This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344DE-AC52-07NA27344

Paul Van Arsdall, Associate Project Manager

Steve Azevedo, Experiment Data Analysis Project Leader

National Ignition Facility

Lawrence Livermore National Lab

IEEE NPSS Meeting

Monterey, California

March 5-6, 2010

International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems

(ICALEPCS) Fact Finding Visit

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NIF Laser operationally qualified to 1 MJ on March 10, 2009

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Laser Bay 2

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Switchyards – Beam Enclosure

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Target Chamber and Final Optics Systems

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NIF is conducting experiments to prepare cryogenic targets and diagnostics for ignition beginning in 2010

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LIFE-Laser Inertial Fusion Energy

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ICALEPCS is a biennial conference that rotates between the Americas, Asia and Europe

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Conference series goals:

• Forum for interchange of ideas and information between control system specialists working on large experimental physics facilities (accelerators, particle detectors, fusion reactors, lasers, telescopes, etc)

• Create an archival literature of developments and progress in this rapidly changing discipline

• Promote standardization in both hardware and software

• Promote collaboration between laboratories, institutes and industry

• Assist colleagues from industrially emerging nations in the realization of these goals.

ICALEPCS is organized by active specialists appointed by experimental physics institutes

• Conference Chair

• International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC)

• ICALEPCS Executive Committee (IEC)

• Site Selection Committee

• Program Committee

• Local Organizing Committee

• Participates in Joint Accelerator Conference Website collaboration

• JaCoW tools recommended for registration and online publication

Conference series historyYear City Country Host

1987

Villars sur Ollon Switzerland CERN

1989

Vancouver Canada TRIUMF

1991

Tsukuba Japan KEK

1993

Berlin Germany HMI

1995

Chicago USA Fermilab, ANL

1997

Beijing China IHEP

1999

Trieste Italy ELETTRA

2001

San Jose USA SLAC

2003

Gyeongju Korea PAL, POSTEC, KSTAR

2005

Geneva Switzerland CERN, CPPR

2007

Knoxville USA ORNL/SNS, Jlab

2009

Kobe Japan JASRI & IKEN/SPring-8

2011

Grenoble France ESRF

2013

San Francisco USA NIF

ICALEPCS 2009 program tracks

12

• Special Invited

• Status Reports

• Project Management & System Engineering

• Control System Evolution

• Safety/High Reliability & Major Challenges

• Protection Systems

• Hardware Technology

• Reconfigurable Hardware

• Industrial Systems in Controls

• Software Technology Evolution

• Web Technology

• Process Tuning & Feedback Systems

• Operational Tools

• Data & Information Management

• Fabric Management

ICALEPCS 2009 demographics

• 350 attendees

• 22 countries

• 75 institutes

• 64 from US DOE Contractors

• ANL

• BNL

• FNL

• JLAB

• LANL

• LBNL

• LLNL

• ORNL

• SLAC

• 19 vendor exhibits

NIF is hosting conferences that will support HED physics and fusion energy

• September 2009 IFSA

• Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications

• July 2011 ICENES

• International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems

• June 2011 IAEA TM on Fusion Energy Controls and Data Acquisition

• October 2013 ICALEPCS

• San Francisco venues include site tour of NIF