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H.Schmickler - 3 The main criteria for the new AB-CO organigram Sections of more equal size. More sections in order to reduce the size of each section …going very far in this approach would produce other negative effects …in the end we go from 6 to 8 sections Reduction of section interdependencies: Section types core activity services interlocks Succession planning for next 3 years Avoidance of double efforts (example: PLCs) Steady replacement of piquet members by newcomers. Sections localized in a single place : significant extension of pavilion move of people from 864 to the pavilion
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H.Schmickler [email protected] 1
Commitments and Major Issues on Controls Services
H.Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 2
Outline
New AB-CO organigram List of AB-CO activities/projects for the
LHC Particular issues Calendar of upcoming events
Although Chamonix@Divonne is meant to be a technical/scientific meeting, with the charge of the session chairman this talk is almost a
“2006-MAPS” of AB-CO….
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The main criteria for the new AB-CO organigram Sections of more equal size. More sections in order to reduce the size of each section
…going very far in this approach would produce other negative effects…in the end we go from 6 to 8 sections
Reduction of section interdependencies: Section types
core activityservicesinterlocks
Succession planning for next 3 years Avoidance of double efforts (example: PLCs) Steady replacement of piquet members by newcomers. Sections localized in a single place :
significant extension of pavilion move of people from 864 to the pavilion
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stays
stays
Merged into 3 other sections
splits into 2 splits
into 2splits into 2
(+ several persons merged into other
sections)
2005 AB-CO Organigram
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New AB-CO Organigram
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General comments for the following slides: The AB-CO group has just recently been restructured in order to
meet the requirements of the LHC without asking (and getting) the additional staff as requested during the past 2 years
AB-CO gives highest priority to the Controls core activity, i.e. Applications, Business layer and services, Front-Ends, Timing
The presented “prioritized and staged” list of requirements does not help, since almost everything is at highest priority. Since this mechanism does not work, the result will not be “planified regulation”, but “regulation by saturation”.
The real bootle-neck are the applications, additional temporary human resources are needed (and hard to find). Still a much closer collaboration between AB-CO and AB-OP is needed.
In the following table the definition is as follows:For every activity, for which there is no particular “issue” mentioned,
this means, that AB-CO will deliver the requested functionality in time.
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Activities/Projects in the AP sectionE. Hatziangeli
Project / Activity Technical responsible
Description Comment/Issues
Common Console Manager
Véronique Paris Console Manager for the CCC 1) Non CERN staff in charge of core operational software (in purple)
2) Additional 2(staff) +3(LSA-PA) + 2(HC-PA) still expected
3) Additional effort needed to integrate operators doing software production as 2nd jobs
4) Space problem in the Pavilion to be solved (extension expected to be in place in July 2006)
More details in Eugenia’s talk
Fixed Displays Jakob Wozniak Fixed displays and fixed displays components for HWC and LHC OP
JAPC Roman Gorgonosov
Common access to equipment in Front-Ends
Java GUI components
Greg Kruk Software components for building Java Graphical User Interfaces.
LASER Katarina Sigerud Alarm system for all CERN machines and services.
Logging Marine Pace Logging applications for SPS, LEIR, HCW and LHC
LSA effort inside AB-CO
To be defined inside AB-CO in February 2006
Core software for LHC/LEIR & for LHC HWC
LEIR controls Marine Pace Coordination of the controls project for LEIR
LEIR applications Vito Baggiolini LEIR application software for operations
On-line monitoring
Jakob Wozniak Measurements for Fixed Displays, teletext, SDDS, logging
Sequencer François Chevrier Sequencing tasks for LHC HWC
SIS Vito Baggiolini Redevelopment of the Software Interlock System
OASIS Stéphane Deghaye Analog signal observation system for LEIR, LHC, replacing nAos for other machines
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Activities/Projects in the DM sectionR. Billen
Project / Activity
Technical responsible Description Comment/Issues
Logging Service
Chris Roderick
Reception, storage and making available time-dependent data from the LHC or any of the LHC components, equipment or beam related, throughout the LHC lifecycle.
