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| WPO004 |
News from the FAIR Control System under Development |
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- R. Bär, D.H. Beck, C. Betz, J. Fitzek, S. Jülicher, U. Krause, M. Thieme, R. Vincelli
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
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The control system for the FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) accelerator facility is presently under development and implementation. The FAIR accelerators will extend the present GSI accelerator chain, then being used as injector, and provide anti-proton, ion, and rare isotope beams with unprecedented intensity and quality for a variety of research programs. This paper shortly summarizes the general status of the FAIR project and focusses on the progress of the control system design and its implementation. The poster presents the general system architecture and updates on the status of major building blocks of the control system. We highlight the control system implementation efforts for CRYRING, a new accelerator presently under recommissioning at GSI, which will serve as a test-ground for the complete control system stack and evaluation of the new controls concepts.
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Slides WPO004 [1.039 MB]
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| WPO005 |
Progress and Challenges during the Development of the Settings Management System for FAIR |
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- H.C. Hüther, J. Fitzek, R. Müller, D. Ondreka
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
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A few years into development of the new control system for FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), a first version of the new settings management system is available. As a basis, the CERN LSA framework (LHC Software Architecture) is being used and enhanced in collaboration between GSI and CERN. New aspects, like flexible cycle lengths, have already been introduced while concepts for other requirements, like parallel beam operation at FAIR, are being developed. At SIS18, LSA settings management is currently being utilized for testing new machine models and operation modes relevant for FAIR. Based upon experience with SIS18, a generic model for ring accelerators has been created that will be used throughout the new facility. It will also be deployed for commissioning and operation of CRYRING by the end of 2014. During development, new challenges came up. To ease collaboration, the LSA code base has been split into common and institute specific modules. An equivalent solution for the database level is still to be found. Besides technical issues, a data-driven system like LSA requires high-quality data. To ensure this, organizational processes need to be put in place at GSI.
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Poster WPO005 [1.049 MB]
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Benefits, Drawbacks and Challenges During a Collaborative Development of a Settings Management System for CERN and GSI |
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- R. Müller, J. Fitzek, H.C. Hüther
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
- G. Kruk
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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The settings management system LSA (LHC Software Architecture) was originally developed for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). For FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) a renovation of the GSI control system was necessary. When it was decided in 2008 to use the LSA system for settings management for FAIR, the middle management of the two institutes agreed on a collaborative development. This paper highlights the insights gained during the collaboration, from three different perspectives: organizational aspects of the collaboration, like roles that have been established, planned procedures, the preparation of a formal contract and social aspects to keep people working as a team across institutes. It also shows technical benefits and drawbacks that arise from the collaboration for both institutes as well as challenges that are encountered during development. Furthermore, it provides an insight into aspects of the collaboration which were easy to establish and which still take time.
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Slides TCO101 [0.728 MB]
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