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Real-time collaboration delivers for fusion computing

A key computing system for °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ is now being trialled at the European tokamak , following collaboration between teams at the UK's Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization and the European Domestic Agency for °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ.

Bertrand Bauvir (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization, left), Andre Neto (European Domestic Agency for °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ, right) and Adam Stephen (CCFE, not pictured) have teamed up to enhance control room tools by integrating high performance °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ software with state-of-the-art data visualization tools from the JET data analysis group. (Click to view larger version...)
Bertrand Bauvir (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization, left), Andre Neto (European Domestic Agency for °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ, right) and Adam Stephen (CCFE, not pictured) have teamed up to enhance control room tools by integrating high performance °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ software with state-of-the-art data visualization tools from the JET data analysis group.
Adam Stephen, CODAS project manager at Culham, teamed up with his counterparts Bertrand Bauvir from °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ and Andre Neto from the European agency to integrate the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ synchronous databus network on the live JET machine.

The synchronous databus network consists of a high performance software/hardware stack for interconnecting diagnostic and control systems on a tokamak, according to Adam. "The equivalent real-time data network system on JET is a core part of the plasma control system and has delivered ever-increasing functionality to the fusion scientists over the last decade." What was needed to further improve JET equipment was a real-time Ethernet feed of data to a new visualization service that would give physicists a better live view of key JET measurements.

Installing the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ system was a chance to do that, while at the same time validating the network on an operational fusion experiment ahead of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ's start-up in 2025.

Thanks to the intensive work and resourcefulness of the team, and the strong backing and support from each of the organizations, the equipment was installed in only three days, a success that was warmly welcomed by Andrew Hynes, CCFE's head of CODAS&IT, Anders Wallander, head of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Control System Division, and Filippo Sartori, head of Instrumentation & Control at the European Domestic Agency.

The project has provided enhanced control room tools by integrating °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ software with state-of-the-art data visualization tools from the JET data analysis group. It has also paved the way for the future evolution of the JET real-time data network using up-to-date maintainable software and hardware. Importantly, the compatibility with °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ equipment further opens the possibility of integrating and testing future °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ systems on JET.

See the original article on the CCFE .



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