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Prof. Kell Mortensen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen), Dr Peter Peterson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Tobias Richter (European Spallation Source ERIC)17/10/2016, 09:00
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Dr Ken Museth (DreamWorks & SpaceX)17/10/2016, 09:30Oral ContributionIn this presentation I'll share some of my personal experiences related to the tricky business of scooping, managing, developing and deploying technical software in various contexts. The main focus will be on industrial production environments as well as an open source project you have likely never heard of, but almost certainly seen on the big screen. This project, dubbed OpenVDB, is a C++...Go to contribution page
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Andy Gotz (ESRF)17/10/2016, 10:50Oral Contributionby Alex de Maria, Armando Solé, and Andy Gotz on behalf of the ESRF Data Policy Implementation Team The ESRF, the European Synchroton, has recently adopted a Data Policy which will archive all data collected at the ESRF for 10 years and be made freely available as Open Data after an initial embargo period of 3 years (can be extended on request). Currently the ESRF produces 2 PBs of raw data...Go to contribution page
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Dr Stephen M Fisher (RAL - STFC)17/10/2016, 11:10Oral ContributionThe ICAT project provides a metadata catalogue and related components to support Large Facility experimental data and aspires to link all aspects of the research chain from proposal through to publication and can also be used to provide an implementation of a data policy as has been done at a number of facilities using ICAT. Over the last couple of years, the existing components of ICAT...Go to contribution page
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Mr Frazer Barnsley (STFC)17/10/2016, 11:30Oral ContributionModern instruments and detectors are capable of capturing large amounts of data in one scan, and experiments are becoming more sophisticated, with multiple techniques applied at once or dynamic structures such as chemical reactions being recorded. Data volumes have now grown so large that in many cases it is simply not practical for users to transport the data to their home institution. In...Go to contribution page
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Dr Martin Rehr (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)17/10/2016, 11:50Oral ContributionThe Image Data Management System (IDMS) is a platform for data management, data analysis and data visualization. Storing, processing and visualizing scientific image data-sets is a challenge because the data streams from the large X-Ray and neutron facilities increase at a rate exceeding the rate in which generic disk drives grow. Furthermore processing and visualizing these image data-sets...Go to contribution page
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Mr Milan Prica (Elettra)17/10/2016, 12:10Oral ContributionElettra-Sincrotrone Trieste comprises Elettra synchrotron and FERMI free-electron laser. Combined, the two facilities serve 34 beamlines. The Scientific Computing Team supports the full data lifecycle. Proposal submission and evaluation are handled in the Virtual Unified Office. Data acquisition and experimental control are built on top of the TANGO control system on all but the oldest...Go to contribution page
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Mr Nicholas Schwarz (Argonne National Laboratory)17/10/2016, 12:30Mini OralDemands for increased computing at synchrotron facilities are driven by new scientific opportunities often enabled by technological advances in detectors, as well as advances in data analysis algorithms. These advances generate larger amounts of data, which in turn require more computing power in order to obtain near real-time results. An example where advances in computation are critical is...Go to contribution page
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Dr Garrett Granroth (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)17/10/2016, 13:30Oral ContributionA new generation of instruments has resulted in increased complexity at all levels of the data chain. Furthermore, the experiments on these instruments, and the desire to compare the results to more detailed models, leads to a very large and diverse computational environment. Yet our goal is to facilitate the use of such facilities to expedite the users’ knowledge production. This contribution...Go to contribution page
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Dr Nicola Wadeson (Diamond Light Source UK)17/10/2016, 13:50Oral ContributionSavu is an open-source, portable, tomography reconstruction and processing pipeline developed at the Diamond Light Source as a post-processing tool for tomography data collected with a parallel beam geometry. Written in object-oriented python, it runs in parallel using mpi-based cluster computing or serially on a PC. The parallel HDF5 backend handles big data, and the design allows...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Brian Vinter (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)17/10/2016, 14:10Oral ContributionIn business, Big Data analysis is most often managed with the Hadoop system[1]. The popularity of Hadoop has made the system well known and widely supported. Thus as may be expected, the use of Hadoop for scientific data analysis has also been widely investigated[2][3]. Hadoop however, has several design choices that makes is less than optimal for scientific data processing. Most importantly...Go to contribution page
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Dr Wojciech Potrzebowski (European Spallation Source ERIC, Data Management and Software Center)17/10/2016, 14:30Oral ContributionSasView is a well-established open source, collaboratively developed software for the analysis and the modeling of small angle scattering (SAS) data. The core functionality of SasView includes the fitting of model functions, pair-distance distribution function inversion and model-independent analysis. SasView provides a large collection of form and structure factors and with the recently...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jacob Filik (Diamond Light Source)17/10/2016, 14:50Mini OralDAWN is a free, multiplatform, open source, data analysis workbench built from the core mathematical and visualisation components of Diamond’s data acquisition software GDA (Generic Data Acquisition). Over the last few years, major new features have been added to DAWN to attempt to meet the diverse data processing requirements across the beamlines at Diamond, initially focusing on 2D powder...Go to contribution page
