Oct 13 – 15, 2026
Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Europe/Rome timezone

When the Bare-Metal Returns: A Centralized Data Plane for Elettra 2.0 Control and Simulation

Oct 14, 2026, 10:05 AM
40m
Nova Gorica, Slovenia

Nova Gorica, Slovenia

Oral Control Architecture and Strategies Sensors and actuators

Speaker

Giulio Gaio (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

Description

Elettra 2.0 control system will consolidate time-critical acquisition, processing, and actuation onto a dual HPC 512 HT core server. Using the DPDK kernel bypass, this data plane is designed to acquire Turn-by-Turn streams from 168 BPMs, 4 LLRFs and 120 BLMs, and drive about 1200 magnet power supplies at 100 kHz for RT feedback purposes, with a total of 160 Mpps data rate with a few microseconds jitter level over Ethernet. Moreover, the TbT streaming will enable the extraction of machine optics parameters continuously at up to 100 Hz rep-rate.
In order to validate the processing chain a test facility couples the real-time acquisition system connected to the real BPM electronics with a simulator running on the same machine to generate synthetic TbT data and feed the RT processing pipeline that is cross-checked with the simulator ground truth.
Commodity hardware ensures upgradability, while decades of machine physics algorithms remain in C code, accelerated through efficient, hardware-level execution.
When the bare-metal returns, the system radically simplifies and accelerates at the same time: commodity hardware below, optimized physics above, and no unearned layers in between.

Abstract Classification Control Architecture and Strategies

Author

Giulio Gaio (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

Co-authors

Alessio Bogani (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste) Gabriele Brajnik (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste) Igor Trovarelli (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste) Marco Cautero (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste) Mr Raffaele De Monte (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

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