LHC@FNAL Collaboration Tools

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LHC_at_FNALCollaboration Tools
Erik Gottschalk
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Overview

• What is LHC_at_FNAL?
• Collaborative tools
• Experience with WebEx
• Summary

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What is LHC_at_FNAL?

• A Place (Wilson Hall 1st floor)
• That provides access to information in a manner
  that is similar to what is available in control
  rooms at CERN
• Where members of the LHC community can
  participate remotely in CMS and LHC activities
• A Communications Conduit
• Between CERN and members of the LHC community
  located in North America (for example, university
  groups)
• An Outreach tool
• Visitors will be able to see current LHC
  activities
• Visitors will be able to see how future
  international projects in particle physics can
  benefit from active participation in projects at
  remote locations.

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Collaborative Tools

• Collaborative tools for remote operations
• Screen viewing
• Application viewing/sharing
• Desktop viewing/sharing
• Collaborative workspace

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Screen Viewing

• Use Cases for screen viewing
• Monitoring console screens from remote locations
• Remote viewing for expert intervention
• Viewing console screens for outreach
• Features
• Security
• Viewing multiple screens in control room or
  operations center
• Accessible from multiple platforms (Linux, Mac,
  Windows)
• Short setup time (less than one minute)
• Refresh rate ( 1 frame/second)
• Tools
• Webcam
• VGA2WEB
• WebEx (setup time is probably too long)

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Application Viewing/Sharing

• Use Cases for application viewing/sharing
• Remote access and remote control for expert
  intervention
• Collaborative code review and development
• Application demos
• Features
• Security
• Access to screen content distributed across
  multiple monitors
• Accessible from multiple platforms (Linux, Mac,
  Windows)
• Supervised remote control of application
• Logging of remote access session
• 24/7/365 support
• Tools
• WebEx (or equivalent)

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Desktop Viewing/Sharing

• Use Cases for desktop viewing/sharing
• Remote control for expert intervention in
  situations where application sharing is not
  sufficient and the remote expert needs access to
  a console PC
• Features
• Security (!!!)
• Access to screen content distributed across
  multiple monitors
• Accessible from multiple platforms (Linux, Mac,
  Windows)
• Supervised remote control
• Logging of remote access session
• 24/7/365 support
• Tools
• WebEx (or equivalent)
• VNC with ssh tunneling (not popular with
  computing security)

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Collaborative Workspace

• Use Cases
• Work environment to enable close collaboration
  between control rooms and remote sites and remote
  collaborators
• Features
• Security
• Collaborative desktop for multiple users
• Accessible from multiple platforms (Linux, Mac,
  Windows)
• ???
• Examples
• DIII-D Tokamak control room (early attempt at
  collaborative workspace)
• CERN Control Centre - CCC (collaborative viewing
  in the control room)

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Collaborative Tools

• Collaborative tools considered for remote
  operations
• Webcam
• VGA2WEB with video matrix switch
• WebEx
• VNC with ssh tunneling
• Terminal services (remote desktop)
• Citrix Presentation Server (???)
• Polycom QSX hardware
• Polycom PVX software
• Polycom hardware with H.239 capabilities

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Experience with WebEx

• Experience with WebEx for work on LHC_at_FNAL remote
  operations by our most active user
• Suzanne has arranged 17 WebEx meetings in the
  last 3 months
• Many of these meetings involved application (or
  desktop) sharing for live demonstrations of
  software
• Role Based Access Control
• Shot Data Analysis
• Sequencer
• Logbook evaluation task force
• Control Room Logbook installations
• Attendance ranges from 2 - 8 people who are
  logged in to WebEx (many more participants if one
  counts people in meeting rooms)
• Suzanne expects to have regular WebEx meetings
  with CERN to work on LHC software development,
  and expects to use WebEx while she is at CERN to
  work on the Control Room Logbook.

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Summary

• To support commissioning and operations of both
  the LHC accelerator and CMS experiment, we need
  tools that enable collaborative work. WebEx is
  one of the tools that has features we consider to
  be essential
• Security
• Access to screen content distributed across
  multiple monitors
• Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are supported
• Remote control can be supervised and instantly
  revoked if necessary
• All WebEx sessions are logged with user
  information and type of operating system used to
  access the session
• Teleconferencing capabilities
• 24/7/365 technical support

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Location Layout
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Additional Slides
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LHC_at_FNAL LARP/LHC needs

• Model of the CCC at CERN
• LHC_at_FNAL
• training prior to stays at CERN
• remote participation for studies
• service after the sale

CCC
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Site Visits

• Technology Research, Education, and
  Commercialization Center (TRECC) West Chicago,
  Illinois (Aug. 25, 2005)
• Gemini Project remote control room Hilo,
  Hawaii (Sept. 20, 2005)
• http//docdb.fnal.gov/CMS-public/DocDB/ShowDocumen
  t?docid425
• Jefferson Lab control room Newport News,
  Virginia (Sept. 27, 2005)
• http//docdb.fnal.gov/CMS-public/DocDB/ShowDocumen
  t?docid505
• Hubble Space Telescope STScI Baltimore,
  Maryland (Oct. 25, 2005)
• National Ignition Facility Livermore,
  California (Oct. 27, 2005)
• http//docdb.fnal.gov/CMS-public/DocDB/ShowDocumen
  t?docid532
• General Atomics San Diego, California (Oct.
  28, 2005)
• Spallation Neutron Source Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  (Nov. 15, 2005)
• http//docdb.fnal.gov/CMS-public/DocDB/ShowDocumen
  t?docid570
• Advanced Photon Source Argonne, Illinois (Nov.
  17, 2005)
• European Space Operations Centre Darmstadt,
  Germany (Dec. 7, 2005)
• http//docdb.fnal.gov/CMS-public/DocDB/ShowDocumen
  t?docid622