The Use of MDSplus on NSTX at PPPL

Davis, W. ; Roney, P. ; Carroll, T. ; Gibney, T. ; Mastrovito, D.

Princeton University. Plasma Physics Laboratory.

关键词: 70 Plasma Physics And Fusion Technology;    Data Acquisition;    Massachusetts;    Data Acquisition Systems;    Plasma;   

DOI  :  10.2172/796204
RP-ID  :  PPPL-3678.pdf
RP-ID  :  AC02-76CH03073
RP-ID  :  796204

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The MDSplus data acquisition system has been used successfully since the 1999 startup of NSTX [National Spherical Torus Experiment] for control, data acquisition, and analysis for diagnostic subsystems. For each plasma ''shot'' on NSTX about 75 MBs of data is acquired and loaded into MDSplus hierarchical data structures in 2-3 minutes. Physicists adapted to the MDSplus software tools with no real difficulty. Some locally developed tools are described. The support from the developers at MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] was timely and insightful. The use of MDSplus has resulted in a significant cost savings for NSTX.