the risks associated to the implementation as well as the achievements and the failures, proposing some improvements.

Slides TUMIB01 [1.043 MB]

Poster TUMIB01 [7.037 MB]

TUPPC025

Advantages and Challenges to the Use of On-line Feedback in CERN’s Accelerators Controls Configuration Management

controls, feedback, hardware, database

600

Z. Zaharieva, S. Jensen, J. Rolland Lopez De Coca, A. Romero Marin
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The Controls Configuration Service (CCS) provides the Configuration Management facilities for the Controls System for all CERN accelerators. It complies with Configuration Management standards, tracking the life of configuration items and their relationships by allowing identification and triggering change management processes. Data stored in the CCS is extracted and propagated to the controls hardware for remote configuration. The article will present the ability of the CCS to audit items and verify conformance to specification with the implementation of on-line feedback focusing on Front-End Computers (FEC) configurations. Long-standing problems existed in this area such as discrepancies between the actual state of the FEC and the configuration sent to it at reboot. This resulted in difficult-to-diagnose behaviour and disturbance for the Operations team. The article will discuss the solution architecture (tailored processes and tools), the development and implementation challenges, as well as the advantages of this approach and the benefits to the user groups – from equipment specialists and controls systems experts to the operators in the Accelerators Controls Centre.

Poster TUPPC025 [3.937 MB]

TUPPC111

Online Status and Settings Monitoring for the LHC Collimators

injection, collimation, operation, monitoring

836

G. Valentino
University of Malta, Information and Communication Technology, Msida, Malta
R.W. Aßmann, D. Jacquet, S. Redaelli, E. Veyrunes
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The Large Hadron Collider is equipped with 100 movable collimators. The LHC collimator control system is responsible for the accurate synchronization of around 400 axes of motion at the microsecond level, and with the precision of a few micrometres. The status and settings of the collimators can be monitored by three displays in the CERN Control Center, each providing a different viewpoint onto the system and a different level of abstraction, such as the positions in mm or beam size units. Any errors and warnings are also displayed. In this paper, the display operation is described, as well as the interaction that occurs when an operator is required to identify and understand an error in the collimator settings.

Poster TUPPC111 [2.260 MB]

TUPPC117

Unifying Data Diversity and Conversion to Common Engineering Analysis Tools

software, superconducting-magnet, factory, data-analysis

852

H. Reymond, O.O. Andreassen, C. Charrondière, M.F. Gomez De La Cruz, A. Rijllart
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The large variety of systems for the measurements of insulation, conductivity, RRR, quench performance, etc. installed at CERN’s superconducting magnet test facility generates a diversity of data formats. This mixture causes problems when the measurements need to be correlated. Each measurement application has a dedicated data analysis tool used to validate its results, but there are no generic bridge between the applications that facilitates cross analysis of mixed data and data types. Since the LHC start-up, the superconducting magnet test facility hosts new R&D measurements on a multitude of superconducting components. These results are analysed by international collaborators, which triggered a greater need to access the raw data from many typical engineering and analysis tools, such as MATLAB®, Mathcad®, DIAdem™, Excel™… This paper describes the technical solutions developed for the data formats unification and reviews the present status.

Poster TUPPC117 [11.140 MB]

TUPPC129

NIF Device Health Monitoring

controls, GUI, monitoring, framework

887

R. Fleming, C.M. Estes, J.M. Fisher, E.A. Stout
LLNL, Livermore, California, USA

Funding: * This work was performed under the auspices of the Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, (LLNS) under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344. #LLNL-ABS-633794
The Integrated Computer Control System (ICCS) at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) uses Front-End Processors (FEP) controlling over 60,000 devices. Often device faults are not discovered until a device is needed during a shot, creating run-time errors that delay the laser shot. This paper discusses a new ICCS framework feature for FEPs to monitor devices and report its overall health, allowing for problem devices to be identified before they are needed. Each FEP has different devices and a unique definition of healthy. The ICCS software uses an object oriented approach using polymorphism so FEP’s can determine their health status and report it in a consistent way. This generic approach provides consistent GUI indication and the display of detailed information of device problems. It allows for operators to be informed quickly of faults and provides them with the information necessary to pin point and resolve issues. Operators now know before starting a shot if the control system is ready, thereby reducing time and material lost due to a failure and improving overall control system reliability and availability.

Poster TUPPC129 [2.318 MB]

TUPPC132

Accelerator Control Data Visualization with Google Map

controls, target, GUI, survey

897

W. Fu, S. Nemesure
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA

Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Using geological map data to serve as a visualization for components of a Controls System provides Main Control Room Operators an easy way to both identify and locate conditions within specific parts of an accelerator complex that may require attention. Google's Map API provides a simple and convenient way to display some of C-AD's Controls System data and provide location and status feedback using dynamic symbols and animations. This paper describes the details of how chipmunk and beam loss data visualization can be implemented for the AGS/RHIC Controls system. Most of the server side and client site software can be easily adapted to many other similar types of data visualizations.
Wenge Fu, Seth Nemesure, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA

Poster TUPPC132 [2.086 MB]

TUCOCA10

Improvements in the T2K Primary Beamline Control System

PLC, controls, power-supply, EPICS

940

K. Nakayoshi, Y. Fujii, K. Sakashita
KEK, Tsukuba, Japan

T2K is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. We report recent improvements in the T2K primary beamline control system. The first improvement is a new interlock system for current fluctuations of the normal-conducting (NC) magnet power supplies. To prevent the intense beam from hitting the beamline equipment due to a current fluctuation in a magnet power supply, we continuously monitor the power supply output current using digital-panel-meters. The second improvement is a new PLC-based control system for the NC magnet power supplies. We will also discuss the actual implementation of these improvements.

