H.Schmickler 1 Commitments and Major Issues on Controls Services

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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….


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


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


New AB-CO Organigram


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.


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


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.


Activities/Projects in the FE section M. van den Eynden


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.


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


Activities/Projects in the IN sectionP. Charrue


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


Activities/Projects in the IS sectionPh. Gayet


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


Activities/Projects in the MA sectionA. Rijllart


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


Activities/Projects in the MI sectionB. Puccio


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


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


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


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


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


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


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!


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.

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