Commitments and Major Issues on Controls Services H

Commitments and Major Issues on Controls Services H. Schmickler Chamonix@divonne. 2006 1

Outline Although Chamonix@Divonne is meant to be a technical/scientific meeting, with the charge of the session chairman this talk is almost a “ 2006 -MAPS” of AB-CO…. New AB-CO organigram n List of AB-CO activities/projects for the LHC n Particular issues n Calendar of upcoming events n H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 2

The main criteria for the new AB-CO organigram n n Sections of more equal size. More sections in order to reduce the size of each section …going very far in this approach would produce other negative effects …in the end we go from 6 to 8 sections n Reduction of section interdependencies: ¨ Section types core activity services interlocks n n Succession planning for next 3 years Avoidance of double efforts (example: PLCs) Steady replacement of piquet members by newcomers. Sections localized in a single place : significant extension of pavilion ¨ move of people from 864 to the pavilion ¨ H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 3

2005 AB-CO Organigram stays Merged into 3 other sections splits into 2 H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne (+ several persons merged into other sections) 4

New AB-CO Organigram H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 5

General comments for the following slides: n n The AB-CO group has just recently been restructured in order to meet the requirements of the LHC without asking (and getting) the additional staff as requested during the past 2 years AB-CO gives highest priority to the Controls core activity, i. e. Applications, Business layer and services, Front-Ends, Timing The presented “prioritized and staged” list of requirements does not help, since almost everything is at highest priority. Since this mechanism does not work, the result will not be “planified regulation”, but “regulation by saturation”. The real bootle-neck are the applications, additional temporary human resources are needed (and hard to find). Still a much closer collaboration between AB-CO and AB-OP is needed. n In the following table the definition is as follows: For every activity, for which there is no particular “issue” mentioned, this means, that AB-CO will deliver the requested functionality in time. H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 6

Activities/Projects in the AP section E. Hatziangeli Project / Activity Technical responsible Description Comment/Issues Common Console Manager Véronique Paris Console Manager for the CCC 1) Non CERN staff in charge of core operational software (in purple) Fixed Displays Jakob Wozniak Fixed displays and fixed displays components for HWC and LHC OP 2) Additional 2(staff) +3(LSA-PA) + 2(HC-PA) still expected JAPC Roman Gorgonosov Common access to equipment in Front-Ends Java GUI components Greg Kruk Software components for building Java Graphical User Interfaces. LASER Katarina Sigerud Alarm system for all CERN machines and services. Logging Marine Pace Logging applications for SPS, LEIR, HCW and LHC LSA effort inside AB-CO To be defined inside AB-CO in February 2006 Core software for LHC/LEIR & for LHC HWC LEIR controls Marine Pace Coordination of the controls project for LEIR applications Vito Baggiolini LEIR application software for operations On-line monitoring Jakob Wozniak Measurements for Fixed Displays, teletext, SDDS, logging Sequencer François Chevrier Sequencing tasks for LHC HWC SIS Vito Baggiolini Redevelopment of the Software Interlock System OASIS Stéphane Deghaye Analog signal observation system for LEIR, LHC, replacing n. Aos for other machines H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 3) Additional effort needed to integrate operators doing software production as 2 nd jobs 4) Space problem in the Pavilion to be solved (extension expected to be in place in July 2006) More details in Eugenia’s talk 7

Activities/Projects in the DM section R. Billen Project / Activity Technical responsible Description Logging Service Chris Roderick Reception, storage and making available time-dependent data from the LHC or any of the LHC components, equipment or beam related, throughout the LHC lifecycle. Measurement Service Chris Roderick Similar as Logging Service with more frequent and rapid transfers of short-lived data, serving as temporary buffering with persistence for Java measurement applications. Controls Configuration Management Maciej Peryt Topology, relations and description of the controls infrastructure: application programs, servers, front-end computers with hardware components and software devices; including interfaces to maintain the information. For LHC the software device implementation is FESA. Layout Management Pascal Le Roux Topology, relations and description of LHC layout components: functional positions of the LHC machine, electrical circuits and electronic racks; including navigation from different viewpoints and interfaces to MAD and DMU. Asset management Zory Zaharieva Ronny Billen Between these services the data is linked and shared: e. g. physical characteristics of the assets impact on operational settings and measurements. Close collaboration with the equipment groups is vital to adequately model and correctly capture the data. Registering and keeping track of physical equipment throughout its lifecycle from design, manufacturing, test, commissioning to operation and finally destruction. Naming Service Comment/Issues The information needs to be correct and maintained as Identification (naming) is a prerequisite for all data much as the management services, from conceptual design, drawings, equipment itself. layout components to physical equipment. H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 8

Activities/Projects in the FE section M. van den Eynden Project / Activity Technical responsible Description Comment Front-end Controls Hardware Procurement for the Department G. Surback Department wide VME, c. PCI and PC HW procurement, installation and maintenance (processors, crates, remote reset, terminal services) CERN World FIP activity R. Brun World. FIP network infrastructure installation, commissioning and maintenance LHC control system installation C. Dehavay Department wide LHC control system installation coordination Timing distribution R. Chery Timing distribution HW infrastructure installation and maintenance (copper & Fiber network) Front ends operating system N. De Metz-Noblat Front ends operating system, system administration and diagnostics To be defined soon Front-ends software architecture; development & support Technology defined, deployment as departmental service is the issue for 2006. FESA H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne Small disclaimer: Hardware Installation only 9

