Development of a man/machine interface system for the JT-60 upgrade

This paper describes the design and initial operation of a new JT-60 man/machine interface system built in workstations. Development of the system was stimulated by the requirements of making the JT-60 operator interface more friendly on the basis of the past five-year operational experience. Eleven Sun/3 workstations and their supervisory mini-computer HIDIC V90/45 are connected through the standard network; Ethernet. The network is also connected to the existing ZENKEI mini-computer system through the shared memory on the HIDIC V90/45 mini-computer. Improved software, such as automatic setting of the discharge conditions, consistency check among the related parameters and easy operation for discharge result data display, offered the user-friendly environments. This new man/machine interface system leads to the efficient JT-60 upgrade operation