Supervisor programme running on each node. They monitor network messages sent by OPER and take actions accordingly. NDeamon can act as a programmable state sequencers providing control for the slow devices. The main steps of a shot sequence are described next. At this point all nodes are aware of their programming parameters and shot time.
Nodes inform OPER of the success of respective preparation.
If any of the nodes fails the preparation, process is aborted. OPER starts collecting data from all nodes as soon as it is available. A pooling algorithm achieves collecting times in the order of the time that the slower node needs to generate data. This takes about 30 to 40 seconds. This is expected to improve distributed processing and performance.