• C.M. Gulliford, I.V. Bazarov, J. Dobbins, R.M. Talman
  CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
• N. Malitsky
  BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York

Commissioning of the high brightness photoinjector for the Energy Recovery Linac at Cornell University continues. To aid in this process we have developed a 'Virtual Accelerator' application, which provides the beam physicist with an online high-level physics description of the machine. This application combines a linear optics model called Numerical Transfer Matrix (NTMAT), developed at Cornell, and EPICS-DDS, a middle-layer software based on the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) toolkit and the Data Distribution Service (DDS) data-centric publish/subscribe model. We present the initial results of implementing this new software tool and its deployment in the Cornell ERL injector control room.