Dr
Jiro Suzuki
(KEK, J-PARC)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
We report the current status of data-analysis software environment at Materials and Life Science Facility (MLF) of Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). MLF is a user facility which provides neutron and muon sources for experiments. The basic concept of analysis environment for the neutron scattering instruments is to provide a software framework that has common and generic...
Dr
Benjamin Watts
(Paul Scherrer Institute)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
Scanning transmission X-ray spectro-microscopy (STXM) is a synchrotron-based materials analysis technique that provides high resolution imaging with strong, natural contrast based on various X-ray spectroscopic effects. STXM experiments involve focusing a monochromatic X-ray beam onto a thin sample and measuring the amount of transmitted radiation - this provides a single pixel of an image...
Dr
Frederick Akeroyd
(STFC),
Matthew Jones
(ISIS/RAL)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
Viewing and reducing event data “live” during an experiment is an increasingly important part of experiment control. At ISIS we had developed a simple TCP streamer mechanism that allowed data to be processed by Mantid during an experiment, but this was limited to just the neutron events and was likely to encounter performance issues with our new generation acquisition hardware. As part of an...
Dr
Stephen King
(ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
There are many data analysis packages for the different X-ray and neutron scattering techniques; for small-angle scattering (SAXS/SANS) alone there are something in the region of 50! [1] These packages bring many challenges, but most notably the challenges of: sustaining development *and support*, providing for *and maintaining* cross-platform deployment, utilising multi-processor compute...
Dr
Georgios Kourousias
(Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste), Mr
Roberto Borghes
(Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
We present a concrete example of research and development of a set of computational methods and the challenges faced for integrating them in the control system and workflow of a synchrotron beamline in operation.
An important computational operation in a set of spectra is that of aligning them to a reference spectrum. In X-ray Fluorescence this is referred to as energy calibration and may...
Dr
Timothy Spain
(Diamond Light Source Ltd.)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The XPDF project aims to provide a hands-off data service for users to produce X-ray Pair Distribution Function data. The software will be accessible to non-expert users, allowing scientists from a variety of disciplines to get PDF data without knowledge of the details of X-ray powder diffraction and with minimal intervention from beamline staff. The software for the project uses several of...
Mr
Evens Moraba
(Necsa SOC Limited)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
Neutron imaging is becoming an increasingly important diagnostic technique due to its complementary nature to X-ray imaging. The technique is employed in a wide range of applications in science and engineering [1–2]. Focussing of the CCD camera based neutron radiography (N-Rad) detector system is one of the keys to optimal data acquisition required for successful analysis of radiographs. The...
Mr
David Keymer
(STFC)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
ISIS has a variety of neutron choppers present across the instrument suite, and these need to be remotely controllable by the scientists performing experiments. We will cover the various chopper models currently in use, how they are controlled (on both LabVIEW and EPICS based instruments), and the interface provided to the end user.
Dr
Anders Markvardsen
(ISIS neutron & muon source, STFC)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
Fitting is the process of trying to fit a mathematical model or
function to some data, where the data may originate from measurements
at beamlines or simulations. A simple example could be the problem of
fitting a polynomial background function plus a set of peak functions
to a spectrum. Fitting is commonly a core functionality in neutron,
muon and x-ray data reduction and analysis...
Mr
Kevin Savage
(Diamond Light Source)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
eBIC (electron Bio-Imaging Centre, http://diamond.ac.uk/Science/Integrated-facilities/eBIC.html) at Diamond Light Source provides scientists with state-of-the-art experimental equipment and expertise in the field of cryo-electron microscopy, for single particle analysis and cryo-tomography. Currently two powerful cryo-electron microscopes allow users to investigate the structure of individual...
Mr
Ming Tang
(Institute of High Energy Physics)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The design philosophy of data management system for China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is data safety, user convenience, and big-data sharing. Under the considerations, the four main parts are covered: data transfer, data storage, metadata catalogue, and data access.
The high-speed and highly reliable data transfer service is developed. It will handle with the data delivery among...
Mr
Lamar Moore
(STFC/ISIS)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
L. Moore1, O. Arnold1,2, K. Kanaki3, T. Nielsen3, J. Taylor3, M. Hart1
1. ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
2. Tessella plc, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK
3. European Spallation Source, Lund, Sweden
The LOKI instrument, for broadband Small Angle Neutron Scattering, is currently under development for...
