BE-CO Presentation FESA and O/S Support Post-ACCOR renovations until LS2 Front-End Platforms BE-BI TB, May 21 st, 2015 M.Vanden Eynden on behalf of BE-CO Courtesy slides from S.Deghaye & S.Page M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st 20151 Agenda Support for FESA 2 Support for LynxOS-PPC Future Front-End Platforms VMEbus? Replacement of MEN A20 VMEbus CPUs Post-ACCOR Renovations -> LS2 (Budget?) BE-BI Piquet access to BE-CO Stock M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st 20152 Foreword CO3 Some information is still provisional Most of the subjects and questions raised in the context of this BI-TB will be addressed by CO3 The Objectives and subjects to be covered by CO3 where presented and the LMC meeting on March 4 th, 2015 The CO3 membership is currently reviewed with the GLs from BE, EN and TE https://espace.cern.ch/lhc-machine- committee/Minutes/1/lmc_207.pdf M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st 20153 CO3 - Proposals for 2015 Already agreed Follow-up of the remaining Injector complex renovations (10%) until LS2 (post-ACCOR) New proposals Coordination of operational developments via CO3 (ECR-like approach) Launch project for Future Front-end platforms Launch project for High-speed radiation tolerant field buses M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st 20154 Agenda Support for FESA 2 Support for LynxOS-PPC Future Front-End Platform VMEbus? Replacement of MEN A20 VMEbus CPUs Post-ACCOR Renovations -> LS2 (Budget?) BE-BI Piquet access to BE-CO Stock M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st 20155 Operational devices distribution Devices not belonging to a TST accelerator and in FECs marked as operational M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st 20156 LHC devices distribution Operational devices belonging to LHC Very good FESA3 adoption but critical systems still in FESA2 M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st 20157 Injectors devices distribution Same as before but only devices belonging to an injector (Linac2 SPS) The majority of the FESA2 devices are in the injectors LS1 was focused on LHC M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st 20158 FESA2 in LHC per group 6% of the operational LHC devices are FESA2 Based on the FEC responsible group, the distribution is as follows M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st 20159 FESA2 in LHC per group (LTIM fix) Not all devices in a eqp groups FEC belong to that group but difficult to separate except for LTIM a closer to reality distribution is CO wins !! M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st BE/BI LHC devices distribution from Lars J. BOBR (BST receivers): Will look at it in 2015 but its complex (interrupts) BOSTEP: Planned for 2016 (partial). Many FECs and some will stay in ppc until LS2 BLMLHC: LS2 at the latest M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st FESA2 in injectors per group 39% of the operational INJ devices are FESA2 Based on the FEC responsible group, the distribution is as follows M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st FESA2 in injectors per group (LTIM fix) Adjusting for LTIM (see LHC slide for details), a closer to reality distribution is CO wins !! (again) M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st BE/BI INJ devices distribution OasisChannel => to reassigned to CO (planned for 2015/16 from Lars J. BXSCAL -> no plan BTVI planned for 2015/16 M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st # of BI FESA2 classes vs # of instances E.g. 100 on x axis means up to 100 devices and more than 50 Less straight forward to find the classes to focus on BI plans stretches until LS2 M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st GM/SL-Equip per eqp group M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st Support level Framework support Full support. Developer support and training. Bug fixes and new features released regularly. Development tools support Tools are kept alive and working. Incl. FEC generation tools. No developer support nor new fwk releases (no bug fixes). Generic FEC Software (aka FES) support As experts in FES, provide help and guidance on complex problems (memory leak, crashes) Available for any executable whatever the fwk. M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st GM & SL-Equip End of Life/Support When? Since end of LS1 Support? generic FES support. GM & SL-Equip obsolete no specific operational support Development environment not supported anymore FEC generation script not supported if it breaks, the FEC responsible group investigates M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st FESA2 End of Life/Support When? From end 2015 Support? Development tools & generic FES support Last FESA2 version is No new version, bugs wont be fixed since it works today. No developer support => read-only