Oct 3 – 5, 2018
INFN-LNF, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

High availability control and data acquisition for fusion experiments

Oct 5, 2018, 6:00 PM
20m
Bruno Touschek Auditorium (INFN-LNF, Italy)

Bruno Touschek Auditorium

INFN-LNF, Italy

Via E. Fermi, 40 I-00044 Frascati

Speaker

Dr Jorge Sousa (Instituto Superior Técnico)

Description

Near steady-state operation of plasmas in fusion machines controlled by systems with high acquisition channel density require much reduced downtime (High Availability or HA). To achieve adequate HA for scalable, high performance systems, various techniques can be applied: • Serviceability - remote hardware management, modules hot-swap, modularity, firmware update support; • Fault detection and mitigation; • Redundancy - sensor level, system level, software/firmware level, scalable redundancy schemes (1 + 1 up to N + M); • Resilience to errors, EM fields and neutrons; • Transposition of sensitive hardware from hazardous radiation locations; • Time-stamping (absolute time applicable standards: IEEE-1588, White Rabbit and IRIG), synchronization and real-time event management embedded on the acquisition hardware; • Choice of instrumentation standards, based on Modularity, Expandability, Hardware Management capability, embedded HA schemes, data processing/transfer capability; • Software - “universal” common device driver layer supporting the above mechanisms/methods; high performance and Computational power techniques to process real-time complex algorithms (e.g. in GPU, FPGA); centralized hardware management including firmware updating methods. An overview of the application of these techniques in prototypes of systems targeting current and future fusion experiments will be presented, including the hardware, gate-ware and software development details.

Primary author

Dr Jorge Sousa (Instituto Superior Técnico)

Co-authors

Dr Ana Fernandes (Instituto Superior Técnico) Dr António Batista (Instituto Superior Técnico) Dr António Rodrigues (Instituto Superior Técnico) Prof. Bernardo Carvalho (Instituto Superior Técnico) Dr Bruno Gonçalves (Instituto Superior Técnico) Mr Bruno Santos (Instituto Superior Técnico) Mr João Fortunato (Instituto Superior Técnico) Dr Miguel Correia (Instituto Superior Técnico) Dr Nuno Cruz (Instituto Superior Técnico) Mr Paulo Carvalho (Instituto Superior Técnico) Dr Rita Pereira (Instituto Superior Técnico) Mr Álvaro Combo (Instituto Superior Técnico)

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