1. Latest News of the PHELIX Control ystem Latest News of the PHELIX Control System Stefan Götte PHELIX GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH CS-Workshop Helmholtz-Institut Jena February 9 th, 2012

2. PHELIX Petawatt High Energy Laser for Ion Experiments in operation as user facility since 2008 providing about 80% beamtime in 2011 –typically 9hrs/day –with ion beam: two shift operation –a shotdirector and an operator per shift three experimental areas: –Laserlab: up to 10J, 1 shot/2min –Laserbay: up to 200J, 1 shot/1,5hrs –Z6: up to 1kJ, 1 shot/1,5hrs the PCS is one of the largest CS applications

3. The PCS running on 20 nodes –17 PHELIX nodes –one developer node –two hardware test nodes OS: Windows XP LabVIEW 2009, CS-V3.21 32 executables (four types) 60 PHELIX classes –about 15 for different hardware –many Beckhoff applications –about 2500 user VIs about 300 instances about 10000 process variables

4. PCS: Working horses Sequencer –48 controls, 114 indicators –12 states (SM) –43 methods –401 user VIs Beamline –177 controls, 163 indicators –40 methods –309 user VIs PILS –16 controls, 203 indicators –16 methods –262 user VIs

5. PSDB: How it works Database Data controller Device Sequencer Start upOperation Name Device ID possible Experi- ments, Shottypes Preparation Sequencer Data controller Sequencer Experiment, Shottype possible Experiments, Shottypes Experiment, Shottype Data controller Database Shot Start Standby Shot ID Shot ID Write! Data User PCS (DIM) Method Device Status

6. PSDB: How it looks like … Sequencer: the user –selects an experiment, –the shot type, and –adds a comment Data controller: –watches all instance data status –distributes information from PSDB –forces instances to send data to PSDB

7. PSDB: … in reality Device: –Constructor … –… and Methods

8. PSDB: This is what you get …