Slides TUCOCA10 [2.595 MB]

WECOBA04

Effective End-to-end Management of Data Acquisition and Analysis for X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy

detector, photon, experiment, real-time

1004

F. Khan, J.P. Hammonds, S. Narayanan, A. Sandy, N. Schwarz
ANL, Argonne, USA

Funding: Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
Low latency between data acquisition and analysis is of critical importance to any experiment. The combination of a faster parallel algorithm and a data pipeline for connecting disparate components (detectors, clusters, file formats) enabled us to greatly enhance the operational efficiency of the x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy experiment facility at the Advanced Photon Source. The improved workflow starts with raw data (120 MB/s) streaming directly from the detector camera, through an on-the-fly discriminator implemented in firmware to Hadoop’s distributed file system in a structured HDF5 data format. The user then triggers the MapReduce-based parallel analysis. For effective bookkeeping and data management, the provenance information and reduced results are added to the original HDF5 file. Finally, the data pipeline triggers user specific software for visualizing the data. The whole process is completed shortly after data acquisition – a significant improvement of operation over previous setup. The faster turn-around time helps scientists to make near real-time adjustments to the experiments.

Slides WECOBA04 [9.540 MB]

THCOAAB01

A Scalable and Homogeneous Web-Based Solution for Presenting CMS Control System Data

controls, interface, software, detector

1040

L. Masetti, O. Chaze, J.A. Coarasa, C. Deldicque, M. Dobson, A.D. Dupont, D. Gigi, F. Glege, R. Gomez-Reino, C. Hartl, F. Meijers, E. Meschi, S. Morovic, C. Nunez-Barranco-Fernandez, L. Orsini, W. Ozga, A. Petrucci, G. Polese, A. Racz, H. Sakulin, C. Schwick, A.C. Spataru, C.C. Wakefield, P. Zejdi
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
G. Bauer, C. Paus, O. Raginel, F. Stoeckli, K. Sumorok
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
U. Behrens
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
J. Branson, S. Cittolin, A. Holzner, M. Pieri, M. Sani
UCSD, La Jolla, California, USA
S. Erhan
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
R.K. Mommsen, V. O'Dell
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

The Control System of the CMS experiment ensures the monitoring and safe operation of over 1M parameters. The high demand for access to online and historical Control System Data calls for a scalable solution combining multiple data sources. The advantage of a Web solution is that data can be accessed from everywhere with no additional software. Moreover, existing visualization libraries can be reused to achieve a user-friendly and effective data presentation. Access to the online information is provided with minimal impact on the running control system by using a common cache in order to be independent of the number of users. Historical data archived by the SCADA software is accessed via an Oracle Database. The web interfaces provide mostly a read-only access to data but some commands are also allowed. Moreover, developers and experts use web interfaces to deploy the control software and administer the SCADA projects in production. By using an enterprise portal, we profit from single sign-on and role-based access control. Portlets maintained by different developers are centrally integrated into dynamic pages, resulting in a consistent user experience.

Slides THCOAAB01 [1.814 MB]

THCOAAB03

Bringing Control System User Interfaces to the Web

controls, interface, EPICS, network

1048

X.H. Chen, K.-U. Kasemir
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Funding: SNS is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the U.S. Department of Energy
With the evolution of web based technologies, especially HTML5[1], it becomes possible to create web-based control system user interfaces (UI) that are cross-browser and cross-device compatible. This article describes two technologies that facilitate this goal. The first one is the WebOPI [2], which can seamlessly display CSS BOY[3] Operator Interfaces (OPI) in web browsers without modification to the original OPI file. The WebOPI leverages the powerful graphical editing capabilities of BOY, it provides the convenience of re-using existing OPI files. On the other hand, it uses auto-generated JavaScript and a generic communication mechanism between the web browser and web server. It is not optimized for a control system, which results in unnecessary network traffic and resource usage. Our second technology is the WebSocket-based Process Data Access (WebPDA). It is a protocol that provides efficient control system data communication using WebSockets[4], so that users can create web-based control system UIs using standard web page technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The protocol is control system independent, so it potentially can support any type of control system.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5
[2]https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/cs-studio/wiki/webopi
[3]https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/cs-studio/wiki/BOY
[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket

Slides THCOAAB03 [1.768 MB]

