Top > Science > Astronomy > EPICS
EPICS uses Client/Server and Publish/Subscribe techniques to
communicate between the various computers. Most servers (called
Input/Output Controllers or IOCs) perform real-world I/O and local
control tasks, and publish this information to clients using the
Channel Access (CA) network protocol. CA is specially designed for the
kind of high bandwidth, soft real-time networking applications that
EPICS is used for, and is one reason why it can be used to build a
control system comprising hundreds of computers.
Obtaining
|
|
| Announce List | |
| Help List | |
| Developer List | |
| Bug Database | http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/mantis/login_page.php |
| Sponsors |
|
| Source repository | http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/download/base/base_trunk_cvs.tar.gz |
| Interfaces | daemon |
| Source languages | C, C++ |
| Build prerequisites | gnu make, perl |
| License verified by | Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2004-05-11 |
| Entry compiled by | Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> |
Categories
The copyright licensing notice below applies to this text. The software described in this text has its own copyright notice and license, which can usually be found in the distribution itself.
Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of this license is included in the file COPYING.DOC.
Please report any problems in this page to bug-directory@gnu.org, or find out how you can help fix them.
The FSF provides this directory as a service to the free software community. Please consider donating to the FSF to help support this project.