Experience with Vsystem in a wide variety of applications

Vsystem has been developing rapidly with the demands of industrial and research users as well as with promising research into smart controls. A significant development has been the fielding of V3.0 on VxWorks, Digital UNIX, Concurrent power/UX, and Solaris as well as our traditional platforms. One application running is with Vaccess on all three of VxWorks, VAX/OpenVMS, and Alpha/OpenVMS in one system. Other applications use Digital UNIX and Concurrent Power/UX. Our new version of the logger has been running in a power plant for over a year, acting as a black-box flight recorder, recording data at 33 Hz and 100 Hz. We are also installing a power-plant training system emulating the operator's home system with Vdraw and Vaccess running under Digital UNIX. For a new contract for an equipment vendor, we have finished the port of the full Vsystem package to Windows 95 and Windows NT. We made the first tests of charged-particle beam line automation and optimization with a generic automation package. This package has been developed against realistic models and exemplifies on-going research and development at our company.