THPPC006

REMBRANDT - REMote Beam instRumentation And Network Diagnosis Tool

controls, database, monitoring, network

1103

T. Hoffmann, H. Bräuning
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

As with any other large accelerator complex in operation today, the beam instrumentation devices and associated data acquisition components for the coming FAIR accelerators will be distributed over a large area and partially installed in inaccessible radiation exposed areas. Besides operation of the device itself, like acquisition of data, it is mandatory to control also the supporting LAN based components like VME/μTCA crates, front-end computers (FEC), middle ware servers and more. Fortunately many COTS systems provide means for remote control and monitoring using a variety of standardized protocols like SNMP, IPMI or iAMT. REMBRANDT is a Java framework, which allows the authorized user to monitor and control remote systems while hiding the underlying protocols and connection information such as ip addresses, user-ids and passwords. Beneath voltage and current control, the main features are the remote power switching of the systems and the reverse telnet boot process observation of FECs. REMBRANDT is designed to be easily extensible with new protocols and features. The software concept, including the client-server part and the database integration, will be presented.

Poster THPPC006 [3.139 MB]

THPPC037

EPICS-based Control System for New Skew Quadrupole Magnets in J-PARC MR

controls, PLC, EPICS, quadrupole

1168

K.C. Sato
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
S. Igarashi
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
N. Kamikubota, J. Takano, S. Yamada, N. Yamamoto
J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
S.Y. Yoshida
Kanto Information Service (KIS), Accelerator Group, Ibaraki, Japan

In J-PARC Main Ring (MR), a control system for new skew quadrupole magnets has been constructed. This system is based on EPICS　(Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System). The system comprises a YOKOGAWA F3RP61-2L (a PLC controller running Linux), a function generator (Tektronix AFG3000), and a commercial bipolar-DC Amplifier. The function generator is controlled using VXI-11 protocol over Ethernet, and the amplifier is connected to PLC I/O modules with hardwire. Both devices are controlled by the F3RP61-2L. The Function Generator produces a ramp waveform at each machine cycle of 2.48 seconds. The DC amplifire drives the magnet. The control system for skew quadrupole magnets was developed in 2012, and has been in opeation since January, 2013.

Poster THPPC037 [1.027 MB]

THPPC081

High-level Functions for Modern Control Systems: A Practical Example

controls, experiment, framework, monitoring

1262

F. Varela, W.J. Fabian, P. Golonka, M. Gonzalez-Berges, L.B. Petrova
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Modern control systems make wide usage of different IT technologies and complex computational techniques to render the data gathered accessible from different locations and devices, as well as to understand and even predict the behavior of the systems under supervision. The Industrial Controls Engineering (ICE) Group of the EN Department develops and maintains more than 150 vital controls applications for a number of strategic sectors at CERN like the accelerator, the experiments and the central infrastructure systems. All these applications are supervised by MOON, a very successful central monitoring and configuration tool developed by the group that has been in operation 24/7 since 2011. The basic functionality of MOON was presented in previous editions of these series of conferences. In this contribution we focus on the high-level functionality recently added to the tool to grant access to multiple users through the web and mobile devices to the data gathered, as well as a first attempt to data analytics with the goal of identifying useful information to support developers during the optimization of their systems and help in the daily operations of the systems.

THCOBA01

Evolution of the Monitoring in the LHCb Online System

monitoring, database, interface, distributed

1408

C. Haen, E. Bonaccorsi, N. Neufeld
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The LHCb online system relies on a large and heterogeneous I.T. infrastructure : it comprises more than 2000 servers and embedded systems and more than 200 network devices. The low level monitoring of the equipment was originally done with Nagios. In 2011, we replaced the single Nagios instance with a distributed Icinga setup presented at ICALEPCS 2011. This paper will present with more hindsight the improvements we observed, as well as problems encountered. Finally, we will describe some of our prospects for the future after the Long Shutdown period, namely Shinken and Ganglia.

Slides THCOBA01 [1.426 MB]

FRCOAAB07

Operational Experience with the ALICE Detector Control System

detector, controls, operation, experiment

1485

P.Ch. Chochula, A. Augustinus, A.N. Kurepin, M. Lechman, O. Pinazza, P. Rosinský
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
A.N. Kurepin
RAS/INR, Moscow, Russia
O. Pinazza
INFN-Bologna, Bologna, Italy

The first LHC run period, lasting 4 year brought exciting physics results and new insight into the mysteries of the matter. One of the key components in this achievements were the detectors, which provided unprecedented amounts of data of the highest quality. The control systems, responsible for their smooth and safe operation, played a key role in this success. The design of the ALICE Detector Control System (DCS) started more than 12 years ago. High level of standardization and pragmatic design led to a reliable and stable system, which allowed for efficient experiment operation. In this presentation we summarize the overall architectural principles of the system, the standardized components and procedures. The original expectations and plans are compared with the final design. Focus is given on the operational procedures, which evolved with time. We explain, how a single operator can control and protect a complex device like ALICE, with millions of readout channels and several thousand control devices and boards. We explain what we learned during the first years of LHC operation and which improvements will be implemented to provide excellent DCS service during the next years.

Slides FRCOAAB07 [7.856 MB]