The Use of MDSplus on NSTX at PPPL

Technical Report · Wed Mar 06 04:00:00 EST 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/796204· OSTI ID:796204

Davis, W ^[1]; Roney, P; Carroll, T; Gibney, T; Mastrovito, D

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1. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The MDSplus data acquisition system has been used successfully since the 1999 startup of NSTX [National Spherical Torus Experiment] for control, data acquisition, and analysis for diagnostic subsystems. For each plasma ''shot'' on NSTX about 75 MBs of data is acquired and loaded into MDSplus hierarchical data structures in 2-3 minutes. Physicists adapted to the MDSplus software tools with no real difficulty. Some locally developed tools are described. The support from the developers at MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] was timely and insightful. The use of MDSplus has resulted in a significant cost savings for NSTX.

• Research Organization: Princeton Plasma Physics Lab., NJ (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03073
• OSTI ID: 796204
• Report Number(s): PPPL-3678.pdf
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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