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COSMIC - The SLAC COntrol System MIgration Challenge

M. Clausen·Ron MacKenzie·Robert Sass·Hamid Shoaee·Greg White·Leeann Yasukawa
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The current SLC control system was designed and constructed over 20 years ago. Many of the technologies on which it was based are obsolete and difficult to maintain. The VMS system that forms the core of the Control System is still robust but third party applications are almost non-existent and its long-term future is in doubt. The need for a Control System at SLAC that can support experiments for the foreseeable future is not in doubt. The present B-Factory or PEPII experiment is projected to run at least 10 years. An FEL laser of unprecedented intensity plus an ongoing series of fixed target experiments is also in our future. The Next Linear Collider or NLC may also be in our future although somewhat farther distant in time. The NLC has performance requirements an order of magnitude greater than anything we have built to date. In addition to large numbers of IOCs and process variables, Physicists would like to archive everything all the time. This makes the NLC Control System a bit like a detector system as well. The NLC Control System will also need the rich suite of accelerator applications that are available with the current SLC Control System plus many more that are now only a glimmer in the eyes of Accelerator Physicists. How can we migrate gradually away from the current SLC Control System towards a design that will scale to the NLC while keeping everything operating smoothly for the ongoing experiments?

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M. Clausen, Ron MacKenzie, Robert Sass, Hamid Shoaee, Greg White, Leeann Yasukawa. 2001-11-30. COSMIC - The SLAC COntrol System MIgration Challenge. https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0111210

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