Accelerators within CAS have operated since 1964 with our first accelerator, and now currently operate four tandem accelerators. This has represented all too common challenges to maintain facilities where whole beamlines may have been built by staff who have taken full freedom or design, and left the organisation with little to no documentation or support. This presentation will look at how...
A new clinical mode will be introduced in IMBL beamline at Australian Synchrotron to prepare the beamline for Breast CT experiments with human volunteers. To make sure that both volunteers and personnel are safe during the imaging, a safety system will be designed and implemented. The core of that safety system is called iPaSS (imaging Patient Safety System) and it will use the Siemens S7...
Personnel Safety Systems (PSS) at ANSTO-Australian Synchrotron utilise Safety PLCs to implement safety interlocks that protect the personnel against radiation and electrical hazards presented in accelerator areas and beamlines. The need to upgrade the legacy systems and develop new safety systems for expansion projects led to an overhaul of safety PLC platform design that will bring state-of...
Maintaining standards when it comes to hosts, software and IOCs is crucial to support controls engineers and make their lives easier. I will describe an attempt of making their life easier at the Australian Synchrotron and the future will tell if we have succeeded.
Traditional processors are hitting the clock frequency limit and thus, future significant increases in performance must come from parallel computations. FPGA has been shown to have the potential to speedup highly parallel applications. In addition, recent semiconductor technology provides sufficient FPGA resources to tackle scientific applications on large-scale parallel systems.
A quick overview of how we automatically archive almost all PVs at the Australian Synchrotron as soon as the IOC starts for the first time and pause them if they go offline, using the Archiver Appliance.
