Author: Gurd, D.P.
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S20PD02 Summary of Panel Discussion on Standards and World-Wide Sharing of Software 597
 
  • P.W. Lucas, C.I. Briegel
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • P.N. Clout
    VISTA, Los Alamos, NM, USA
  • D.P. Gurd
    SSCL, Dallas, TX, USA
  • N. Kanaya
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • U. Raich
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
  
  It has been a dream in the ac­cel­er­a­tor com­mu­nity for some time that soft­ware de­vel­oped for one con­trol sys­tem be eas­ily trans­fer­able to and us­able at an­other. Until re­cently this goal was sel­dom re­al­ized in prac­tice. This has been pri­mar­ily be­cause the var­i­ous con­trol sys­tems have been de­vel­oped in­house with lit­tle stan­dard­iza­tion among them. The world of ac­cel­er­a­tors was dom­i­nated until a few years ago by very large ma­chines con­structed for doing high en­ergy physics. The large lab­o­ra­to­ries could like­wise af­ford large con­trols groups, which were able to build these com­plete sys­tems from the ground up. How­ever the ac­cel­er­a­tor scene has now shifted, with a large frac­tion of the new work being done at much smaller in­stal­la­tions, in­stal­la­tions which can­not af­ford the large staffs pre­vi­ously em­ployed in con­trol sys­tem pro­duc­tion. Dif­fer­ent ap­proaches to this prob­lem were out­lined in the dis­cus­sion.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S20PD02  
About • Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992  
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