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Mads Kristensen (Niels Bohr Institute, UCPH)17/10/2016, 14:55Mini OralThe Bohrium runtime system exploits an array programming approach from a high-level language to extract parallelism and accelerate execution on a variety of hardware setups. By presenting the user with an array programming abstraction, it is possible to extract a high level of parallelism without requiring the programmer to adjust the program to fit the current execution environment. ...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jess Wellendorff (QuantumWise A/S)17/10/2016, 15:00Mini OralThe Virtual NanoLab (VNL) was initially developed as a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to QuantumWise’s atomic-scale simulation tools, the Atomistix ToolKit (ATK). In the last years the GUI has been transformed into a platform which through a number of open source plugins can be interfaced to almost any scientific simulation software. The software is now free for academic researchers. In...Go to contribution page
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Dr Carsten Fortmann-Grote (European XFEL GmbH, Schenefeld, Germany)17/10/2016, 15:30Oral ContributionRealistic simulations of experiments at large scale photon facilities, such as optical laser laboratories, synchrotrons, and Free Electron Lasers, are of vital importance for the successful preparation, execution, and analysis of these experiments investigating ever more complex physical systems, e.g. biomolecules, complex materials, and ultrashort lived states of highly excited matter....Go to contribution page
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Mr Peter Willendrup (DTU Physics)17/10/2016, 15:50Oral Contribution**Abstract:** The topic of this presentation is an integration task, based on the three well-known neutron scattering softwares [McStas][1], [SASview][2] and [Mantid][3]. We will show a "full-circle" virtual SANS experiment where we combine - An arbitrary SASview scattering kernel - Instrument resolution realism from McStas - ToF event analysis in Mantid - Re-retrieve the initial...Go to contribution page
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Sergey Yakubov (DESY)17/10/2016, 16:10Oral ContributionTraditionally, virtual machines are used to emulate a specific operating system, providing complete isolation from the underlying hardware/software. They are used, for example, by system administrators to optimize resource usage allowing several isolated services be executed on different virtual machines running on the same physical machine, by DevOps to provide a desired environment for...Go to contribution page
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Steven Hahn (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)17/10/2016, 16:30Oral ContributionLarge multidimensional neutron scattering datasets are routinely collected at neutron scattering facilities. Compared to other imaging tasks, the unique characteristics of neutron scattering data including binning along non-orthogonal axes and the need to distinguish between points with zero intensity and ones without detector coverage. Meeting user expectations to interactively visualize and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jiro Suzuki (KEK, J-PARC)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterWe 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Benjamin Watts (Paul Scherrer Institute)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterScanning 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Frederick Akeroyd (STFC), Matthew Jones (ISIS/RAL)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterViewing 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Stephen King (ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThere 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Georgios Kourousias (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste), Mr Roberto Borghes (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterWe 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Timothy Spain (Diamond Light Source Ltd.)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Mr Evens Moraba (Necsa SOC Limited)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterNeutron 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...Go to contribution page
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Mr David Keymer (STFC)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterISIS 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.Go to contribution page
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Dr Anders Markvardsen (ISIS neutron & muon source, STFC)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterFitting 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...Go to contribution page
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Mr Kevin Savage (Diamond Light Source)17/10/2016, 17:00PostereBIC (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...Go to contribution page
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Mr Ming Tang (Institute of High Energy Physics)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Mr Lamar Moore (STFC/ISIS)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterL. 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Antti Soininen (ILL), Dr Gagik Vardanyan (ILL), Dr Ian Bush (Tessella / ILL), Mrs Verena Reimund (ILL)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Shelly Ren (ORNL)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterHow 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...Go to contribution page
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Afonso Mukai (European Spallation Source ERIC)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterA 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...Go to contribution page
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Mr David Mannicke (ANSTO)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterTired 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...Go to contribution page
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Mr Paul Martin (Australian Synchrotron)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Martin Shetty (European Spallation Source ERIC)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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)...Go to contribution page
