Fusion Talk: A Remote Participation Tool
J.H. Santos, F. Reis, Horacio Fernandes, André Cabrita Neto, A. Duarte, F. Oliveira, W. P. de Sá, C. A. F. Varandas, Carlos Sliva · AIP conference proceedings · 2008
Remote participation tools exist for video conferencing, document co‐authoring and even for data sharing mainly through graphics. However, no single integrated solution existed to be used, whether in a daily informal basis among few researchers, or as a in more formal virtual gatherings with many participants wanting to share nuclear fusion data coming from heterogeneous databases.CFN is now developing FusionTalk, an open source project consisting of server and client software available to all nuclear fusion research institutes. It is a major complement to FireSignal[l] tools for local and remote experiments, which aims to fill the gap in what video‐conferencing, data access and collaboration is concerned. Using FusionTalk web tools one can access and compare data already available on the web and which is often ignored or difficult to use. FusionTalk data search features allow researchers to easily access not only information on CFN's databases but also in other databases (interfaces are already being developed for MDS Plus, DAS Access and SDAS/FireSignal) in laboratories that run a FusionTalk server.