Dr
Antti Soininen
(ILL), Dr
Gagik Vardanyan
(ILL), Dr
Ian Bush
(Tessella / ILL), Mrs
Verena Reimund
(ILL)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The ILL have begun a project to phase out the use of their existing data reduction software, LAMP [1], and begin to use the Mantid Framework [2]. Some of the first work being undertaken in the Mantid adoption project is to compare the reduction output between LAMP and Mantid. In some cases, such as loading of the raw data, an identical output could be expected. In other cases it might be...
Dr
Shelly Ren
(ORNL)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
How do we leverage the sample, the sample environment, and the instrument configuration data that is available in various systems to assist data processing? How do we plan an experiment and characterize corresponding scan modes like “transmission”, and scan types like “sample”, “background” and “media” to support metadata mining? How do we use cataloged metadata to enable automated data...
Afonso Mukai
(European Spallation Source ERIC)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
A data aggregation and streaming software system is being developed at the ESS Data Management and Software Centre as part of the BrightnESS project, with ISIS as an in-kind partner. Data produced by sources such as detector event formation systems, sample environment, motion control and choppers will be aggregated by the system, to be consumed by software performing tasks including live data...
Mr
David Mannicke
(ANSTO)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
Tired of managing piles of paper logbooks for your instrument? Now you can make instrument journals electronically. The Electronic Notebook application developed by the Gumtree team is available to help instrument scientists to write and to manage their instrument logs. This application has been used by the SANS instruments in ANSTO. And it is accepted as an easy, standardised, and secure way...
Mr
Paul Martin
(Australian Synchrotron)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The EPICS Qt Framework is used at the Australian Synchrotron to build GUI Applications for the control of beamlines. This includes EPICS-aware widgets, as well as a simple XML based definition of the application menu structure which allows customized applications to be constructed easily and quickly without the need for writing code. By creating reusable Qt components and forms to support...
Martin Shetty
(European Spallation Source ERIC)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The Macromolecular Diffractometer (NMX) instrument at the European Spallation Source will use novel Gadolinium gas electron multiplier (GEM) detectors for improved efficiency and spatial resolution. In the data acquisition chain, a software event formation step will deduce position and time of an incident neutron from charge deposition data by means of the time projection chamber (uTPC)...
Dr
Peter Peterson
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
Mantid[1] is a joint collaboration between ESS, ISIS and ORNL. One of the main features of this framework is the possibility to use event data. Event data allows using novel techniques, such as asynchronous parameter scans, including temperature, magnetic field, and pump probed experiments. Mantid allows for the separation of measurement setup from the way the data is processed and,...
Leonid Flaks
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
**From the Dream to Reality: Macromolecular Crystallography at NSLS2 System Administrator View.**
*Leon Flaks*
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Bldg 741, NSLS2 BNL Upton, NY 11973 USA
Back in 2014 we reported our plans for macromolecular crystallography at NOBUGS 2014. Now it is time to discuss what we have accomplished since that time. Two MX beamlines have seen first light, first...
Dr
Ivars Karpics
(EMBL Hamburg)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The EMBL Hamburg outstation, located at DESY campus (Hamburg Germany), operates two macromolecular crystallography (MX) beamlines P13 and P14. Both beamlines are equipped with high-end instrumentation like adaptive optics, configurable compound refractive lenses, beam conditioning units, kappa goniostats, Pilatus detectors, and automatic sample changers to fulfill the needs of the MX...
Vickie Lynch
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
There are many methods for integrating single crystal peaks, but most have problems finding the volume in which to integrate the peaks. Also many peaks are near the edge of detectors or between detectors and the integrated intensity is underestimated. New work has been done to improve the integration volumes for peaks from single crystal instruments that have tens of thousands of peaks with...
Dr
Takeshi Nakatani
(J-PARC)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
Neutron and muon experimental instruments in Materials and Life science experimental Facility (MLF), Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) carry out many kinds of measurements and produce an enormous number of experimental data, such as raw data and metadata representing measurement conditions, by a lot of external users from not only academic but also industry. It is important to...
Dr
Sandor Brockhauser
(EuXFEL)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The European XFEL is a 3.4 km long X-ray Free Electron Laser in its final construction and commissioning phase in Hamburg. It will produce spatially coherent X-rays in the energy range between 0.25 keV and 25 keV. The machine will deliver 10 trains/s, consisting of up to 2700 pulses/trains at 4.5MHz repetition rate. In 2015 a first electron beam was produced in the RF-photo-injector and the...
