The Karabo distributed control system. (9th August 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hauf, Steffen; Heisen, Burkhard; Aplin, Steve; Beg, Marijan; Bergemann, Martin; Bondar, Valerii; Boukhelef, Djelloul; Danilevsky, Cyril; Ehsan, Wajid; Essenov, Sergey; Fabbri, Riccardo; Flucke, Gero; Fulla Marsa, Daniel; Göries, Dennis; Giovanetti, Gabriele; Hickin, David; Jarosiewicz, Tobiasz; Kamil, Ebad; Khakhulin, Dmitry; Klimovskaia, Anna; Kluyver, Thomas; Kirienko, Yury; Kuhn, Manuela; Maia, Luis; Mamchyk, Denys; Mariani, Valerio; Mekinda, Leonce; Michelat, Thomas; Münnich, Astrid; Padee, Anna; Parenti, Andrea; Santos, Hugo; Silenzi, Alessandro; Teichmann, Martin; Weger, Kerstin; Wiggins, John; Wrona, Krzysztof; Xu, Chen; Youngman, Christopher; Zhu, Jun; Fangohr, Hans; Brockhauser, Sandor;
• Is Part Of: Journal of synchrotron radiation. Volume 26:Part 5(2019)
• Page Start: 1448
• Page End: 1461
• Publication Date: 2019-08-09
• Subjects: Karabo -- control system -- physics facility -- experiment control -- data analysis; Synchrotron radiation -- Periodicals; Free electron lasers -- Periodicals; 539.73505
• DOI: 10.1107/S1600577519006696
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0909-0495

Abstract

Abstract : Karabo, a new distributed control software developed at the European XFEL, is presented. Abstract : The Karabo distributed control system has been developed to address the challenging requirements of the European X‐ray Free Electron Laser facility, including complex and custom‐made hardware, high data rates and volumes, and close integration of data analysis for distributed processing and rapid feedback. Karabo is a pluggable, distributed application management system forming a supervisory control and data acquisition environment as part of a distributed control system. Karabo provides integrated control of hardware, monitoring, data acquisition and data analysis on distributed hardware, allowing rapid control feedback based on complex algorithms. Services exist for access control, data logging, configuration management and situational awareness through alarm indicators. The flexible framework enables quick response to the changing requirements in control and analysis, and provides an efficient environment for development, and a single interface to make all changes immediately available to operators and experimentalists.