By Cosylab
“Timing is everything!” Nowhere is this statement truer than at CERN. So, when CERN wanted to renovate their General Machine Timing System, Cosylab was called in to gather requirements using input from other Big Science projects like GSI (FAIR), INPL and ITER. These requirements helped shape the White Rabbit Timing System. Cosylab collected the timing system requirements from Big Science laboratories: - CERN - GSI’s Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) project - L’Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL) - ITER, the international nuclear fusion project The requirements were then organized into layers, starting at the lowest (physical) layer and moving up until the event distribution processor. Thereafter, an analysis was done to identify commonalities and potential incompatibilities. To speed up the “time to market”, Cosylab decided to implement and host the first version of the Open Hardware Repository website portal. With Cosylab’s understanding of open source collaboration workflows, they could quickly converge with the customer on the best setup and what needed to be done.
