Version 3 of BIG SCIENCE: JET the Joint European Torus project

Updated 2006-06-26 18:16:48

JET is the world's largest nuclear fusion research facility [L1 ].

Used since the early nineties, when the main Control and Data Acquisition Systems moved from minicomputers to Sun/Solaris machines.

Some of the uses of Tcl/Tk at JET:-

* On-line test and off-line acceptance, GUI utilities for VME and PCI modules. * GUI front-end for the fault/patch/intervention logging system. * GUI that controls the counts the countdown and triggering of a JET pulse. * GUI to display and manage Grid engine jobs on the 100+ linux based data analysis machines. * Tclhttpd running of both MSwindows and Linux based front-end PCs, provides a common interface to the control and data acquisition system. * Scotty is used for network monitoring.


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