Globus Teleoperations Control Protocol (GTCP) is a service interface for telecontrol. It is the WSRF version of the NEESgrid Teleoperations Control Protocol (NTCP), which is used to control heterogeneous physical and computational simulations coupled in geographically-distributed earthquake engineering experiments. It has also been used to control data acquisition systems (triggering the collection of data) and high-resolution cameras (triggering image acquisition) during earthquake engineering experiments, and, to a lesser extent, to control the positioning, focal length, etc. of electron microscopes in a neuroscience application.

GTCP exposes two interfaces: a WSRF-compliant service interface used by clients to control remote instruments and simulations, and a "plugin" interface to facilitate integrating new back ends (physical or computational simulation platforms) to the GTCP server. The plugin interface is a Java interface definition that includes methods for each platform-specific action; a new platform is integrated by writing a class that implements this interface definition

Features new in release GT 4.1.0:

Other Supported Features

Deprecated Features

No changes have occurred for GTCP since the last stable release, 4.0.2.

The following problems and limitations are known to exist for GTCP at the time of the 4.1.0 release:

GTCP depends on the following GT components:

GTCP does not depend on any 3rd party software

Tested Platforms for GTCP

Protocol changes since GT version 4.0.2:

API changes since GT version 4.0.2:

Exception changes since GT version 4.0.2:

Schema changes since GT version 4.0.2:

Associated standards for GTCP:

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