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Title: Plans for a Collaboratively Developed Distributed Control System for the Spallation Neutron Source

Abstract

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is an accelerator-based pulsed neutron source to be built in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The facility has five major sections - a ''front end'' consisting of a 65 keV H{sup -} ion source followed by a 2.5 MeV RFQ; a 1 GeV linac; a storage ring; a 1MW spallation neutron target (upgradeable to 2 MW); the conventional facilities to support these machines and a suite of neutron scattering instruments to exploit them. These components will be designed and implemented by five collaborating institutions: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Front End), Los Alamos National Laboratory (Linac); Brookhaven National Laboratory (Storage Ring); Argonne National Laboratory (Instruments); and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Neutron Source and Conventional Facilities). It is proposed to implement a fully integrated control system for all aspects of this complex. The system will be developed collaboratively, with some degree of local autonomy for distributed systems, but centralized accountability. Technical integration will be based upon the widely-used EPICS control system toolkit, and a complete set of hardware and software standards. The scope of the integrated control system includes site-wide timing and synchronization, networking and machine protection. This paper discusses the technical and organizational issues of planning a largemore » control system to be developed collaboratively at five different institutions, the approaches being taken to address those issues, as well as some of the particular technical challenges for the SNS control system.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
US Department of Energy (US)
OSTI Identifier:
758952
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-99-1395
TRN: US0004291
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-36
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Particle Accelerator Conference, New York, NY (US), 03/29/1999--04/02/1999; Other Information: PBD: 29 Mar 1999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; ACCELERATORS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ION SOURCES; NEUTRON SOURCES; OAK RIDGE; PLANNING; SAFETY; SCATTERING; SPALLATION; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TARGETS

Citation Formats

DeVan, W R, Gurd, D P, Hammonds, J, Lewis, S A, and Smith, J D. Plans for a Collaboratively Developed Distributed Control System for the Spallation Neutron Source. United States: N. p., 1999. Web.
DeVan, W R, Gurd, D P, Hammonds, J, Lewis, S A, & Smith, J D. Plans for a Collaboratively Developed Distributed Control System for the Spallation Neutron Source. United States.
DeVan, W R, Gurd, D P, Hammonds, J, Lewis, S A, and Smith, J D. 1999. "Plans for a Collaboratively Developed Distributed Control System for the Spallation Neutron Source". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/758952.
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title = {Plans for a Collaboratively Developed Distributed Control System for the Spallation Neutron Source},
author = {DeVan, W R and Gurd, D P and Hammonds, J and Lewis, S A and Smith, J D},
abstractNote = {The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is an accelerator-based pulsed neutron source to be built in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The facility has five major sections - a ''front end'' consisting of a 65 keV H{sup -} ion source followed by a 2.5 MeV RFQ; a 1 GeV linac; a storage ring; a 1MW spallation neutron target (upgradeable to 2 MW); the conventional facilities to support these machines and a suite of neutron scattering instruments to exploit them. These components will be designed and implemented by five collaborating institutions: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Front End), Los Alamos National Laboratory (Linac); Brookhaven National Laboratory (Storage Ring); Argonne National Laboratory (Instruments); and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Neutron Source and Conventional Facilities). It is proposed to implement a fully integrated control system for all aspects of this complex. The system will be developed collaboratively, with some degree of local autonomy for distributed systems, but centralized accountability. Technical integration will be based upon the widely-used EPICS control system toolkit, and a complete set of hardware and software standards. The scope of the integrated control system includes site-wide timing and synchronization, networking and machine protection. This paper discusses the technical and organizational issues of planning a large control system to be developed collaboratively at five different institutions, the approaches being taken to address those issues, as well as some of the particular technical challenges for the SNS control system.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 29 00:00:00 EST 1999},
month = {Mon Mar 29 00:00:00 EST 1999}
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