Between these services the data is linked and shared: e.g. physical characteristics of the assets impact on operational settings and measurements.
Close collaboration with the equipment groups is vital to adequately model and correctly capture the data.
The information needs to be correct and maintained as much as the equipment itself.
Measurement Service
Chris Roderick
Similar as Logging Service with more frequent and rapid transfers of short-lived data, serving as temporary buffering with persistence for Java measurement applications.
Controls Configuration Management
Maciej Peryt
Topology, relations and description of the controls infrastructure: application programs, servers, front-end computers with hardware components and software devices; including interfaces to maintain the information. For LHC the software device implementation is FESA.
Layout Management
Pascal Le Roux
Topology, relations and description of LHC layout components: functional positions of the LHC machine, electrical circuits and electronic racks; including navigation from different viewpoints and interfaces to MAD and DMU.
Asset management
Zory Zaharieva
Registering and keeping track of physical equipment throughout its lifecycle from design, manufacturing, test, commissioning to operation and finally destruction.
Naming Service
Ronny Billen
Identification (naming) is a prerequisite for all data management services, from conceptual design, drawings, layout components to physical equipment.
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Activities/Projects in the FE section M. van den Eynden
Project / Activity Technical responsible
Description Comment
Front-end Controls Hardware Procurement for the Department
G.Surback Department wide VME, cPCI and PC HW procurement, installation and maintenance (processors, crates, remote reset, terminal services)
CERN World FIP activity
R.Brun WorldFIP network infrastructure installation, commissioning and maintenance
LHC control system installation
C.Dehavay Department wide LHC control system installation coordination
Timing distribution
R.Chery Timing distribution HW infrastructure installation and maintenance (copper & Fiber network)
Small disclaimer:Hardware Installation only
Front ends operating system
N. De Metz-Noblat Front ends operating system, system administration and diagnostics
FESA To be defined soon
Front-ends software architecture; development & support Technology defined, deployment as departmental service is the issue for 2006.
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Activities/Projects in the HT sectionJ. Serrano
Project / Activity Technical responsible Description Comments/Issues
General Machine Timing(GMT) generation
J. Lewis technical specs for LHC not finalizedIntegration of timing in LSA is a big issue for SPS and LHC
Beam Synchronous Timing(BST) generation
P. Alvarez share of responsibility between CO and BDI?
General Machine Timing(GMT) reception
I. Kozsar
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Activities/Projects in the IN sectionP. Charrue
Project / Activity Technical responsible Description Comments/Issues
File & application servers A. Bland/E. Genuardi
Operational consoles P. Charrue/E. Bournonville
Monitoring, support & maintenance A. Bland
LHC test benches support M. Bjork
Video/Voice and CCC infrastructure D. Bakker/R.Ballet-Thouble
AB desktop support P. Potdevin/P. Charrue Problem of continuity after departure of P. Potdevin
CMW K.Kostro Controls middleware work on BI data concentrators not assigned yet
Remote access / CNIC P. Charrue Need general policy
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Activities/Projects in the IS sectionPh. Gayet
Project / Activity Technical responsible
Description Comments/Issues
UNICOS H. Milcent CERN wide framework for PLC work
Support for UNICOS applications developed within equipment groups
P.DurandC.H.Sicard
Cryogenics application for ring (AT-CR), Cryogenic application for experiments, experimental magnets
PVSS application support E.Milcent Activity centered on AT-VAC
PLC small applications, development and CERN wide support
J.Brahy
Automated configuration of communication PLC-FESA
P.Gayet
Hardware commissioning support P.Gayet
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Activities/Projects in the MA sectionA. Rijllart
Project / Activity Technical responsible
Description Comments/Issues
PMA H. Reymond Post Mortem Analysis software
LV-OASIS interface A. Raimondo LabVIEW - OASIS interface
FAME C. Charrondière Fast Measurement Systems for Test Benches
MAR A. Raimondo Magnet Rescue Factory systems
SM18 test systems A. Raimondo SM18 magnet test systems and analysis
Test systems in industry A. Rijllart Test systems in magnet assembly firms Corrector tests in Bloc 4 and warm measurements H. Reymond
Corrector test systems and warm magnet measurements
Insertion Quadrupoles and SSS measurements C. Charrondière
Laser tracker systems for geometric and magnetic meas.
