ICALEPCS2011 - List of Authors (Mexner, W.)

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TANGO Integration of a SIMATIC WinCC Open Architecture SCADA System at ANKA

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T. Spangenberg, K. Cerff, W. Mexner
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
V. Kaiser
Softwareschneiderei GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany

The WinCC OA supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system provides at the ANKA synchrotron facility a powerful and very scalable tool to manage the enormous variety of technical equipment relevant for house keeping and beamline operation. Crucial to the applicability of a SCADA system for the ANKA synchrotron are the provided options to integrate it into other control concepts even if they are working e.g. on different time scales, managing concepts, and control standards. Especially these latter aspects result into different approaches for controlling concepts for technical services, storage ring, and beamlines. The beamline control at ANKA is mainly based on TANGO and SPEC, which has been expanded by TANGO server capabilities. This approach implies the essential need to provide a stable and fast link, that does not increase the dead time of a measurement, to the slower WinCC OA SCADA system. The open architecture of WinCC OA offers a smooth integration in both directions and therefore gives options to combine potential advantages, e.g. native hardware drivers or convenient graphical skills. The implemented solution will be presented and discussed at selected examples.

Poster WEPKN020 [0.378 MB]

THCHAUST02

Large Scale Data Facility for Data Intensive Synchrotron Beamlines

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R. Stotzka, A. Garcia, V. Hartmann, T. Jejkal, H. Pasic, A. Streit, J. van Wezel
KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
D. Haas, W. Mexner, T. dos Santos Rolo
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

ANKA is a large scale facility of the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers in Germany located at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. As the synchrotron light source it is providing light from hard X-rays to the far-infrared for research and technology. It is serving as a user facility for the national and international scientific community currently producing 100 TB of data per year. Within the next two years a couple of additional data intensive beamlines will be operational producing up to 1.6 PB per year. These amounts of data have to be stored and provided on demand to the users. The Large Scale Data Facility LSDF is located on the same campus as ANKA. It is a data service facility dedicated for data intensive scientific experiments. Currently storage of 4 PB for unstructured and structured data and a HADOOP cluster as a computing resource for data intensive applications are available. Within the campus experiments and the main large data producing facilities are connected via 10 GE network links. An additional 10 GE link exists to the internet. Tools for an easy and transparent access allow scientists to use the LSDF without bothering with the internal structures and technologies. Open interfaces and APIs support a variety of access methods to the highly available services for high throughput data applications. In close cooperation with ANKA the LSDF provides assistance to efficiently organize data and meta data structures, and develops and deploys community specific software running on the directly connected computing infrastructure.

Slides THCHAUST02 [1.294 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
WEPKN020	TANGO Integration of a SIMATIC WinCC Open Architecture SCADA System at ANKA	749
	T. Spangenberg, K. Cerff, W. Mexner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany V. Kaiser Softwareschneiderei GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany
	The WinCC OA supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system provides at the ANKA synchrotron facility a powerful and very scalable tool to manage the enormous variety of technical equipment relevant for house keeping and beamline operation. Crucial to the applicability of a SCADA system for the ANKA synchrotron are the provided options to integrate it into other control concepts even if they are working e.g. on different time scales, managing concepts, and control standards. Especially these latter aspects result into different approaches for controlling concepts for technical services, storage ring, and beamlines. The beamline control at ANKA is mainly based on TANGO and SPEC, which has been expanded by TANGO server capabilities. This approach implies the essential need to provide a stable and fast link, that does not increase the dead time of a measurement, to the slower WinCC OA SCADA system. The open architecture of WinCC OA offers a smooth integration in both directions and therefore gives options to combine potential advantages, e.g. native hardware drivers or convenient graphical skills. The implemented solution will be presented and discussed at selected examples.
	Poster WEPKN020 [0.378 MB]

THCHAUST02	Large Scale Data Facility for Data Intensive Synchrotron Beamlines	1216
	R. Stotzka, A. Garcia, V. Hartmann, T. Jejkal, H. Pasic, A. Streit, J. van Wezel KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany D. Haas, W. Mexner, T. dos Santos Rolo Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
	ANKA is a large scale facility of the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers in Germany located at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. As the synchrotron light source it is providing light from hard X-rays to the far-infrared for research and technology. It is serving as a user facility for the national and international scientific community currently producing 100 TB of data per year. Within the next two years a couple of additional data intensive beamlines will be operational producing up to 1.6 PB per year. These amounts of data have to be stored and provided on demand to the users. The Large Scale Data Facility LSDF is located on the same campus as ANKA. It is a data service facility dedicated for data intensive scientific experiments. Currently storage of 4 PB for unstructured and structured data and a HADOOP cluster as a computing resource for data intensive applications are available. Within the campus experiments and the main large data producing facilities are connected via 10 GE network links. An additional 10 GE link exists to the internet. Tools for an easy and transparent access allow scientists to use the LSDF without bothering with the internal structures and technologies. Open interfaces and APIs support a variety of access methods to the highly available services for high throughput data applications. In close cooperation with ANKA the LSDF provides assistance to efficiently organize data and meta data structures, and develops and deploys community specific software running on the directly connected computing infrastructure.
	Slides THCHAUST02 [1.294 MB]