The Idaho Accelerator Center (IAC) of Idaho State University, has been operating nine low energy accelerators for nuclear physics applications and medical isotope production [1]. But almost all of those accelerators do not have modern computer based systems to control the various accelerator components remotely. To obtain stable accelerator operations with a good reproducibility, the EPICS acce...

Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) has embarked on a complete upgrade of its decade old computer system. The planned improvements affect every major component: processors (Intel Pentium replaces VAXes), operating system (Linux/Real-Time Linux supplants OpenVMS), and data acquisition equipment (fast Ethernet equipment replaces CAMAC serial highway.) This paper summa...

The KEKB collider complex consists of highand lowenergy rings, and an 8-GeV Linac. Some of the resources were inherited from the previous TRISTAN project, and also they are shared with the Photon Factory and PF-AR light sources. In order to realize the long lifespan of the system, de-facto and international standard technologies were employed since the early stage, which have been efficiently o...

Middleware is an integral part of all modern control systems [1]. In the past the term middleware was used to refer to the first abstraction layer between the lower-level hardware access layer and the higher level application layer. It was often introduced to hide the network communication protocols. Middleware has developed far beyond this. Modern control systems can now have multiple middlewa...