She suggested that we develop a Device Contention Handler which would deal with all devices being accessed concurrently for incompatible measurements. Nan asked that we try to try to make this facility available in the real-time environment with the inputs coming from the lowest hardware device level. There would have to be some protection to accidentally applying simulation results to the actual machine while in real-time mode. Nan suggested that many features of the SLC evolved with the machine, and with some foresight, some of these facilities could be combined into fewer utilities which would provide a wider range of related facilities. Some of these efforts might make it easier to share commonly needed data rather than dropping data for some users in a contention situation.
Some applications require a lot of bandwidth to meet the full requirement.
There was a discussion about the quantity of data to be distributed to many users and the volume of data that would be archived from this effort. Data Acquisition, Boot and Download facility, Low Level RF Control, Contention Handler, Correlation Facility, and Linac Energy Management. Data Acquisition, and Beam-based Feedbacks. I would like to acknowledge the efforts of Nan, Joanne Bogart, Ric Claus, Linda Hendrickson, and J.J. Russel for contributing to this effort. I will appologize in advance if I missed other participants.