JET is the world's largest nuclear fusion research facility [http://www.jet.efda.org/].

History of Tcl/Tk at JET:

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

Usage (some):

   * 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 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 on 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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