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 4.0:

Other Supported Features

Deprecated Features

Protocol changes since GT version 3.2:

API changes since GT version 3.2:

Exception changes since GT version 3.2:

Schema changes since GT version 3.2:

GTCP depends on the following GT components:

GTCP does not depend on any 3rd party software

Tested Platforms for GTCP

Associated standards for GTCP:

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