Dear Andrew
Yes, EPICS is still a fundamental part of our control systems. We had far
too small a staff to write our own system.We benefited from the hard work of
the EPICS collaboration in helping us move this technology from VME VxWorks
to Linux, and supporting our abuses of it (~200,000 channels).
We hope to give back as well in terms of "hard real-time” controls methods and
some large scale state configuration tools, amongst others.
Thank you again for the congrats
Keith Thorne (no relation to Kip)
> On Feb 11, 2016, at 10:18 AM, Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ... on finally detecting gravitational waves from a pair of merging
> black holes.
>
> http://www.nature.com/news/einstein-s-gravitational-waves-found-at-last-1.19361
>
> The earliest tech-talk message from a LIGO email address was from David
> Barker in 1996. I believe EPICS has always been a fundamental part of
> the observatories' control systems.
>
> - Andrew
>
> --
> There are only two hard problems in distributed systems:
> 2. Exactly-once delivery
> 1. Guaranteed order of messages
> 2. Exactly-once delivery
> -- Mathias Verraes
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Keith Thorne <[email protected]>
CDS Software Engineer
LIGO Livingston Laboratory
Livingston, LA 70754
Phone: (225)686-3168 Fax: (225)686-7189
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