ICALEPCS2013 - List of Authors (Speck, D.E.)

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Status of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Integrated Computer Control and Information Systems

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L.J. Lagin, G.A. Bowers, G.K. Brunton, A.D. Casey, M.J. Christensen, A.J. Churby, R. Demaret, D.B. Dobson, J.M. Fisher, B.T. Fishler, P.A. Folta, T.M. Frazier, M.S. Hutton, D. Larson, A.P. Ludwigsen, C.D. Marshall, M.G. Miller, V.J. Miller Kamm, J.R. Nelson, R.K. Reed, S.M. Reisdorf, D.E. Speck, G.L. Tietbohl, S.L. Townsend
LLNL, Livermore, California, USA

Funding: This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. #LLNL-ABS-631632
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is operated by the Integrated Computer Control System in an object-oriented, CORBA-based system distributed among over 1800 front-end processors, embedded controllers and supervisory servers. At present, NIF operates 24x7 and conducts a variety of fusion, high energy density and basic science experiments. During the past year, the control system was expanded to include a variety of new diagnostic systems, and programmable laser beam shaping and parallel shot automation for more efficient shot operations. The system is also currently being expanded with an Advanced Radiographic Capability, which will provide short (<10 picoseconds) ultra-high power (>1 Petawatt) laser pulses that will be used for a variety of diagnostic and experimental capabilities. Additional tools have been developed to support experimental planning, experimental setup, facility configuration and post shot analysis, using open-source software, commercial workflow tools, database and messaging technologies. This talk discusses the current status of the control and information systems to support a wide variety of experiments being conducted on NIF including ignition experiments.

Slides TUCOAAB01 [4.087 MB]

FRCOAAB04

Data Driven Campaign Management at the National Ignition Facility

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D.E. Speck, B.A. Conrad, S.R. Hahn, P.D. Reisdorf, S.M. Reisdorf
LLNL, Livermore, California, USA

Funding: * This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. #LLNL-ABS-633255
The Campaign Management Tool Suite (CMT) provides tools for establishing the experimental goals, achieving reviews and approvals, and ensuring readiness for a NIF experiment. Over the last 2 years, CMT has significantly increased the number of diagnostics that supports to around 50. Meeting this ever increasing demand for new functionality has resulted in a design whereby more and more of the functionality can be specified in data rather than coded directly in Java. To do this support tools have been written that manage various aspects of the data and to also handle potential inconsistencies that can arise from a data driven paradigm. For example; drop down menus are specified in the Part and Lists Manager, the Shot Setup reports that lists the configurations for diagnostics are specified in the database, the review tool Approval Manager has a rules engine that can be changed without a software deployment, various template managers are used to provide predefined entry of hundreds parameters and finally a stale data tool validates that experiments contain valid data items. The trade-offs, benefits and issues of adapting and implementing this data driven philosophy will be presented.

Slides FRCOAAB04 [0.929 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
TUCOAAB01	Status of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Integrated Computer Control and Information Systems	483
	L.J. Lagin, G.A. Bowers, G.K. Brunton, A.D. Casey, M.J. Christensen, A.J. Churby, R. Demaret, D.B. Dobson, J.M. Fisher, B.T. Fishler, P.A. Folta, T.M. Frazier, M.S. Hutton, D. Larson, A.P. Ludwigsen, C.D. Marshall, M.G. Miller, V.J. Miller Kamm, J.R. Nelson, R.K. Reed, S.M. Reisdorf, D.E. Speck, G.L. Tietbohl, S.L. Townsend LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
	Funding: This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. #LLNL-ABS-631632 The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is operated by the Integrated Computer Control System in an object-oriented, CORBA-based system distributed among over 1800 front-end processors, embedded controllers and supervisory servers. At present, NIF operates 24x7 and conducts a variety of fusion, high energy density and basic science experiments. During the past year, the control system was expanded to include a variety of new diagnostic systems, and programmable laser beam shaping and parallel shot automation for more efficient shot operations. The system is also currently being expanded with an Advanced Radiographic Capability, which will provide short (<10 picoseconds) ultra-high power (>1 Petawatt) laser pulses that will be used for a variety of diagnostic and experimental capabilities. Additional tools have been developed to support experimental planning, experimental setup, facility configuration and post shot analysis, using open-source software, commercial workflow tools, database and messaging technologies. This talk discusses the current status of the control and information systems to support a wide variety of experiments being conducted on NIF including ignition experiments.
	Slides TUCOAAB01 [4.087 MB]

FRCOAAB04	Data Driven Campaign Management at the National Ignition Facility	1473
	D.E. Speck, B.A. Conrad, S.R. Hahn, P.D. Reisdorf, S.M. Reisdorf LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
	Funding: * This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. #LLNL-ABS-633255 The Campaign Management Tool Suite (CMT) provides tools for establishing the experimental goals, achieving reviews and approvals, and ensuring readiness for a NIF experiment. Over the last 2 years, CMT has significantly increased the number of diagnostics that supports to around 50. Meeting this ever increasing demand for new functionality has resulted in a design whereby more and more of the functionality can be specified in data rather than coded directly in Java. To do this support tools have been written that manage various aspects of the data and to also handle potential inconsistencies that can arise from a data driven paradigm. For example; drop down menus are specified in the Part and Lists Manager, the Shot Setup reports that lists the configurations for diagnostics are specified in the database, the review tool Approval Manager has a rules engine that can be changed without a software deployment, various template managers are used to provide predefined entry of hundreds parameters and finally a stale data tool validates that experiments contain valid data items. The trade-offs, benefits and issues of adapting and implementing this data driven philosophy will be presented.
	Slides FRCOAAB04 [0.929 MB]