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@inproceedings{clemens:icalepcs2023-thpdp079, author = {A.J. Clemens and D. Devereux and A. Magro}, title = {{Integration of Bespoke Daq Software with Tango Controls in the SKAO Software Framework: From Problems to Progress}}, % booktitle = {Proc. ICALEPCS'23}, booktitle = {Proc. 19th Int. Conf. Accel. Large Exp. Phys. Control Syst. (ICALEPCS'23)}, eventdate = {2023-10-09/2023-10-13}, pages = {1533--1535}, paper = {THPDP079}, language = {english}, keywords = {TANGO, controls, GPU, data-acquisition, software}, venue = {Cape Town, South Africa}, series = {International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems}, number = {19}, publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland}, month = {02}, year = {2024}, issn = {2226-0358}, isbn = {978-3-95450-238-7}, doi = {10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP079}, url = {https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thpdp079.pdf}, 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.}}, }