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Dr Peter Peterson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterMantid[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,...Go to contribution page
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Leonid Flaks (Brookhaven National Laboratory)17/10/2016, 17:00Poster**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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ivars Karpics (EMBL Hamburg)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Vickie Lynch (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThere 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Takeshi Nakatani (J-PARC)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterNeutron 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sandor Brockhauser (EuXFEL)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Erik Knudsen (DTU Physics)17/10/2016, 17:00Poster[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) ...Go to contribution page
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Dr Steven Hahn (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterSoftware 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...Go to contribution page
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Mr Peter Willendrup (DTU Physics)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe [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...Go to contribution page
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Guifré Cuní (CELLS-ALBA)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterOn-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...Go to contribution page
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Céline Durniak (European Spallation Source ERIC)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterExtracting 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Andrey Kirilov (FLNP of JINR)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterPython 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...Go to contribution page
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Mr Kentaro Moriyama (Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Mr Nicholas Schwarz (Argonne National Laboratory)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Mr Deon Marais (Necsa SOC Limited)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterTime 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Anton Piccardo-Selg (Tessella, ISIS)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Xiao Xiao Cai (ESS/DTU)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterNCrystal 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Rong Du (China Spallation Neutron Source, Institute of High Energy Physics)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterA 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,...Go to contribution page
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Dr V. Armando SOLE (ESRF)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Andrey Kirilov (FLNP of JINR)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Mr Ivan Morkovnikov (JINR)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Nicholas Draper (Tessella)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterInterest 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Michele Brambilla (Paul Scherrer Institut)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mark Koennecke (Paul Scherrer Institute)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterUsing 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.Go to contribution page
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Mr Peter Parker (ORNL)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterA 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Yasuhiro Inamura (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, J-PARC)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterWe 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...Go to contribution page
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Mr Owen Arnold (ISIS)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Lajos Schrettner (ELI-ALPS), Tamás Gaizer (ELI-ALPS)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Stuart Campbell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Mr Marcin Wojdyr (CCP4 & Diamond Light Source)17/10/2016, 17:00PosterOnly 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...Go to contribution page
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Mr Adam Tornhill (Empear AB)18/10/2016, 08:30Oral ContributionIn this keynote you'll learn novel techniques that help you make sense of large codebases. You'll learn to identify the code that really matters for your ability to maintain a codebase, how to prioritize improvements and even evaluate your architecture based on how you actually work with the code. We'll also cover the people side of programming as you learn to mine social information such as...Go to contribution page
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Dr Thomas Proffen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)18/10/2016, 09:30Oral ContributionScientific publications are and will remain the primary source to measure scientific impact. However, the simple metric of publications, citations and journals impact is largely ignoring societal impact and becomes increasingly inappropriate for facilities, application developers or primary scientific data [1]. Principles of Open Access are more and more extended towards scientific data,...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ian Bush (Tessella / ILL)18/10/2016, 09:50Oral ContributionAt the ILL LAMP (Large Array Manipulation Program) [1] has been the primary package responsible for data reduction for over 20 years. LAMP is based on IDL, so works across multiple platforms, and provides a graphical user interface and scripting capabilities for data treatment. It provides support for most of the instruments at ILL, having the ability to handle data produced at the ILL since...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mikel Eguiraun (Maxlab)18/10/2016, 10:40Oral ContributionThe MXCuBE project started in 2005 at ESRF [1], with the objective of providing crystallography beamlines’ users an easy-to-use software platform to run their experiments. The current MXCuBE is based on PyQt, however the usage of old PyQt libraries, as well as the lack of a clear separation between the application control logic and the graphical layer makes it very difficult to maintain,...Go to contribution page
