The big experimental physics installations are in great need of distributed, rea-time control technology to enable the construction of the complex applications they need to handle the experimentation with the large experimental installations (like interferometers, optical telescopes, particle accelerators or tokamak reactors).

Ricardo Sanz has given a tal on Embedded Components for Complex Control Systems focused in the COMPARE approach to the ACS community. This is a group of physics researchers building complex monitorisation and control applications for big experimental equipment.

The ACS Workshop 2005 gathered a group of researchers that are involved in the development and use of the ALMA Common Software (ACS), a framework for distributed control being developed for the ALMA radiotelescope but used by other installations across the world.

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