By remotely using these tools and technologies in the implementation of the remote experimental environment, developers gained unusual and immediate insight into both the technical and sociological issues relating to the environment that they were creating. We can no longer afford to construct new facilities. We have to work together, on fewer facilities, for fewer dollars and maintain our participation in the international efforts. We also envision further deployment of a consistent and coherent interface between the collaborative environments. The next generation of fusion devices will be international in funding, management and operation.
Researchers operate many scientific instruments and view and analyze data acquired in real-time.
Collaboration also happens when scientists remotely located participate in daily and weekly planning meetings and in collaboration on the design of instruments and future experiments. We, as engineers responsible for implementation of this project, collaborate on the installation and testing of hardware and software, and meet weekly via desktop video to share experiences and status of the project. This project uses the DIII-D tokamak at GA as a testbed for exploring and developing a variety of remote collaboration tools. The project empowers researchers to remotely participate in ongoing experiments at the DIII-D tokamak. Remotely located researchers are able to operate scientific instrumentation, view and analyze data in real time, and participate in ongoing discussions both during the experiment and during planning meetings.