Activities/Projects in the HT section J. Serrano Project / Activity Technical responsible Description Comments/Issues General Machine Timing (GMT) generation J. Lewis technical specs for LHC not finalized Integration of timing in LSA is a big issue for SPS and LHC Beam Synchronous Timing (BST) generation P. Alvarez share of responsibility between CO and BDI? General Machine Timing (GMT) reception I. Kozsar H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 10

Activities/Projects in the IN section P. Charrue Project / Activity Technical responsible Description Comments/Issues File & application servers A. Bland/E. Genuardi Operational consoles P. Charrue/ E. Bournonville Monitoring, support & maintenance A. Bland LHC test benches support M. Bjork Video/Voice and CCC infrastructure D. Bakker/ R. Ballet-Thouble AB desktop support P. Potdevin/P. Charrue Problem of continuity after departure of P. Potdevin CMW K. Kostro Controls middleware work on BI data concentrators not assigned yet Remote access / CNIC P. Charrue H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne Need general policy 11

Activities/Projects in the IS section Ph. Gayet Project / Activity Technical responsible Description Comments/Issues UNICOS H. Milcent CERN wide framework for PLC work Support for UNICOS applications developed within equipment groups P. Durand C. H. Sicard Cryogenics application for ring (ATCR), Cryogenic application for experiments, experimental magnets PVSS application support E. Milcent Activity centered on AT-VAC PLC small applications, development and CERN wide support J. Brahy Automated configuration of communication PLC-FESA P. Gayet Hardware commissioning support P. Gayet H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 12

Activities/Projects in the MA section A. Rijllart Project / Activity Technical responsible Description Comments/Issues PMA H. Reymond Post Mortem Analysis software LV-OASIS interface A. Raimondo Lab. VIEW - OASIS interface FAME C. Charrondière Fast Measurement Systems for Test Benches MAR A. Raimondo Magnet Rescue Factory systems SM 18 test systems A. Raimondo SM 18 magnet test systems and analysis Test systems in industry A. Rijllart Test systems in magnet assembly firms Corrector tests in Bloc 4 and warm measurements H. Reymond Corrector test systems and warm magnet measurements Insertion Quadrupoles and SSS measurements C. Charrondière Laser tracker systems for geometric and magnetic meas. Cable and Busbar test systems E. Michel SC cable quench test and Bus-bar test systems H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 13

Activities/Projects in the MI section B. Puccio Project / Activity Technical responsible Description Comments/Issues BIC B. Todd Beam interlock systems no CERN staff assigned to this important activity PIC M. Zerlauth Powering interlock system WIC P. Dahlen Warm magnet interlock system FMCM M. Zerlauth Fast magnet current change monitors (DESY collaboration) Fewer units than expected for 2006, full lot available for July 2007 SLP B. Puccio Safe LHC parameters generation SLP J. Serrano (section HT) Safe LHC parameters transmission H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 14

Activities/Projects continued Project / Activity Technical responsible Comments/Issues RT feedback M. Jonker decision end January 2006 HWC Controls Coordination R. Lauckner Collimation supervisory process A solution for collimator controls has been proposed last Friday by AB-CO. This solution still needs to be decided in its details. environmental data management Sector test controls coordination NN candidate to be found inside AB-CO Post Mortem Project R. Lauckner Machine Protection R. Schmidt H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 15

Particular Issues - completely uncovered activities: none activities with critical HR coverage software release policy performance issues of LHC control system: AB-CO needs the deadline of the sector test for major validation/tests on scalability - plan B: none H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 16

LHC Activities in AB-CO with critical HR coverage n Predominately: application software - CERN staff missing to cover and assure continuity on critical core systems - 3 (LSA) + 2 (HWC) temporary programmers needed: very difficult to get people with the right profile and who at the same time accept to be paid as project associate. - space and coordination issues AB-CO and AB-OP n Beam interlock controller: covered, but not by CERN staff H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 17

LHC control system Architecture Client Tier Business Tier (Web Container) accsoft-settings accsoft-optics Remote macsy client HTTP Layer macsy client impl macsy-generation DAO Hibernate Datastore macsy-sequence macsy-trim Applications macsy-exploitation JAPC remote client JAPC remote server Parameters concentration JAPC cmwrda Devices JAPC cmwrda H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 18

Software release policy n n FESA framework: Deliberate choice for a heavy versioning system with well announced and controlled version releases. Intensive testing of new functionality (presently about 2 weeks!) before release. Very slow reactivity. Applications: Powerful versioning system in place, which allows AB-OP to choose between previous/present/new version of application code. Still: no deployment of quick fixes without going through the release procedure H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 19

Performance issues of the LHC controls system n n Still doubts expressed by some “field experts” on the performance of the application servers under full and realistic load of JAVA based programs. In case of problems this can be fixed by buying more hardware. Scalability of the controls system: Big issue: A realistic test would mean a concerted effort of the whole department. There is clearly no time to organize this in addition. We NEED the sector test as deadline and as natural concerted effort of the department. If the system does not scale, fixes by reprogramming certain services have to be developed! H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 20

Calendar of upcoming events: n n Until March 2006: AB-CO responsible (see tables) agrees with equipment groups on time scales for the availability of hardware for system tests. February 2006: AB-CO proposes a “ 2 -3 half day workshop” to finalize the design of the full LHC+SPS controls system. This event has to put an end to all the recurrent discussions on “old PS way of doing controls” versus “old SL way of doing controls”. Main actors: AB-CO + AB-OP + one rep. of each AB-equipment group February 2006: FESA release 2. 7 with the functionality needed for machines start-up 2006 Spring 2006: Machines start-up from the CCC. H. Schmickler - Chamonix@Divonne 21