The Brookhaven Reactor Experiment Control Facility - A Distributed Function Computer Network

A computer network for real-time data acquisition, monitoring and control of a series of experiments at the Brookhaven High Flux Beam Reactor has been developed and has been set into routine operation. This Reactor Experiment Control Facility presently services nine neutron spectrometers and one x-ray diffractometer. Several additional experiment connections are in progress. The architecture of the facility is based on a distributed function network concept as introduced and defined elsewhere. This paper is a statement of implementation and results.