NOBUGS 2004 Conference

New Opportunities for Better User Group Software

October, 18-20, 2004 at PSI, Switzerland

NOBUGS 2004 Conference Program

NOBUGS 2004 has ended. Thank you to all speakers for their contributions. From this page you can do two things:

• Look at the abstracts given for a prsentation by clicking its title. From there you may also upload your paper. Please note, that it may take up to a week before your paper appeasr in the program for download.
• Download the corresponding paper when the text Download Paper is marked as a link.

Monday, October 18, Morning

Software Development,Auditorium,Chairman: Bob Sweet

8:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:15	Welcome by Prof R. Eichler; director of PSI
09:15-10:00	Elena Pourmal, Mike Folk, Bob McGrath HDF Software Process -- Lessons Learned	Download Paper
10:00-10:30	Nick Hauser, Andy Gotz Choosing an instrument control system for ANSTO	Download Paper
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-11:45	P.V. Hathaway, T. Lam, N. Hauser, A. Gotz, F. Franceschini An Integrated and Agile Approach to Delivering Extensible Instrument Control System Software at ANSTO	Download Paper
11:45-12:05	Mark Koennecke Limits to collaboration	Download Paper
12:05-12:25	Ron Ghosh Convergence or Divergence on Software Tools	Download Paper

Monday, October, 19, Afternoon

Protein Crystallography,Auditorium,Chairman: Mark Enderby

14:00-14:20	Sandor Brockhauser, Raimond Ravelli Control and Strategy Software for Mini-Kappa Diffractometer	Download Paper
14:20-14:40	S.Stepanov, O.Makarov, A.Urakhchin, U.Schwabe, C. Venkataraman, and R.Pugliese Architecture and highlights of control system for GM/CA CAT macromolecular crystallography beamlines	Download Paper
14:40-15:00	Chris Nielsen, Kazimierz Gofron, Krzysztof Lazarski, and Craig Ogata Continuous Mode Data Collection in Protein Crystallography	Download Paper
15:00-15:20	Rey-Bakaikoa, Vicente; Delageniere, Solange; Meyer , Jens; Spruce, Darren; Svensson, Olof Software Automation projects at ESRF beamlines	Download Paper
15:20-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-16:20	R.M. Sweet, D. Schneider, H. Robinson, J. Skinner, J. Jiang, R. Buono, M. Cowan, H. Bosshard, W. Nolan Methods, and software for high-throughput data collection in macromolecular crystallography the Brookhaven experience	Download Paper
16:20-16:40	John Skinner CBASS - BNL's Python-based Synchrotron Beamline and Experiment Control System	Download Paper
16:40-17:00	James Fait, John Chrzas, and Bill Lavender Graphical User Interface Design For High Throughput Crystallography	Download Paper

Data Formats and WWW-access,OSGA-Hoersaal,Chairman: Mark Koennecke

14:00-14:45	P.F. Peterson The State of NeXus	Download Paper
14:45-15:05	C M Moreton-Smith NXnet proposal - Your data, My data, collected anywhere, available anywhere	Download Paper
15:05-15:25	Kenneth Sharp An Infrastructure for Remote Applications for Macromolecular Crystallography at SSRL	Download Paper
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-16:30	Alain Bertrand, Renata Krempaska Scientific web interfaces using PHP and EPICS	Download Paper
16:30-16:50	R.R. Porter Issues of Access Control for Ancillary Equipment	Download Paper

Autotools Tutorial,WHGA-121,Chairman: Jens Krueger

14:00-17:00

Autotools tutorial

Visit to SINQ and SLS,SINQ,Chairman: NA

17:00-18:00

Visits to SINQ and SLS

Tuesday, October 19, Morning

Data Aquisition 1,Auditorium,Chairman: Tom Worlton

9:00-9:45	Matias Guijarro, Gilles Berruyer, Jorg Klora, Vicente Rey-Bakaikoa Bliss Framework	Download Paper
9:45-10:30	Richard Riedel Overview of Data Acquisition at the SNS	Download Paper
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-11:45	Mark Enderby, Bill Pulford SR Generic Data Acquisition Project Overview	Download Paper
11:45-12:05	Richard Woolliscroft GDA Demonstration and Scripting	Download Paper
12:05-12:25	Andy Gotz (ESRF) and Nick Hauser (ANSTO) Grand Unified Model for Control Systems - GUM	Download Paper
12:25-12:45	Mark Koennecke Common Command Line Interface to Instruments, A Proposal	Download Paper

Tuesday, October, 19, Afternoon

Data Aquisition 2,Auditorium,Chairman: Mark Johnson

14:00-14:20	Olof Svensson Automatic Beamline Alignment at the ESRF - present status and future perspectives	Download Paper
14:20-14:40	E.Kondrashkina, S.Kozyrenko, S.Devarapalli, S. Stepanov Integrated development environment for creating and executing customized beamline alignment	Download Paper
14:40-15:00	Toshiya OTOMO, Michihiro FURUSAKA, Masatoshi ARAI, Jiro SUZUKI, Shun SUZUKI, Atushi MANABE, Setsuya KAWABATA, Narutoshi KAWAMURA, Masao YONEMURA, Kenji NAKAJIMA, Takeshi NAKATANI, Shuki TORII, Ryoichi KAJIMOTO, Takashi OHARA, Tetsuo AOYAGI, Yoshitomo UNO Computing environment design at J-PARC/MLF	Download Paper
15:00-15:30	T. Lam, A. Götz, F. Franceschini, N. Hauser GumTree - A Java Based GUI Framework for Beamline Experiments	Download Paper
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-16:20	A.S.Kirilov, N.V.Astakhova, S.M.Murashkevich, T.B. Petukhova, V.E.Yudin Sonix+ - the new instrument control at the IBR-2 reactor	Download Paper
16:20-16:40	Thorsten Kracht Computing developments at Hasylab	Download Paper
16:40-17:00	J. Krueger, S. Huber, S. Roth, T. Unruh Instrument control software development at FRM-II	Download Paper
17:00-17:20	William Lavender Recent Developments for the MX Beamline Control Toolkit	Download Paper
17:20-17:40	N. C. Maliszewskyj, M. Doucet, S. Pheiffer ICE: New Instrument Control Software at the NCNR	Download Paper
17:40-18:00	Teresa Nunez, Thorsten Kracht, Kay Rehlich Computing at the VUV-FEL	Download Paper

