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RIS citation export for WEPGF031: The Evolution of the Simulation Environment in ALMA

TY - CONF
AU - Shen, T.C.
AU - Fuica, S.A.
AU - Ibsen, J.P.A.
AU - Ovando, A.
AU - Saez, N.
AU - Soto, R.
AU - Staig, T.I.
AU - Velez, G.
ED - Corvetti, Lou
ED - Riches, Kathleen
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
TI - The Evolution of the Simulation Environment in ALMA
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 Atacama Large Millimeter /sub millimeter Array (ALMA) has entered into operation phase since 2014. This transition changed the priorities within the observatory, in which, most of the available time will be dedicated to science observations at the expense of technical time that software testing used to have available in abundance. The scarcity of the technical time surfaces one of the weakest points in the existent infrastructure available for software testing: the simulation environment of the ALMA software. The existent simulation focuses on the functionality aspect but not on the real operation scenarios with all the antennas. Therefore, scalability and performance problems introduced by new features or hidden in the current accepted software cannot be verified until the actual problem explodes during operation. Therefore, it was planned to design and implement a new simulation environment, which must be comparable, or at least, be representative of the production environment. In this paper we will review experiences gained and lessons learnt during the design and implementation of the new simulated environment.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 765
EP - 768
KW - simulation
KW - software
KW - network
KW - hardware
KW - operation
DA - 2015/12
PY - 2015
SN - 978-3-95450-148-9
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2015-WEPGF031
UR - http://jacow.org/icalepcs2015/papers/wepgf031.pdf
ER -