# Presentation: 867267

- The tool will be a mobile communication centre which provides immersive video and audio capture and reproduction of an accelerator control room, a laboratory workplace environment or an accelerator hardware installation.
- The tool should be able to connect to standard measurement equipment (scopes, network analyzers etc.) and to elements of accelerator controls and make these connections available to a remote client.
- The remote user should be enabled to participate in accelerator studies, assembly of accelerator components, trouble shooting of hardware or analysis of on-line data as if he or she would be present on site.

**The EUROTeV Project**

- The most likely scenario of a linear collider is that it will be built by a collaboration of existing laboratories, which will remain involved during the operation of the accelerator.
- Prototypes will be developed in one institution and tested with beam in another laboratory
- Equipment will be built and delivered by one partner and needs to be integrated into the accelerator complex by another partner
- Whole parts of the facility will be provided by a remote partner and need to be commissioned and possibly operated with the experts at their remote home institutions
- In situ trouble shooting and repairs needs to be performed with the support of off-site experts
- Advanced means of communication will be necessary to support efficient collaboration.
- The GANMVL project will design and build a novel collaboration tool and test it in existing accelerator collaborations.
- The Multipurpose Virtual Laboratory is a tool to implement the Global Accelerator Network, a Virtual Organisation (VO)  connecting international laboratories doing research in the field of accelerators
- The GANMVL project will provide valuable experience of a new way in designing, building and operating large accelerator complexes, and will address the important psychological and sociological issues of the Global Accelerator Network.
- Remote control of an accelerator facility has the potential of revolutionizing the mode of operation and the degree of exploitation of large experimental physics facilities.

- Web portal interface for all types of users (remote, laboratory admin, station admin) and all usage scenarios
- Fine grain control on authorization
- Resource or capabilities can be associated to different levels
- Awareness feature: tunnel monitoring and control, resource enable / disable
- Knowledge management tab with e-log, help, download area
- GANMVL tab with an integrated resource and people browser
- Different kind of capabilities: High resolution cameras, file manager, chat, audio and video conference (skype, VRVS), Web tools (LabVIEW, IVI instrument integration), VNC tools (Control Room Panels), Wizards
- Open source, modular distribution, plug-in architecture

- F.Billè, F.Bonaccorso, R.Borghes, A.Busato, V.Chenda, A.Curri, D.Favretto, M.Prica, R.Pugliese, M.Turcinovich **Sincrotrone Trieste SCpA - ELETTRA***contacts: pugliese@elettra.trieste.it*

**Virtually There****The Control Room of the Future**

**Notes:**
The goal is to build a widely distributed system that is able to remotely control and
monitor complex instrumentation that ranges from a set of sensors used by
geophysical stations monitoring the state of the earth to a network of small power
generators supplying the European power grid. These new applications introduce
requirements for real-time and highly interactive operation of GRID resources. To
achieve this goal we have three main objectives:
1. To develop generic Grid middleware, based on existing building blocks (Grid
Services) which will allow the remote control and monitoring of
instrumentation such as distributed systems.
2. To incorporate the new middleware into a few significant applications that
will allow the software to be validated both in terms of functionality and
quality of service aspects: European Power Grid, Meteorology, Analysis of
Neurophysiological data, RemoteOperation of an Accelerator Facility, High
Energy Physics Experiment.
3. To disseminate widely the new software technology, the results of the
evaluation on the testbeds and to encourage a wide range of enterprises to
evaluate and adopt our Grid-oriented approach to real-time control and
monitoring of remote instrumentation.