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Mr Simon Gregor Ebner (Paul Scherrer Institute)18/10/2016, 11:00Oral ContributionA new Data Acquisition system is being developed and commissioned for the upcoming FEL at PSI. This system is based on several novel concepts and technologies, and it targets at immediate data availability and online processing. The system is capable of assembling an overall data view of the whole machine thanks to the distributed and scalable buffering back-end. Load on data sources is...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sergey Stepanov (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA)18/10/2016, 11:20Oral ContributionFast detectors revolutionize many operations at macromolecular crystallography beamlines, from introducing shutterless data collection and on-the-fly rastering scans to new standards for beamline stability, detector-goniometer synchronization at 100Hz data collection, and new ways to display data (e.g. plotting spots count in addition to visual inspection of individual frames). Fast crystal...Go to contribution page
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Dr Frederick Akeroyd (STFC)18/10/2016, 11:40Oral ContributionInstrument control at ISIS is in the process of migrating from a mainly locally developed LabVIEW based system to an EPICS based one. The new control system, called IBEX, was initially used during commissioning of two new instruments, but is now being used on production systems. We will cover the architecture and design of the new control system, our choices of technologies, current status,...Go to contribution page
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Dr Elena Litvinenko (JINR)18/10/2016, 12:00Oral ContributionA detector group of a neutron center has to solve daily a variety of non-typical tasks. These tasks may appear due to the configuration and commissioning of detectors, search for causes of faults, or with the development of new methodologies and the preparation of new types of experiments. That is why the requirements to the software from the detector group are specific and varied. The user...Go to contribution page
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Dr JUNRONG ZHANG (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)18/10/2016, 13:30Oral ContributionThe data analysis & management system at China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) adopts the sophisticated designs and the existing resources from various big-science facilities. The software for each beamline will be developed and deployed in the unified framework. Both facility and users can benefit from it. Under the strategy, a distributed data processing framework (DroNE) and message...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ricardo Ferraz Leal (SNS)18/10/2016, 13:50Oral ContributionNeutron scattering is one of the most effective ways to obtain information on both, the structure and the dynamics of condensed matter. The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is an accelerator-based neutron source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (TN, USA). This facility provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development....Go to contribution page
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Mr Nicholas Schwarz (Argonne National Laboratory)18/10/2016, 14:10Oral ContributionHigh-performance data analysis software and computing infrastructure are of particular importance for synchrotron facility productivity. Demands for increased computing at user facilities is driven by new scientific opportunities enabled by new measurement techniques, technological advances in detectors, multi-modal data utilization, and advances in data analysis algorithms. The proposed...Go to contribution page
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Dr Markus Gerstel (Diamond Light Source Ltd)18/10/2016, 14:30Oral ContributionA proposal for the future data analysis infrastructure at Diamond Light Source is presented. Built on a messaging framework a variable number of distributed servers working in parallel replaces monolithic batch jobs running on a single node. This infrastructure is scalable, can be easily extended, and even allows moving heavily CPU-bound tasks, such as the processing of reduced macromolecular...Go to contribution page
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Dr Bill Pulford (Dimaond Light Source)18/10/2016, 14:50Oral ContributionDiamond Light Source, the UK national synchrotron, is used by many thousands of researchers from the UK and many other countries each year. It works like a giant microscope, harnessing the power of electrons to produce bright light that can be used to study anything from fossils to jet engines to viruses and vaccines. Frequently the boundaries of the research extend across many other...Go to contribution page
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Dr Brian Ritchie (RAL - STFC)18/10/2016, 15:10Oral ContributionThe ICAT Job Portal (IJP) allows users to create and submit jobs to HPC resources or compute farms, taking as inputs datasets and datafiles selected using ICAT catalog searches, with jobs using the ICAT Data Service for data access. Jobs are specified via Job Types, where each Job Type defines: whether a job is interactive or can be run as a batch job; the dataset types for which a job...Go to contribution page
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Mr Roberto Borghes (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)18/10/2016, 16:00Oral ContributionSynchrotron and Free Electron Laser beamlines consist of a complex network of devices. Such devices can be sensors, detectors, motors, but also computational resources. The setup is not static and is often upgraded. The data acquisition systems are constantly challenged by such continues changes and upgrades, so a constant evolution of software technologies is necessary. DonkiOrchestra is a...Go to contribution page
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Mr David Mannicke (ANSTO)18/10/2016, 16:20Oral ContributionGumtree is a software product developed at ANSTO and used for experimental control as well as data visualization and treatment. In order to simplify the interaction with instruments and optimize the available time for users, a user friendly multi sample workflow has been developed for Gumtree. Within this workflow users follow a step by step guide where they list available samples, setup...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mark Basham (Diamond Light Source)18/10/2016, 16:40Oral ContributionDiamond Light Source is not alone in having multiple beamlines capable of conducting X-Ray mapping style experiments. These experiments involve moving a sample through the X-Ray beam, and collecting the result of the interaction on one or more detectors. As the mapping techniques themselves become more advanced, and the expectations of users increase with requirements for real time feedback...Go to contribution page
