| Title |
Integration of Bespoke Daq Software with Tango Controls in the SKAO Software Framework: From Problems to Progress |
| Authors |
- A.J. Clemens
OSL, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- D. Devereux
CSIRO, Clayton, Australia
- D. Devereux
SKAO, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
- A. Magro
ISSA, Msida, Malta
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| Abstract |
The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) project is an international effort to build two radio interferometers in South Africa and Australia to form one Observatory monitored and controlled from the global headquarters in the United Kingdom at Jodrell Bank. The Monitoring, Control and Calibration System (MCCS) is the "front-end" management software for the Low telescope which provides monitoring and control capabilities as well as implementing calibration processes and providing complex diagnostics support. Once completed the Low telescope will boast over 130, 000 individual log-periodic antennas and so the scale of the data generated will be huge. It is estimated that an average of 8 terabits per second of data will be transferred from the SKAO telescopes in both countries to Central Processing Facilities (CPFs) located at the telescope sites. In order to keep pace with this magnitude of data production an equally impressive data acquisition (DAQ) system is required. This paper outlines the challenges encountered and solutions adopted whilst incorporating a bespoke DAQ library within the SKAO’s Kubernetes-Tango ecosystem in the MCCS subsystem in order to allow high speed data capture whilst maintaining a consistent deployment experience.
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| Conference |
ICALEPCS2023 |
| Series |
International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (19th) |
| Location |
Cape Town, South Africa |
| Date |
09-13 October 2023 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); Andy Götz (ESRF, Grenoble, France); Johan Venter (SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa); Karen White (SNS, Oak Ridge, TN, USA); Marie Robichon (ESRF, Grenoble, France); Vivienne Rowland (SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-238-7 |
| Online ISSN |
2226-0358 |
| Received |
02 October 2023 |
| Accepted |
08 December 2023 |
| Issued/td>
| 19 December 2023 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP079 |
| Pages |
1533-1535 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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