A distributed architecture for the LHC dipole series measurements

The final LHC dipole series test setup is foreseen as 12 benches where the largest and most expensive devices will be shared into cluster of two benches. This sharing is possible because of a deliberate de-phasing of the tests between magnets to make an optimum use of resources, such as cryogenics and power equipment, without limiting the test throughput. We propose a two level control architecture in which a Test Master drives the measurement for a cluster and a Resource Manager handles the available resources shared between all benches. (3 refs).