Dr
Erik Knudsen
(DTU Physics)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
[McXtrace][1] [1][2] is a Monte Carlo Ray tracing package for performing simulations of any kind of X-ray optical instrumentation or scattering experiment. We present the latest results obtained using the new release McXtrace version 1.3.
Some highlights of simulations using McXtrace include:
1. McXtrace in space - simulations of an X-ray telescope satellite ATHENA [3].
(See image)
...
Dr
Steven Hahn
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
Software applications make choices that balance offering simplicity for novice users with maintaining sufficient flexibility for advanced use cases. SpinWaveGenie, a library of reusable building blocks for performing linear spin wave calculations, derives its customizability from having users write small programs directly calling these classes. In this poster, I will discuss how we have...
Mr
Peter Willendrup
(DTU Physics)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The [McStas][1] neutron ray-tracing simulation package is a versatile tool for producing accurate simulations of neutron scattering instruments at reactors, short- and long-pulsed spallation sources such as the European Spallation Source. McStas It is extensively used for design and optimization of instruments, virtual experiments, data analysis and user training. McStas was founded as an...
Guifré Cuní
(CELLS-ALBA)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
On-Axis-View (OAV) is a python library designed to develop applications to visualize, monitor and control the sample environment of a general experimental end-station, and is being used in several beamlines at ALBA Synchrotron.
Many X-Ray experiments performed in a synchrotron facility (like Protein Crystallography, Non Crystalline Diffraction or Powder Diffraction experiments) require a...
Céline Durniak
(European Spallation Source ERIC)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
Extracting scientific results from neutron experiments requires a challenging multiple-step treatment of the data, starting from the reduction and followed by the analysis. In order to simplify some of the repetitive procedures, automated and real time data reduction based on Mantid [1] has been tested at the Spallation Neutron Source and ISIS [2]. The second stage, the data analysis, can also...
Dr
Andrey Kirilov
(FLNP of JINR)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
Python programming language/1/ is popular, in particular for the programming and control systems as a basic programming language /2,3/ and as a language for programming user interfaces (GUI)/4/. In the programming complex Sonix+/5/. Python successfully used for both of these. The presentation will be devoted to some nice language features useful for programming instrument control...
Mr
Kentaro Moriyama
(Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The MLF Experimental Database (MLF EXP-DB) is a core system aimed at delivering advanced services for data management and data access in J-PARC/MLF [1]. The main role of this system is to safely and efficiently manage a huge amount of data created in neutron instruments, and provide an effective data access for facility users promoting the creation of scientific results. The system is a...
Mr
Nicholas Schwarz
(Argonne National Laboratory)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The APS continues to develop the *RSMap3D* software package, a general-purpose tool for reciprocal-space mapping. The tool allows users to examine the volume of collected data and select portions on which to apply transformations that convert detector pixel locations from diffractometer geometry to reciprocal-space units, and then map pixel data on to a 3D reciprocal-space grid. *RSMap3D* can...
Mr
Deon Marais
(Necsa SOC Limited)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
Time efficient and accurate sample positioning with reference to the neutron gauge volume are important parameters on diffraction based strain scanner instruments. Traditionally sample alignment to the neutron gauge volume is performed by beam entry or wall scans and fitting of the diffracted neutron intensity values (as a function of relative position) to an analytical solution. Using this...
Dr
Anton Piccardo-Selg
(Tessella, ISIS)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The Mantid Project’s software framework provides general support for visualization and data reduction of neutron scattering and muon spin measurements [1]. It allows the users to implement their own custom analysis algorithms and reduction routines. For several scientific areas, such as Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS), simple and efficient custom interfaces with tailored data reduction...
Dr
Xiao Xiao Cai
(ESS/DTU)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
NCrystal is a Monte Carlo software package that we developed for slow neutron interactions with single- and poly-crystals. Together with the inelastic scattering models in NCrystal, the Bragg diffraction model provides detailed microscopic description of the neutron transport in crystals. We only show the single-crystal capabilities in our newly developed NCrystal Geant4 extension in this...
Dr
Rong Du
(China Spallation Neutron Source, Institute of High Energy Physics)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
A high-extendable distributed data processing suit for neutron experiments (DroNE) is developed in C++, which will server for the online data manipulation and analysis of neutron scattering instruments. The loosely-coupled distributed architecture is used to meet multi-discipline research demands at China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS).
