Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Matthias Clausen <[email protected]> · Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:39:44 +0100

Hi Franck et. al.

Welcome to the EPICS Collaboration!

What an exciting time to come. ITER will for sure trigger a lot of new

requirements exceeding the existing base functionality. The potential of

such a big project will help to push a lot of new developments. I am

sure that the collaboration will help you and the ITER team to make this

another success story. (Speaking for myself - I'll do my best)

On the other hand we are of course looking forward to take advantage of

new things tom come.

See you - a lot - in the coming EPICS collaboration meetings.

Take care!
Matthias

Di Maio Franck wrote:

Dear all

We would like to share with you the following decision taken by the group in charge of the controls for ITER (www.iter.org).

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The CODAC group initiated a number of actions in the first half of 2008 in order to select a software environment as a part of moving from the conceptual design to an engineering design of CODAC.

The conclusion of all these activities is that ITER, being an experimental facility with a very long timeline, is better suited using an open source solution as compared to a commercial solution. Further, the reports conclude that technically, any of the candidate open-source solutions would work. However, due to market share and proven record the preferred solution would be EPICS.

As a consequence, the CODAC group announces that EPICS will be used as the baseline for the software environment for the ITER control system within the scope of PCDH (Plant Control Design Handbook).

Anders Wallander, 01-Feb-2009

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Notes:
- CODAC means COntrol, Data Access & Communications.
- The Plant Control Design Handbook (PCDH) is a contractual document that specifies the ITER standards for the instrumentation and control of the ITER plant systems.

ITER parties are: China, Europe, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and USA.
So, it means new users (& hopefully contributors) from these regions.

Best regards,
Franck

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Franck DI MAIO
ITER Organization
CHD Department / CODAC & IT Division

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