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From: guy@bevsun.bev.lbl.gov (Aran Guy)
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Subject: Re: V1.2 pre-release announcement
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Date: 11 May 89 08:59:02 GMT
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   o In a particle physics experiment.  We  are  talking  to  one
     group that hopes to use ISIS to implement a distributed con-
     trol program.  It will operate data collection devices, farm
     out  the  particle  track  calculations  onto lightly loaded
     workstations, collect the results,  and  adapt  to  failures
     automatically  by reconfiguring and shifting any interrupted
     computation to an operational machine.

 I am one small cog in a group that is modernizing the Bevalac
complex computerised control system. We are taking a mixed
Modcomp/Intel(Old ISIS!) system and slowly upgrading to a Sun
based distributed processing layout usine VME crates and
having dvDraw/dvTools as the operator interface.
 I get to draw up the pretty screens.
 The system will monitor and control upwards of a thousand analog
or digital devices spread out among two discrete but connected
heavy ion accelerator complexes, where up to four experiments
using different ions at different energies can be run
simultaneously.
 If anyone can e-mail me any details of the above described
particle physics experiment, I'd appreciate it.
 I'm neither a physicist nor a hacker, just someone slowly
moving up from the button-pushing stage.

       Thanks
             Aran Guy  guy@bevsun.bev.lbl.gov

 Disclamer: Lamer? I can stop that disc dead in it's tracks!
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