Description
The CLEO III data acquisition was from the beginning in the late 90's
designed to allow remote operations and monitoring of the experiment.
Since changes in the coordination and operation of the CLEO experiment
two years ago enabled us to separate tasks of the shift crew into an
operational and a physics task, existing remote capabilities have
been revisited. In 2002/03 CLEO started to deploy its remote
monitoring
tasks for performing remote shifts and evaluated various communication
tools e.g. video conferencing and remote desktop sharing. Remote,
collaborating institutions were allowed to perform the physicist shift
part from their home institutions keeping only the professional
operator
of the CLEO experiment on site. After a one year long testing and
evaluation phase the remote shifting for physicists is now in
production
mode.
This talk reports on experiences made when evaluating and deploying
various options and technologies used for remote control, operation
and monitoring e.g. CORBA's IIOP, X11 and VNC in the CLEO experiment.
Furthermore some aspects of the usage of video conferencing tools by
distributed shift crews are being discussed.
Primary authors
Dr
H. Schwarthoff
(Cornell University)
Dr
T. Wilksen
(CORNELL UNIVERSITY)
