ICALEPCS2013 - List of Authors (Kapeller, R.)

Paper

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Current Status and Perspectives of the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility Control System

378

P. Chevtsov, D.A. Armstrong, M. Dach, E.J. Divall, M. Heiniger, C.E. Higgs, M. Janousch, G. Janser, G. Jud, B. Kalantari, R. Kapeller, T. Korhonen, R.A. Krempaska, M.P. Laznovsky, A.C. Mezger, V. Ovinnikov, W. Portmann, D. Vermeulen
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

The Free Electron Laser (SwissFEL) Injector Test Facility at Paul Scherrer Institute has been in operations for more than three years. The Injector Test Facility machine is a valuable development and validation platform for all major SwissFEL subsystems including controls. Based on the experience gained from the Test Facility operations support, the paper presents current and some perspective controls solutions focusing on the future SwissFEL project.

Poster MOPPC112 [1.224 MB]

THMIB03

From Real to Virtual - How to Provide a High-avaliblity Computer Server Infrastructure

1076

R. Kapeller, C.E. Higgs, R.A. Krempaska, H. Lutz
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

During the commissioning phase of the Swiss Light Source (SLS) at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) we decided in 2000 for a strategy to separate individual services for the control system. The reason was to prevent interruptions due to network congestion, misdirected control, and other causes between different service contexts. This concept proved to be reliable over the years. Today, each accelerator facility and beamline of PSI resides on a separated subnet and uses its dedicated set of service computers. As the number of beamlines and accelerators grew, the variety of services and their quantity rapidly increased. Fortunately, about the time when the SLS announced its first beam, VMware introduced its VMware Virtual Platform for Intel IA₃2 architecture. This was a great opportunity for us to start with the virtualization of the controls services. Currently, we have about 200 of such systems. In this presentation we discuss the way how we achieved the high-level-virtualization controls infrastructure, as well as how we will proceed in the future.

Slides THMIB03 [2.124 MB]

Poster THMIB03 [1.257 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
MOPPC112	Current Status and Perspectives of the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility Control System	378
	P. Chevtsov, D.A. Armstrong, M. Dach, E.J. Divall, M. Heiniger, C.E. Higgs, M. Janousch, G. Janser, G. Jud, B. Kalantari, R. Kapeller, T. Korhonen, R.A. Krempaska, M.P. Laznovsky, A.C. Mezger, V. Ovinnikov, W. Portmann, D. Vermeulen PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	The Free Electron Laser (SwissFEL) Injector Test Facility at Paul Scherrer Institute has been in operations for more than three years. The Injector Test Facility machine is a valuable development and validation platform for all major SwissFEL subsystems including controls. Based on the experience gained from the Test Facility operations support, the paper presents current and some perspective controls solutions focusing on the future SwissFEL project.
	Poster MOPPC112 [1.224 MB]

THMIB03	From Real to Virtual - How to Provide a High-avaliblity Computer Server Infrastructure	1076
	R. Kapeller, C.E. Higgs, R.A. Krempaska, H. Lutz PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	During the commissioning phase of the Swiss Light Source (SLS) at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) we decided in 2000 for a strategy to separate individual services for the control system. The reason was to prevent interruptions due to network congestion, misdirected control, and other causes between different service contexts. This concept proved to be reliable over the years. Today, each accelerator facility and beamline of PSI resides on a separated subnet and uses its dedicated set of service computers. As the number of beamlines and accelerators grew, the variety of services and their quantity rapidly increased. Fortunately, about the time when the SLS announced its first beam, VMware introduced its VMware Virtual Platform for Intel IA₃2 architecture. This was a great opportunity for us to start with the virtualization of the controls services. Currently, we have about 200 of such systems. In this presentation we discuss the way how we achieved the high-level-virtualization controls infrastructure, as well as how we will proceed in the future.
	Slides THMIB03 [2.124 MB]
	Poster THMIB03 [1.257 MB]