What

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Whats Happening on the ILC Controls Front at FNAL
Margaret Votava Fermilab January 9th, 2006
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ILCs and FNALs Top Priority

• Getting a credible cost for construction approval
• Cavity RD
• Controls and LLRF systems are required for this
  RD
• Some LLRF RD is necessary for getting cavity
  test areas working.
• RD for the Controls system itself is vital, but
  it can wait.
• How much controls RD is needed/desired to make
  the test areas work?

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Funding Issues

• Despite priorities, ILC has not allocated nearly
  enough funds for controls support of the cavity
  testing areas, let alone controls RD.
• Controls is not unique. True for other
  infrastructure support as well RF, LLRF,
  instrumentation, etc.
• This is recognized by FNAL and is being ignored
  at the moment. (at least for FTE)
• FNAL SCRF proposal going for DOE funding in
  February
• Approval is critical for NML.
• Schedules are a mess and completely unreliable,
  but will improve

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Where are the Controls Efforts Now

• Global Effort
• WBS exercises and writing RDR, RD project plans,
  etc
• ANL, FNAL, a little SLAC and sometimes DESY and
  KEK (but mostly for LLRF)
• Necessary, but dull
• Test Area Effort
• Vertical Test Stand(s) at IB1
• Horizontal Test Stand at MDB
• Super conduction RF test area at NML
• Cryomodule testing here
• Will have beam
• SLAC and ANL want to be involved at a 0.5 FTE
  level

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Global Controls Effort

• Costing and RDR writing for GDE 1.5 FTE. Enough
  to go to the weekly meetings.
• Jim, Sharon, Brian, Margaret, Vince, Ron, Steve
  Wolbers, Bakul
• Have an RD project plan, but very limited
  funding to work on any of it through FY08.
• High availability both hardware and software.
• Charlies work in ATCA falls in here.
• Phase reference distribution
• Controls system architecture, including gap
  analysis
• Delays probably ok, but there are many things
  that we could be integrating in at NML from the
  get go.
• Maybe we still can with NML delays ?.

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Test Area Effort

• We are looking for 11.5 FTEs just for base
  support of test areas (ie, no RD)
• 3.5 for common infrastructure support
  EPICS/DOOCS base support, configuration
  management, system admin, CRL support, etc
• 0.5 Development for new instrumentation
• 2.5 Data Management
• 3.0 Software development for SCRF
• 2.0 Hardware development for SCRF
• 2.0 Cavity Data Management
• 0.5 HTS support / 0.25 VTS support
• Combination of all divisions. Primarily (data
  management not listed)
• CD Margaret, Ron, Luciano
• AD Mike, Dennis, Sharon, Peter P, Michele
• PPD Vladimir, Geoff
• Short of needed effort

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NML

• SCRF facility for ILC and Accelerator RD
• Quite large - on the scale of TTF
• https//docdb.fnal.gov/ILC-private/DocDB/ShowDocum
  ent?docid363
• Ultimately 3 cyromodules, but building needs to
  be extended to fit third.
• Much of photoinjector will move. New RF gun?
• Building is empty now
• Cryo being installed Epics based
• Network switch added
• Controls requirements document being drafted
• https//docdb.fnal.gov/ILC-private/DocDB/ShowDocum
  ent?docid325
• difficult to get input from stakeholders
• We are on ground floor here exciting time to be
  involved
• This is a laboratory effort (cross divisional)
  and hopefully even multilab.
• Establishes the collaboration for ILC

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NML View (Except Beamline Areas)
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Controls System Knowns

• Integrated DOOCS/Epics
• Many components have interfaces in one or the
  other, but not both
• SCRF is advertised as an international facility
  for people to test. Need to support the DESY
  collaboration.
• Labview and MATLAB will have end users as well
• ATCA Test Platform for BPMs
• Instrumentation expecting controls to provide the
  infrastructure

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Short term deliverables (2007)

• First Cryomodule delivered summer
• Coupler conditioning
• Warm testing
• Archiving, alarming, control, interfaced to data
  management
• Photocathode prep system delivered in fall
• Developed at INFN Milano
• Labview based
• Interface to archiving, alarming.

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Development Work to Support Facility

• DOOCS/EPICS interface
• Soft IOC exists at DESY built against very old
  versions of both
• IOC support for new devices
• Interlock/modulator upgrade
• Retire SPARC boards (almost done?)
• Control interface for cathode prep system
• Sequencer support for NML processes
• Alarming/archiving design
• Operator Interfaces!!!!
• Clock and timing (need a workshop on this)
• Diagnostics

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RD Plans

• Facilitate Remote Control
• Evaluate/integrate role based access (RBA)
• Conflict Avoidance
• Remote resets
• Development environment
• Java application support?
• Eclipse environment?
• Scalability
• Configuration databases (eg, IRMIS)
• High Availability
• ATCA
• Diagnostic Interface Layer (DIL)
• Middleware