But…at NSTX...
- Painful learning curve (we do not have a well-balanced skill-mix)
- Skills need to be wide (but only shallow, thanks to the community)
- A lot of ‘tailoring’ for NSTX pulsed-ops :
(the good news is that EPICS is ‘open’)
- Waveform plotting (gnuPlot. Moving to IDL)
- Waveform Acquisition & Archival (MDSplus from MIT)
- Events & Process Data to/from EPICS (IPCS from LLNL & PPPL)