Speaker
Gianfranco Vecchio
(LNS)
Description
My presentation will describe the design and the development of an innovative management software for the accelerators beamlines at INFN-LNS. The Graphical User Interface, the data exchange protocol, the software functionality and the hardware will be illustrated.
Compared to traditional platforms for the accelerators console, at INFN-LNS we have developed a new concept of control system and data acquisition framework, based on a data structures server which so far has never been used for supervisory control.
We have chosen Redis as a highly scalable data store, shared by multiple and different processes. With such system it is possible to communicate cross-platform, cross-server or cross-application in a very simple way, using very lightweight libraries.
A complex and highly ergonomic Graphic User Interface allows to control all the parameters with a user-friendly interactive approach, ensuring high functionality so that the beam operator can visually work in a realistic environment.
All the information related to the beamline elements involved in the beam transport, can be stored in a centralized database, with suitable criteria to have a historical database.
Primary author
Gianfranco Vecchio
(LNS)
Co-authors
Benedetto Filippo Diana
(LNS)
Enrico Furia
(LNS)
Luigi Giovanni Cosentino
(LNS)
Salvatore Aurnia
(LNS)
Salvatore Pulvirenti
(LNS)
Salvo Rita Cavallaro
(LNS)
