A key computing system for the ITER international fusion device has been installed in the JET tokamak and is now being validated on an operational fusion experiment ahead of ITER’s start-up in 2025.
This computing system is the ITER synchronous databus network and it is a core part of the plasma control system. It consists of “a high performance software/hardware stack for interconnecting diagnostic and control systems on a tokamak”, Adam Stephen, CODAS project manager at Culham, explains.
The new equipment, result of an international collaboration by teams from CCFE (UK), ITER Organization (France) and Fusion for Energy (Spain), will provide fusion scientists a better live view of key JET measurements.
Source: CCFE news