Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Rozelle Wright) · Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:41:08 -0700

Hi everyone,
I forwarding this message in the hopes that someone who has fairly
recent experience bringing up EPICs might be able to share some
estimate of the cost of bringing up EPICS for the first time.

I would like to suggest  the use of the Epics-phrase-finder on the tech-talk
archives, since some of these questions about CPU boards have been
discussed recently, but when I bring up the EPICS documentation
it says
"The EPICS phrase finder is disabled whie we debug the new WWW server. "
Does anyone have any idea when this will be working again.

If the people who were discussing CPU-boards would be willing to forward
their correspondence to Lynn that would be helpful also.

It also might be useful to start at
our epics home page at http://www.atdiv.lanl.gov/aot8/epics/epicshm.htm
and from there get to the general EPICs home page under the topic EPICS
Documentation at Argonne.  From there the Documentation topic leads to
lists of IOC Support.  It also might be useful to look at the tech-talk
archives themselves, but it would be a lot easier with the phrase finder.

Thanks for your help.
Rozelle

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> Hello!
> 
> Our lab, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab (NSCL), is interested
> in possibly using EPICS for a new control system.  We are mostly interested
> in the IOC end.
> 
> I got your name from the list of "Contact Names for Sites Using EPICS".  If
> you are not the person who can assist us, could you please forward this
> message to the appropriate person?  Thanks.
> 
> We would like to know:
> 
>   1. What are the costs associated with bringing up a first test system
>      under EPICS?  How long does it take to get all of the software (EPICS,
>      VxWorks, GNU, etc.) and get started?
> 
>   2. What are the costs associated with bringing other IOC stations online?
> 
>   3. What specific cpu boards are supported by EPICS?  We are mostly 
>      interested in either PowerPC or Intel Pentium cpus.  
> 
>   4. We are also interested in evaluations of various IOC cpu boards.  What
>      problems have people had?  Which boards seem to work well?   etc...
> 
> Thank you in advance for your assistance.
> 
> Lynn Foth
> [email protected]
> 517 333 6348
> 517 353 5967 (fax)
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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