source code on NFS No new development in FESA2 allowed block insert in CCDB? Minor fixes and improvements in existing classes allowed Development tools support until beginning LS2 CVS, Shell tool, DB extraction, compilation to maintain OP support: No FESA2 specific support but general FES support (gdb, valgrind,) M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st Agenda Support for FESA 2 Support for LynxOS-PPC Future Front-End Platform VMEbus? Replacement of MEN A20 VMEbus CPUs Post-ACCOR Renovations -> LS2 (Budget?) BE-BI Piquet access to BE-CO Stock M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st Agenda Support for FESA 2 Support for LynxOS-PPC Future Front-End Platform VMEbus? Replacement of MEN A20 VMEbus CPUs Post-ACCOR Renovations -> LS2 (Budget?) BE-BI Piquet access to BE-CO Stock M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st Project for Future Front-end platforms >1800 operational Front-end systems for the Accelerator complex M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st TIER 1 TIER 2 TIER 3 POWER CONVERTER FGCs POWER CONVERTER FGCs TIER 4 LHC QPS NanoFIP Agents LHC QPS NanoFIP Agents LHC CRYOGENICS BEAM INSTRUMENT HARDWARE BEAM INSTRUMENT HARDWARE POWER CONVERTER MIL-1553 POWER CONVERTER MIL-1553 RF HARDWARE RF HARDWARE KICKERS HARDWARE KICKERS HARDWARE WorldFIP MIL-1553 RS-422 RS-485 VMEBus64x PICMG1.3 HP ProLiants PXI LHC COLLIMATORS IEPLC WorldFIP LHC CRYOGENICS & VACUUM Profibus PLC Project for Future Front-end platforms Proposed by BE-CO and EN-ICE Motivation VMEbus The VMEBus technology is widely considered as legacy in the embedded market and core components such as VMEbus bridges are discontinued The LHC experiments at CERN and major European and US Physics Laboratories (DESY, SLAC) are already running prospective studies and prototyping activities in order to replace the VMEbus technology PXI, PICMG1.3 : rationalisation and new roadmaps have to be defined PLCs : present recommendation is 17 years old, new roadmap needed for the next 15 years New technological opportunities (mTCA.4, IPC, cRIO, etc.) Emerging high availability requirements from HL-LHC (R.Schmidt) M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st Project for Future Front-end platforms Scope Debriefing of current situation Gathering of HL-LHC era requirements Evaluation of new Technologies Collaboration with other Labs and PH department Proof of concept (pilot operational installations) Time Line Project definition and approval by end Q Project organization in place by Q JCOP workshop outcome in 10/2015 Requirements study for HL-LHC completed by Q Technology survey, small prototypes with industry completed by Q Recommendation for Candidate technologies ready by end 2016 Approval and first pilot installations in 2017 Criticality Choice of platform is critical as the investment in budget and manpower is extremely important (tens of millions, lifetime of at least 15 years) Short/Medium term covered by new frame contracts through Finance Committee M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st Agenda Support for FESA 2 Support for LynxOS-PPC Future Front-End Platform VMEbus? Replacement of MEN A20 VMEbus CPUs Post-ACCOR Renovations -> LS2 (Budget?) BE-BI Piquet access to BE-CO Stock M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st MEN A20 VMEbus CPUs New Market survey + tendering process has started with FP in 11/2014 About 15 companies have received the MS Target contract award date: CERN Finance Committee 11/2015 New boards should be available early 2016 Problem with the TSI148 VMEbus chip (IDT) Last MEN A20 order placed 11/2014 MEN A20 Stock carefully monitored M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st Agenda Support for FESA 2 Support for LynxOS-PPC Future Front-End Platform VMEbus? Replacement of MEN A20 VMEbus CPUs Post-ACCOR Renovations -> LS2 (Budget?) BE-BI Piquet access to BE-CO Stock M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st Post-ACCOR Renovations until LS2 BE-CO (MCCs & PLs) will present the outline, including important End of Life (EOL) dates for HW and SW components (CO3 meeting Early June) Equipment groups will present their renovation roadmap + feedback (CO3 meeting End-June) A total budget estimation for the Front-End Hardware is currently made in view of trying to obtain the budget from the consolidation (M.Benedikt) M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st Agenda Support for FESA 2 Support for LynxOS-PPC Future Front-End Platform VMEbus? Replacement of MEN A20 VMEbus CPUs Post-ACCOR Renovations -> LS2 (Budget?) BE-BI Piquet access to BE-CO Stock M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st BE-CO Hardware Stock Will be effective on 07/2015 Will be located in BA3 CERN access card required In the meantime BE/BI can have spare parts on its own premises M.Vanden Eynden - BE/BI TB - May 21st