ICALEPCS2023 - Table of Session: MO1BC (Status Report 1)

Paper	Title	Page
MO1BCO01	The Intelligent Observatory	1
	S.B. Potter, S. Chandra, N. Erasmus, M. Hlakola, R.P. Julie, H. Worters, C. van Gend SAAO, Observatory, South Africa
	The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) has embarked on an ambitious initiative to upgrade its telescopes, instruments, and data analysis capabilities, facilitating their intelligent integration and seamless coordination. This endeavour aims not only to improve efficiency and agility but also to unlock exciting scientific possibilities within the realms of multi-messenger and time-domain astronomy. The program encompasses hardware enhancements enabling autonomous operations, complemented by the development of sophisticated software solutions. Intelligent algorithms have been meticulously crafted to promptly and autonomously respond to real-time alerts from telescopes worldwide and space-based observatories. Overseeing this sophisticated framework is the Observatory Control System, actively managing the observing queue in real-time. This presentation will provide a summary of the program’s notable achievements thus far, with a specific focus on the successful completion and full operational readiness of one of the SAAO telescopes.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO1BCO01
About •	Received ※ 31 October 2023 — Revised ※ 10 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 06 December 2023 — Issued ※ 07 December 2023
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MO1BCO02	ITER Controls Approaching One Million Integrated EPICS Process Variables	6
	A. Wallander, B. Bauvir ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France
	The ITER Tokamak is currently being assembled in southern France. In parallel, the supporting systems have completed installation and are under commissioning or operation. Over the last couple of years the electrical distribution, building services, liquid & gas, cooling water, reactive power compensation and cryoplant have been integrated, adding up to close to one million process variables. Those systems are operated, or under commissioning, from a temporary main control room or local control rooms close to the equipment using an integrated infrastructure. The ITER control system is therefore in production. As the ITER procurement is 90% in-kind, a major challenge has been the integration of the various systems provided by suppliers from the ITER members. Standardization, CODAC Core System software distribution, training and coaching have all played a positive role. Nevertheless, the integration has been more difficult than foreseen and the central team has been forced to rework much of the delivered software. In this paper we report on the current status of the ITER integrated control system with emphasize on lessons learned from integration of in-kind contributions.
	Slides MO1BCO02 [3.521 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO1BCO02
About •	Received ※ 27 September 2023 — Revised ※ 07 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 15 November 2023 — Issued ※ 07 December 2023
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MO1BCO03	LCLS-II Accelerator Control System Status	12
	D. Rogind, S. Kwon SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: US DOE The Linac Coherent Light Source complex at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has been upgraded to add a new superconducting accelerator with beam rates up to 1MHz. Though the majority of the more than twenty accelerator control systems are based on LCLS designs, to accommodate the increase in repetition rate from 120Hz to 1MHz, many of the diagnostics and global control systems are upgraded to high performance platforms with standalone CPUs running linuxRT to host the EPICS based controls. With installation and checkouts for control systems completing in 2022, the phased approach to integration and commissioning recently completed with demonstration of the threshold key performance parameters and first light occurring in the Summer of 2023. This paper provides an overview of the LCLS-II accelerator control system architecture, upgrades, the multi-year installation, checkout, integration, commissioning, and lessons learned.
	Slides MO1BCO03 [2.380 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO1BCO03
About •	Received ※ 02 October 2023 — Revised ※ 10 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 19 December 2023 — Issued ※ 21 December 2023
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MO1BCO04	EIC Controls System Architecture Status and Plans	19
	J.P. Jamilkowski, S.L. Clark, M.R. Costanzo, T. D’Ottavio, M. Harvey, K. Mernick, S. Nemesure, F. Severino, K. Shroff BNL, Upton, New York, USA L.R. Dalesio Osprey DCS LLC, Ocean City, USA K. Kulmatycski, C. Montag, V.H. Ranjbar, K.S. Smith Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Electron-Ion Collider, Upton, New York, USA
	Funding: Contract Number DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the auspices of the US Department of Energy 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.
	Slides MO1BCO04 [1.458 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO1BCO04
About •	Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 08 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 14 November 2023 — Issued ※ 11 December 2023
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The Intelligent Observatory