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Dr Justyna Aleksandra Wojdyla (Paul Scherrer Institut)18/10/2016, 17:00Oral ContributionData acquisition software is an essential component of modern macromolecular crystallography (MX) beamlines, allowing for efficient use of beamtime at synchrotron facilities. Coupled with our highly distributed automatic data processing routines it allows assessment of data quality on the fly. Developed at the Paul Scherrer Institut, the DA+ data acquisition software is implemented at all...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ricardo Ribalda Delgado (Qtechnology A/S)19/10/2016, 08:30Oral ContributionCurrent Imaging sensors have amazing capabilities: Big resolutions, High Frame Rate, Hyperspectral Vision.... This is revolutionizing the industry with new applications such as 3D inspection or real time Chemical content detection. It is also changing the way we process images, a 12 Megapixel sensor produces as much as 4.8 GiB/s, or 16 times the data generated by the "interesting events" of...Go to contribution page
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Michael Wedel (European Spallation Source ERIC)19/10/2016, 09:30Oral ContributionOver the last years, powerful mobile computing devices with internet access such as smart phones and tablets have become ubiquitous. In parallel, new software and services have emerged that provide a multitude of possibilities to exchange one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-one information. This combination of hardware and software forms an enormous infrastructure that is capable of...Go to contribution page
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Mr Deon Marais (Necsa SOC Limited)19/10/2016, 09:50Mini OralPersonnel safety is of primary importance at beam-line facilities at nuclear research installations which includes the establishment of a safe working environment and minimizing the risk of accidental exposure to ionizing radiation [1]. This can be achieved through robust engineering design of independent safety systems as well as following pre-determined safe working procedures. The...Go to contribution page
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Tobias Richter (European Spallation Source ERIC)19/10/2016, 09:55Mini OralThis is the traditional NOBUGS update on the NeXus data format for neutron, muon and x-ray science. With steadily increasing adoption at facilities, NeXus is facing a number of challenges between developing the standard for new and future experiments while maintaining backward compatibility to data collected in the past. There are also different use cases that call for flexible and human...Go to contribution page
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Mr Carlos Pascual-Izarra (Alba Synchrotron)19/10/2016, 10:30Oral ContributionOn the one hand, science is about openness and collaboration and, on the other hand, open and community-driven software projects have demonstrated to yield more generic and resilient solutions thanks to the diverse users’ needs and feedback. Yet, the development of many scientific software projects (even free/open-source ones) is still managed in a closed way, typically by one or few people...Go to contribution page
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Dr Peter Peterson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)19/10/2016, 10:50Oral ContributionCollaborative software provides for improved community engagement, better reliability, and continued development. These benefits come with additional costs to effective communication. For a project developed by a distributed team to be successful, it must adopt strategies to overcome communication issues. Specifically, an effective distributed team must communicate where the project currently...Go to contribution page
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Raquel Alvarez (ISIS, STFC)19/10/2016, 11:10Oral ContributionFrom its inception, software quality has been at the forefront of concerns in Mantid[1], a scientific framework for reduction of neutron scattering data. The Mantid project was implemented with a long term future in mind, and the need to maintain quality and robustness while continuing to develop the framework has been a cornerstone in the project. As such, we have developed a comprehensive...Go to contribution page
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Mr Michael Hart (STFC)19/10/2016, 11:30Mini OralUser-facing instrument control software will be a critical component to the operation of the European Spallation Source (ESS) under construction in Sweden. The control software must be robust, proven, and well tested for day-one operations. A sequential approach to development, whereby the target hardware is procured, installed and made operational prior to the development of the control...Go to contribution page
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Dr Matthew Jones (STFC, Tessella)19/10/2016, 11:35Mini OralAt the ESS, data from each instrument will need to be transported elsewhere for use by various software packages which will perform tasks such as analysing the data, providing live visualisation or writing data files. To do this, an ESS and ISIS in-kind collaboration will implement a robust and high throughput streaming system. The data stream will largely comprise neutron events and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Shirley Crompton (Science and Technology Facilities Council)19/10/2016, 11:40Mini OralCCP4-DaaS is a research infrastructure project undertaken by the UK [Science and Technology Facilities Council][1] (STFC) to provide centralised computational facilities targeting the [CCP4][2] community of researchers in macromolecular crystallography. The project implements a Data Analysis as a Service (DaaS) framework, building on the [ICAT][3] stable of software tools for managing Large...Go to contribution page
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19/10/2016, 11:45Poster Prize Next Planned Venue Summary Announcements for ToursGo to contribution page
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