A new generation of real-time systems in the JET tokamak

López Navarro, Juan Manuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7847-8707, Alves, Diogo, Neto, C. A., Valcárcel, D.F., Felton, R., Barbalace, A., Boncagni, L., Card, P., Tommasi, G. de, Goodyear, A., Jachmich, S., Lomas, P.J., Maviglia, F., McCullen, P., Murari, A., Rainford, M., Reux, C., Rimini, F., Sartori, F., Stephen, A.V., Vega, J., Vitelli, R., Zabeo, L. and Zastrow, K.D. (2012). A new generation of real-time systems in the JET tokamak. In: "18th Real-Time Conference, June 11-15, 2012, Berkeley, CA", 11/06/2012 - 15/06/2012, Berkeley, CA. ISBN 978-1-4673-1082-6. pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1109/RTC.2012.6418367.

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Title: A new generation of real-time systems in the JET tokamak
Author/s:
  • López Navarro, Juan Manuel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7847-8707
  • Alves, Diogo
  • Neto, C. A.
  • Valcárcel, D.F.
  • Felton, R.
  • Barbalace, A.
  • Boncagni, L.
  • Card, P.
  • Tommasi, G. de
  • Goodyear, A.
  • Jachmich, S.
  • Lomas, P.J.
  • Maviglia, F.
  • McCullen, P.
  • Murari, A.
  • Rainford, M.
  • Reux, C.
  • Rimini, F.
  • Sartori, F.
  • Stephen, A.V.
  • Vega, J.
  • Vitelli, R.
  • Zabeo, L.
  • Zastrow, K.D.
Item Type: Presentation at Congress or Conference (Article)
Event Title: 18th Real-Time Conference, June 11-15, 2012, Berkeley, CA
Event Dates: 11/06/2012 - 15/06/2012
Event Location: Berkeley, CA
Title of Book: Real Time Conference (RT), 2012 18th IEEE-NPSS
Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4673-1082-6
Subjects:
Freetext Keywords: Real-Time, Linux, Nuclear Fusion.
Faculty: E.U.I.T. Telecomunicación (UPM)
Department: Sistemas Electrónicos y de Control [hasta 2014]
Creative Commons Licenses: Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial

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Abstract

Recently a new recipe for developing and deploying real-time systems has become increasingly adopted in the JET tokamak. Powered by the advent of x86 multi-core technology and the reliability of the JET’s well established Real-Time Data Network (RTDN) to handle all real-time I/O, an official Linux vanilla kernel has been demonstrated to be able to provide realtime performance to user-space applications that are required to meet stringent timing constraints. In particular, a careful rearrangement of the Interrupt ReQuests’ (IRQs) affinities together with the kernel’s CPU isolation mechanism allows to obtain either soft or hard real-time behavior depending on the synchronization mechanism adopted. Finally, the Multithreaded Application Real-Time executor (MARTe) framework is used for building applications particularly optimised for exploring multicore architectures. In the past year, four new systems based on this philosophy have been installed and are now part of the JET’s routine operation. The focus of the present work is on the configuration and interconnection of the ingredients that enable these new systems’ real-time capability and on the impact that JET’s distributed real-time architecture has on system engineering requirements, such as algorithm testing and plant commissioning. Details are given about the common real-time configuration and development path of these systems, followed by a brief description of each system together with results regarding their real-time performance. A cycle time jitter analysis of a user-space MARTe based application synchronising over a network is also presented. The goal is to compare its deterministic performance while running on a vanilla and on a Messaging Real time Grid (MRG) Linux kernel.

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Item ID: 19860
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/19860/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:19860
DOI: 10.1109/RTC.2012.6418367
Official URL: http://rt2012.lbl.gov/
Deposited by: Memoria Investigacion
Deposited on: 28 Mar 2014 19:41
Last Modified: 20 Feb 2023 09:12
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