Transcript TCR Operation

ST Computing issues
• ST Division mandate and fields of
activity
•Overview of Computing in ST
– user communities
– tools
– applications
•Needs, remarks, suggestions
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ST Division mandate
• To provide technical support for
accelerators and related experimental areas,
including the LHC project
• Management of general services related to
buildings and building facilities
– heating, air conditioning and low voltage
electrical systems, including cleaning and green
area maintenance.
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ST Division fields of activity
• Civil engineering
• Ventilation and cooling by water and air
• Power distribution from 400 kV to low
voltage
• Heavy handling
• Telecommunication
• Access control and video systems and
• Monitoring of the technical infrastructure
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ST Division Organisation
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Management and Coordination (DI)
Alarm and Access (AA)
Civil engineering (CE)
Cooling and Ventilation (CV)
Electrical Engineering and Telecom (EL)
Heavy Handling and Transport (HM)
Monitoring and Operation (MO)
Technical Facilities Management (TFM)
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Computing in ST
• Computing in ST is VERY IMPORTANT
– CERN technical installations rely on it
– several specific domains of activity
• ‘User Communities’ domains in every
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Administration (resources, services, contracts)
Project management and development
Design Office
Maintenance Management (assets and works)
Control and Monitoring
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ST Computing: tools used
• 99% of ST: PC NICE user
• Administration
– Word, Excel, FileMaker Pro
– Access, Oracle Forms & Reports
– AIS applications
• specific applications in-house developed no longer
used
• CDD and EDMS-CADIM
• drawings and documents
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ST Computing: tools
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• Project management
– MS Project, GDPM tool (testing)
• Design Office
– 2D: AutoCAD and extensions for specific
domains, Microstation
– 3D: Euclid, STAR (cartography)
• Facilities Management: CAMMS
– Rapier, MP5
• assets and work management & maintenance
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ST Computing: tools
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• Control and Monitoring
– (it‘s a very heterogeneous domain)
– Supervisory systems
• SCADA or middleware (FactorylinkTM, SCATEXTM, VISIONICTM, DataviewsTM, WizconTM,
RTsmartsocketsTM)
– Operating systems:
• HP-UX, Tru64 UnixTM, Lynx OSTM, OS2TM,
Windows NTTM, Windows 95TM, OS9TM, Linux
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ST Computing: tools
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• Control and Monitoring
– Platforms:
• HP, Compaq, PowerPC, PC, ...
– Languages and tools:
• C, C++, Java, Xwindows, Web-based interfaces,
TCL/TK
– Communication:
• TCP/IP, CORBA, OLE, COM, DCOM, Active-X,
Profibus, WordFIP, CAN, MIL-1553
– Databases: OracleTM, SQL, PL/SQL, Pro C, INGRESTM
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ST Computing: applications
• Oracle Forms
– GESMAR: contracts follow-up
– ELEC: electrical cabling
– CERN Patrimony Management
• MS Access
– Green Space Management
– Cleaning Service
• OMNIS
– CERN Vehicles Management
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Needs, remarks, suggestions
• More reliable and faster Network
• A more stable and simple NICE working
environment
– to handle daily normal work more easily and
efficiently
• Documentation short but practical and easily
available
• IT unique support contact via helpdesk
– internal IT co-responsibilities transparent to
users
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Needs, remarks, suggestions
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• ACB service improvement
• service should be specially available and reliable
during holidays, week-ends and outside working
hours
• Integration of all the DBs and applications
dealing with the CERN Computing
Inventory
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Needs, remarks, suggestions
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• A Project Management Tool
– appropriate for big projects (LHC) and medium
and small ones
• CERN-wide, Web-Interface, access to HR db
• supported by IT/AS?
• Support for EDMS
– long time response
• CFU
– not user friendly, difficult to ‘find’ data
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Needs, remarks, suggestions
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• CAD tools
– It works quite well, with small resources, but
• with the LHC design (where we are "gourmands") it
should by no means decrease
• the co-responsibility IT/EST(ISS) should be
transparent to users
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Needs, remarks, suggestions
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• Networks
– The control networks (SL/CO) and IT network
are very much tight together
– Safety Control Room and Technical Control
Room relies on the IT network for their 24/365
operation -> availability 24/365
• the sharing of responsibilities is never clear
• the support is very difficult to obtain when a
problem occur
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