Nikolay Malitsky

Unified accelerator libraries

A “Universal Accelerator Libraries” (UAL) environment is described. Its purpose is to facilitate program modularity and inter-program and inter-process communication among heterogeneous programs. The goal ultimately is to facilitate model-based control of accelerators.

Status of Unified Accelerator Libraries

The Unified Accelerator Libraries (UAL) form an object-oriented programming toolkit for developing distributed accelerator software. At this time the UAL joins accelerator programs DA, PAC, and TEAPOT thereby implementing a set of fundamental accelerator data structures and algorithms: an accelerator lattice model, element-by-element particle tracking, differential algebra, and others. The Application Programming Interface (API), written in Perl, provides a universal homogeneous environment for invoking, customizing, and extending diverse accelerator algorithms, and integrating them with other computer software. It can be considered a model of the Accelerator Simulation Facility based on the CORBA Business Object Facility and the UAL framework.