7. Collaborative Control Room: The following are a list of user requirements.
One to many within the Control Room
One scientist at a computer in the control room sharing their
display to the control room tiled display wall.
No need to support audio/video here.
Supports Linux, Windows, MacOS X.
Fast and easy to use
Share X-windows & web browsers. Office applications lower priority.
One outside to one inside the Control Room
One scientist at a computer outside the control room sharing their
display to one scientist inside the control room.
Requires audio and video as well
Supports Linux, Windows, MacOS X.
Fast and easy to use
This will be a one-on-one interactive data analysis discussion
One outside to many inside the Control Room
One scientist at a computer outside the control room sharing their
display to the control room tiled display wall.
Requires audio and video as well
Supports Linux, Windows, MacOS X.
Fast and easy to use
This could be an off-site person who is heavily involved in the experiement
and they will be involved in discussions for the entire 8 hours.
Alternatively, this could arise from one-on-one discussions mentioned above
where the topic of interest is deemed to be of enough general value that the
discussion needs to involve the entire control room.
One inside to one inside the Control Room
This will be accomplished by just walking around, no need to technology solution.
Security
The same authentication and authorization mechanism that works
for Grid computing must be integrated into these tools.
Shared display Floor Control
A significant amount of floor control by conversation can be accomplished.
What if two off-site people want to share to the control room tiled wall.
Is this allowed, do we create a queue?
These issues need to be addressed and discussed. However, they are secondary to
first getting the technology to work. Additionally, floor control solutions
should be simple so as to not get into the way (we do not want to do research here).
Only edit your own application
No restriction on window placement and sizing.
Always on top capability
Multiple people can interact but limited to limitations above.
Audio needs to work well
In a big room (control room) can be a problem due to background noise.
Our experience at SC03 is indicative of this problem.
Headsets in the control room as broadcasting is not an option. But need to
be able to go from headset to talking with the control room staff.
Audio floor control is required.
Browser based display of shot cycle, DAM, Logbook, etc. (that was demoed at SC03).
SC03 was not a good layout, more generic capability for all tokamaks.
Layout should be customizable to persons needs. Easy to use.
The SC demo needs to be a general solution, not DIII-D only.
