Developmental status of a server system for the MLF general control system

Oi, Motoki ; Kai, Tetsuya   ; Kinoshita, Hidetaka   ; Sakai, Kenji ; Kaminaga, Masanori  ; Futakawa, Masatoshi  

The Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF) of J-PARC has the general control system (MLF-GCS) that controls all subsystems of the MLFAccording to classifying into each function, the MLF-GCS consists of three layers of a PLC (programmable logic controller) link layer, server layer and external network layer. The PLC link layer is an inner layer and core part of the MLF-GCS. The server layer acquires various data from the inner and outer layer. The server systems also protect the core part of the MLF-GCS from network troubles of external LANs by mediating between the inner and outer layer. The server systems play an important role for realizing advanced and independent control in the MLF. A modeling and construction of the server systems have been almost finished, and an improvement and optimization of them are now in progress. This paper gives an overview of the server systems for the MLF-GCS and reports on their development status.