ICALEPCS2023 - List of Authors (Clemens, A.J.)

Paper	Title	Page
THPDP079	Integration of Bespoke Daq Software with Tango Controls in the SKAO Software Framework: From Problems to Progress	1533
	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
	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.
	Poster THPDP079 [0.981 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP079
About •	Received ※ 02 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 08 December 2023 — Issued ※ 19 December 2023
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Integration of Bespoke Daq Software with Tango Controls in the SKAO Software Framework: From Problems to Progress

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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

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.

Poster THPDP079 [0.981 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP079

About •

Received ※ 02 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 08 December 2023 — Issued ※ 19 December 2023

Cite •

reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)