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S.B. Potter, S. Chandra, N. Erasmus, M. Hlakola, R.P. Julie, H. Worters, C. van Gend
SAAO, Observatory, South Africa

The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) has embarked on an ambitious initiative to upgrade its telescopes, instruments, and data analysis capabilities, facilitating their intelligent integration and seamless coordination. This endeavour aims not only to improve efficiency and agility but also to unlock exciting scientific possibilities within the realms of multi-messenger and time-domain astronomy. The program encompasses hardware enhancements enabling autonomous operations, complemented by the development of sophisticated software solutions. Intelligent algorithms have been meticulously crafted to promptly and autonomously respond to real-time alerts from telescopes worldwide and space-based observatories. Overseeing this sophisticated framework is the Observatory Control System, actively managing the observing queue in real-time. This presentation will provide a summary of the program’s notable achievements thus far, with a specific focus on the successful completion and full operational readiness of one of the SAAO telescopes.

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Received ※ 31 October 2023 — Revised ※ 10 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 06 December 2023 — Issued ※ 07 December 2023

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MO1BCO02

ITER Controls Approaching One Million Integrated EPICS Process Variables

6

A. Wallander, B. Bauvir
ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France

The ITER Tokamak is currently being assembled in southern France. In parallel, the supporting systems have completed installation and are under commissioning or operation. Over the last couple of years the electrical distribution, building services, liquid & gas, cooling water, reactive power compensation and cryoplant have been integrated, adding up to close to one million process variables. Those systems are operated, or under commissioning, from a temporary main control room or local control rooms close to the equipment using an integrated infrastructure. The ITER control system is therefore in production. As the ITER procurement is 90% in-kind, a major challenge has been the integration of the various systems provided by suppliers from the ITER members. Standardization, CODAC Core System software distribution, training and coaching have all played a positive role. Nevertheless, the integration has been more difficult than foreseen and the central team has been forced to rework much of the delivered software. In this paper we report on the current status of the ITER integrated control system with emphasize on lessons learned from integration of in-kind contributions.

Slides MO1BCO02 [3.521 MB]

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Received ※ 27 September 2023 — Revised ※ 07 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 15 November 2023 — Issued ※ 07 December 2023

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MO1BCO03

LCLS-II Accelerator Control System Status

12

D. Rogind, S. Kwon
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: US DOE
The Linac Coherent Light Source complex at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has been upgraded to add a new superconducting accelerator with beam rates up to 1MHz. Though the majority of the more than twenty accelerator control systems are based on LCLS designs, to accommodate the increase in repetition rate from 120Hz to 1MHz, many of the diagnostics and global control systems are upgraded to high performance platforms with standalone CPUs running linuxRT to host the EPICS based controls. With installation and checkouts for control systems completing in 2022, the phased approach to integration and commissioning recently completed with demonstration of the threshold key performance parameters and first light occurring in the Summer of 2023. This paper provides an overview of the LCLS-II accelerator control system architecture, upgrades, the multi-year installation, checkout, integration, commissioning, and lessons learned.

Slides MO1BCO03 [2.380 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO1BCO03

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Received ※ 02 October 2023 — Revised ※ 10 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 19 December 2023 — Issued ※ 21 December 2023

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MO1BCO04

EIC Controls System Architecture Status and Plans

19

J.P. Jamilkowski, S.L. Clark, M.R. Costanzo, T. D’Ottavio, M. Harvey, K. Mernick, S. Nemesure, F. Severino, K. Shroff
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
L.R. Dalesio
Osprey DCS LLC, Ocean City, USA
K. Kulmatycski, C. Montag, V.H. Ranjbar, K.S. Smith
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Electron-Ion Collider, Upton, New York, USA

Funding: Contract Number DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the auspices of the US Department of Energy
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.

Slides MO1BCO04 [1.458 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO1BCO04

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Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 08 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 14 November 2023 — Issued ※ 11 December 2023

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