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RIS citation export for TUD3O04: The Virtual European XFEL Accelerator

TY - CONF
AU - Kammering, R.
AU - Decking, W.
AU - Fröhlich, L.
AU - Hensler, O.
AU - Limberg, T.
AU - Meykopff, S.M.
AU - Rehlich, K.R.
AU - Rybnikov, V.
AU - Wilgen, J.
AU - Wilksen, T.
ED - Corvetti, Lou
ED - Riches, Kathleen
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
TI - The Virtual European XFEL Accelerator
J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2015, Melbourne, Australia, 17-23 October 2015
C1 - Melbourne, Australia
T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems
T3 - 15
LA - english
AB - The ambitious commissioning plans for the European XFEL require that many of the high-level controls are ready from the beginning. The idea arose to create a virtual environment to carry out such developments and tests in advance, to test interfaces, software in general and the visualisation of the variety of components. Based on the experiences and on the systems that are already in operation at the FLASH facility for several years, such a virtual environment is being created. The system can already simulate most of the key components of the upcoming accelerator. Core of the system is an event synchronized data acquisition system (DAQ). The interfaces of the DAQ system towards the device level, as well as to the high-level side is utilising the same software stack as the production system does. Thus, the software can be developed and used interchangeably between the virtual and the real machine. This allows to test concepts, interfaces and identify problems and errors at an early stage. In this paper the opportunities arising from the operation of such a virtual machine will be presented. The limits in terms of the resulting complexity and physical relationships will also be shown.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 578
EP - 580
KW - software
KW - controls
KW - hardware
KW - simulation
KW - operation
DA - 2015/12
PY - 2015
SN - 978-3-95450-148-9
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2015-TUD3O04
UR - http://jacow.org/icalepcs2015/papers/tud3o04.pdf
ER -