Cable and Busbar test systems E. Michel SC cable quench test and Bus-bar test systems
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Activities/Projects in the MI sectionB. Puccio
Project / Activity Technical responsible Description Comments/Issues
BIC B. Todd Beam interlock systems no CERN staff assigned to this important activity
PIC M. Zerlauth Powering interlock system
WIC P. Dahlen Warm magnet interlock system
FMCM M. Zerlauth Fast magnet current change monitors (DESY collaboration)
Fewer units than expected for 2006, full lot available for July 2007
SLP B. Puccio Safe LHC parameters generation
SLP J.Serrano (section HT) Safe LHC parameters transmission
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Activities/Projects continued
Project / Activity Technical responsible Comments/Issues
RT feedback M.Jonker decision end January 2006
HWC Controls Coordination R.Lauckner
Collimation supervisory process environmental data management
A solution for collimator controls has been proposed last Friday by AB-CO. This solution still needs to be decided in its details.
Sector test controls coordination NN candidate to be found inside AB-CO
Post Mortem Project R.Lauckner
Machine Protection R.Schmidt
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Particular Issues- completely uncovered activities: none- activities with critical HR coverage- software release policy- performance issues of LHC control system: AB-CO needs the deadline of the sector test for major
validation/tests on scalability
- plan B: none
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LHC Activities in AB-CO with critical HR coverage
Predominately: application software- CERN staff missing to cover and assure continuity on critical core systems- 3 (LSA) + 2 (HWC) temporary programmers needed: very difficult to get people with the right profile and who at the same time accept to be paid as project associate.- space and coordination issues AB-CO and AB-OP
Beam interlock controller: covered, but not by CERN staff
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LHC control system Architecture
Datastore
Devices
accsoft-settings
macsy-generation
macsy-trim
macsy-sequence
macsy-exploitation
accsoft-optics
JAPCcmw-rda
JAPCcmwrdaJAPC
HibernateDAO
JAPC
JAPCremoteclient
macsyclient
Remote
HTTP
Layer
macsyclientimpl
Business Tier (Web Container)
Appli-cations
Client Tier
JAPC remote server
Parameters concentration
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Software release policy FESA framework: Deliberate choice for a heavy
versioning system with well announced and controlled version releases. Intensive testing of new functionality (presently about 2 weeks!) before release. Very slow reactivity.
Applications: Powerful versioning system in place, which allows AB-OP to choose between previous/present/new version of application code.Still: no deployment of quick fixes without going through the release procedure
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Performance issues of the LHC controls system Still doubts expressed by some “field experts” on the
performance of the application servers under full and realistic load of JAVA based programs. In case of problems this can be fixed by buying more hardware.
Scalability of the controls system: Big issue: A realistic test would mean a concerted effort of the whole department. There is clearly no time to organize this in addition. We NEED the sector test as deadline and as natural concerted effort of the department.If the system does not scale, fixes by reprogramming certain services have to be developed!
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Calendar of upcoming events:
Until March 2006: AB-CO responsible (see tables) agrees with equipment groups on time scales for the availability of hardware for system tests.
February 2006: AB-CO proposes a “2-3 half day workshop” to finalize the design of the full LHC+SPS controls system. This event has to put an end to all the recurrent discussions on “old PS way of doing controls” versus “old SL way of doing controls”.Main actors: AB-CO + AB-OP + one rep. of each AB-equipment group
February 2006: FESA release 2.7 with the functionality needed for machines start-up 2006
Spring 2006: Machines start-up from the CCC.