Data Analysis 2 and Instrument Simulation,OSGA-Hoersaal,Chairman: Kim Lefmann

14:00-14:20	S. Stepanov WWW-accessed data analysis with X-ray Server	Download Paper
14:20-14:40	V.A. Sole, E. Papillon PyMCA: X-Ray Spectra Visualisation and Analysis in Python	Download Paper
14:40-15:00	Karen Ackroyd DNA - A System to Collect "Good" Data Automatically.	Download Paper
15:00-15:20	T. G. WORLTON, ,D. J. MIKKELSON, R. MIKKELSON, J. P. HAMMONDS, J. TAO, A. CHATTERJEE New Developments in Data Analysis at IPNS	Download Paper
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-16:20	E. Farhi, K. Lefmann and P. Willendrup, S. Jean, C , Taton, B. Rourre, V. Hugouvieux McStas developments	Download Paper
16:20-16:40	K. Lieutenant, G. Zsigmond, M. Fromme, S. Manoshin General features of the neutron instrument simulation package VITESS	Download Paper
16:40-17:00	G. Zsigmond (PSI), Th. Krist (HMI) Study of the polarising efficiency of transmission supermirror polarisers	Download Paper
17:00-17:20	E. Farhi, B. Roure, D. Richard, M. Johnson, J. Ollivier, V. Hugouvieux On-line real and simulated experiments on IN6: a reality	Download Paper
17:20-17:40	Elke Zimoch Protein Crystallography Beamline Simulation	Download Paper

Conference Dinner,NA,Chairman: NA

19:00-22:00

Conference Dinner at Turmrestaurant Zurzach

Wednesday, October, 20, Morning

Data Analysis,Auditorium,Chairman: Ron Ghosh

9:00-9:45	P.F. Peterson and S.D. Miller The NeSSI collaboration: one size fits all analysis software	Download Paper
9:45-10:30	Paul Kienzle, Przemek Klosowski Overview of the DANSE architecture	Download Paper
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-11:45	Mark Johnson, Ron Ghosh and Didier Richard, Computing for Science, ILL, Grenoble, France Materials modelling at large scale facilities	Download Paper
11:45-12:20	Andrew P Hammersley Porting Scientific Software Applications to Windows (or Not)	Download Paper

Wednesday, October, 20, Afternoon

Facility Management,Auditorium,Chairman: Ray Osborn

14:00-14:20	KNECHT M, BERTRAND A Administrative web interface using PHP: An architerctural view	Download Paper
14:20-14:40	J. Neuhaus, S. Galinski, J. Dettbarn, Z. Zhang User Office FRM-II, a PHP-Nuke based portal system for user management	Download Paper
14:40-15:00	Damian Flannery ISIS Data, Metadata, Proposals and the CCLRC Data Portal	Download Paper
15:00-15:20	(R.Pugliese), F.Bille', S.Maraspin, A.Curri, A. Busato, M.Turcinovich, V.Chenda Elettra Virtual Collaboratory: status and future developments	Download Paper
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break

Data Aquisition 4,OSGA-Hoersaal,Chairman: David Maden

14:00-14:20	Oleg Makarov, Sergey Stepanov EPICS software for Turbo PMAC2 motion controller: Provisions for much faster beamline.	Download Paper
14:20-14:40	Mark Rivers, Marty Kraimer, Eric Norum The "asyn" facility for EPICS drivers	Download Paper
14:40-15:00	Mark Rivers EPICS Support for X-ray Detectors	Download Paper
15:00-15:20	(F.Bille'), R.Borghes, R.Pugliese Network Attached Intelligent Instrumentation	Download Paper

Final Discussion,Auditorium,Chairman: NA

16:00-18:00

Final Discussion and Goodbye

Poster Session

Posters were displayed during the whole conference in the poster area at the auditorium.

Jinhu Song	Sample Automatic Mounting (SAM) system at SSRL	Download Paper
S. Manoshin, D. Clemens, K. Lieutenant, G. Zsigmond and F. Mezei	MC simulations of new VSANS spectrometer at the Hahn-Meitner-Institit Berlin	Download Paper
Fajin Yuan	Diamond Light Source	Download Paper
MikeMiller	The use of CVS in the context of the CCLRC/DLS GDA project	Download Paper
J. Krueger, A. Kastenmüller	Bridging serial and parallel interfaces by Ethernet	Download Paper
Geoff Mant & Richard Woolliscroft	Configuration of Java software using Castor	Download Paper
Paul Stephenson	A Generic Data Acquisition System	Download Paper
M. Cowan, et al	The PXDB: a relational database for experiment planning, tracking, etc	Download Paper
A.S.Kirilov	Script interpreter in the software complex Sonix+	Download Paper
Rob Dimeo, Richard Azuah, and Przemek Klosowski	DAVE: The Data Analysis and Visualization Environment	Download Paper