Re: ITER will use EPICS

[Matthias Clausen <Matthias.Clausen@desy.de>]

Hi Franck et. al.

Welcome to the EPICS Collaboration!
What an exciting time to come. ITER will for sure trigger a lot of new 
requirements exceeding the existing base functionality. The potential of 
such a big project will help to push a lot of new developments. I am 
sure that the collaboration will help you and the ITER team to make this 
another success story. (Speaking for myself - I'll do my best)
On the other hand we are of course looking forward to take advantage of 
new things tom come.

See you - a lot - in the coming EPICS collaboration meetings.

Take care!
Matthias

Di Maio Franck wrote:
> Dear all
>
> We would like to share with you the following decision taken by the group in charge of the controls for ITER (www.iter.org).
>
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> The CODAC group initiated a number of actions in the first half of 2008 in order to select a software environment as a part of moving from the conceptual design to an engineering design of CODAC.
>
> The conclusion of all these activities is that ITER, being an experimental facility with a very long timeline, is better suited using an open source solution as compared to a commercial solution. Further, the reports conclude that technically, any of the candidate open-source solutions would work. However, due to market share and proven record the preferred solution would be EPICS.
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> As a consequence, the CODAC group announces that EPICS will be used as the baseline for the software environment for the ITER control system within the scope of PCDH (Plant Control Design Handbook).
>
> Anders Wallander, 01-Feb-2009
>
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> Notes:
> - CODAC means COntrol, Data Access & Communications.
> - The Plant Control Design Handbook (PCDH) is a contractual document that specifies the ITER standards for the instrumentation and control of the ITER plant systems.
>
> ITER parties are: China, Europe, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and USA.
> So, it means new users (& hopefully contributors) from these regions.
>
> Best regards,
> Franck
>
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> Franck DI MAIO
> ITER Organization
> CHD Department / CODAC & IT Division
>
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