BNL, Upton, New York, USA
Osprey DCS LLC, Ocean City, USA
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Electron-Ion Collider, Upton, New York, USA
Preparations are underway to build the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) once Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) beam operations are end in 2025, providing an enhanced probe into the building blocks of nuclear physics for decades into the future. With commissioning of the new facility in mind, Accelerator Controls will require modernization in order to keep up with recent improvements in the field as well as to match the fundamental requirements of the accelerators that will be constructed. We will describe the status of the Controls System architecture that has been developed and prototyped for EIC, as well as plans for future work. Major influences on the requirements will be discussed, including EIC Common Platform applications as well as our expectation that we’ll need to support a hybrid environment covering both the proprietary RHIC Accelerator Device Object (ADO) environment as well as EPICS.
ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France
Osprey DCS LLC, Ocean City, USA
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
FHI, Berlin, Germany
ESS, Lund, Sweden
Self Employment, Private address, USA
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
After its first release in 2017, EPICS version 7 has been introduced into production at several sites. The central feature of EPICS 7, the support of structured data through the new pvAccess network protocol, has been proven to work in large production systems. EPICS 7 facilitates the implementation of new functionality, including developing AI/ML applications in controls, managing large data volumes, interfacing to middle-layer services, and more. Other features like support for the IPv6 protocol and enhancements to access control have been implemented. Future work includes integrating a refactored API into the core distribution, adding modern network security features, as well as developing new and enhancing existing services that take advantage of these new capabilities. The talk will give an overview of the status of deployments, new additions to the EPICS Core, and an overview of its planned future development.