The software provides flexible Python/Java APIs,...
Dr
V. Armando SOLE
(ESRF)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) has identified data analysis and management as a key priority and is going to devote 45 years of additional full-time-equivalent man power to that purpose in the 2016-2022 period.
Among the expected deliverables, there is a set of tools to simplify development and maintenance of scientific applications. The silx toolkit (www.silx.org) tries...
Dr
Andrey Kirilov
(FLNP of JINR)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The software package Sonix + (Sonix) / 1 / developed as a unified control software for neutron instgruments. It has been in operation since 1995. Currently it is used at instruments of the IBR-2 (FLNP, JINR), as well at some instruments at other centers of the Russian Federation (totaly about 20 installations).
Though the main ideas of the Sonix + are largely similar to the decisions taken...
Mr
Ivan Morkovnikov
(JINR)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The presentation is devoted to the WebSonix service/1/ which is used for remote instrument monitoring at the IBR-2 reactor at FLNP together with instrument control software Sonix+/2/ since 2013. Currently, the service has been successfully used at 8 spectrometers. However, during the operation several problems have been revealed that suggest to make some correction. These correction cocerned...
Dr
Nicholas Draper
(Tessella)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
Interest in neutron imaging in general and energy resolved neutron
imaging in particular has been growing in recent years. Several
imaging instruments are currently in different stages of planning,
construction, commissioning and operation at pulsed neutron sources
around the world, such as IMAT at ISIS (UK), ODIN at ESS (Nordic
countries), RADEN at J-PARC (Japan), and VENUS at SNS...
Dr
Michele Brambilla
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The RITA2 instrument is a triple axis spectrometer installed at the Swiss Spallation Neutron Source SINQ. Its electronics dates back to the 80’s and required a renovation. As a part of the upgrade program RITA2 has been equipped with 2nd generation electronics and data acquisition based on event streaming.
In the framework of the BrightnESS project the DAQ software has been upgraded to make...
Dr
Mark Koennecke
(Paul Scherrer Institute)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
Using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tools has the advantage of both documenting the working of the tested system and providing for an executable test. This contribution shows how this works and how we applied BDD to retrofit automatic testing to an existing control system (SICS) which had been developed when no one talked about test driven development yet.
Mr
Peter Parker
(ORNL)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
A significant problem affecting software developers is the difference in operating system, runtime dependencies and external services that can occur between local development environments and the environments in which software is actually deployed. This has consequences in terms of the increased software complexity required to account for these differences, and/or the effort necessary to...
Dr
Yasuhiro Inamura
(Japan Atomic Energy Agency, J-PARC)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
We report the current status of software development about "Utsusemi" and its applications for the effective utilization of event-recording data on the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF), the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC).
"Utsusemi" is the one of analysis software frameworks utilized for the data reduction and visualization in MLF, including...
Mr
Owen Arnold
(ISIS)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The separation of collected data, from the geometry of the instrument setup has proven to be a core strength in the Mantid Framework[1], a data reduction application used extensively at time-of-flight neutron sources around the world. The virtual instrument that Mantid supports allows for many geometric operations to be performed without any knowledge or assumptions on the actual instrument...
Lajos Schrettner
(ELI-ALPS),
Tamás Gaizer
(ELI-ALPS)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The management of a research institution is a complex task.
The challenges are even higher when multiple independently developing infrastructures have to be merged into a common European research centre.
This is what ELITRANS aims at: the goal of this Horizon 2020 project is to merge the three currently developing laser infrastructures,
namely ELI-ALPS in Hungary, ELI-Beamlines in the...
Dr
Stuart Campbell
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
The vibrational spectrometer (VISION) at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is the world's first high-throughput inelastic neutron scattering instrument. With it's high throughput, VISION is facing the challenge of timely data analysis and interpretation. The aim of VirtuES (Virtual Experiments in Spectroscopy) is to effectively meet this challenge, by...
Mr
Marcin Wojdyr
(CCP4 & Diamond Light Source)
17/10/2016, 17:00
Poster
Only 5 years after the first WebGL-based molecular graphics program, [GLmol](http://webglmol.osdn.jp/index-en.html), was created, this space is quite crowded now, with more than 10 open-source WebGL macromolecular viewers developed across the world. Despite of this, we felt that none of them can present electron density well enough to replace desktop programs, so to fill this gap we started to...
