NOBUGS 2008 Conference

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NOBUGS 2008 Conference

New Opportunities for Better User Group Software

November 3-5, 2008 at ANSTO, Australia

Programme

Sunday 2nd November

18:00-19:00 Registration
19:00-20:00 Reception

Monday 3rd November

7:30-8:30 Registration and breakfast
8:30-8:45 Welcome. Rob Robinson. Acting Chief of Research. ANSTO.
8:45-11:30 Facility reports Chair Robert McGreevy
8:45 Overview of Diamond Light Source Acquisition and Analysis Bill Pulford abstract
presentation
9:10 Data Acquisition and Instrument Control at the Lujan Center: A Retrospective P. Lewis abstract
presentation
paper
9:35 Overview of Software Developments in J-PARC / MLF T. Otomo abstract
presentation
10:00 ISIS: towards a 21st century facility computing environment (slowly) R.L. McGreevy abstract
presentation
10:25-10:40 Coffee
10:40 SNS and HFIR facility overviews Stephen Miller abstract
presentation
11:05 DANSE Brent Fultz abstract
presentation
11:30-13:00 Session 1: Data Management Chair Robert McGreevy
11:30 Taming the facility data explosion - the ICAT system explained Damian W Flannery abstract
presentation
12:00 The State of NeXus P.F. Peterson & F.A. Akeroyd abstract
presentation
12:30 Recent CIF developments:DDLm and dREL James Hester abstract
presentation
12:45 The canSAS standard for storing reduced one-dimensional small-angle scattering data in XML files Pete R. Jemian abstract
presentation
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-18:30 Session 2: Collaboration Chair Brent Fultz
14:00 Software collaboration - why can't we do better? Robert McGreevy abstract
presentation
14:20 Technical and Management Issues in Collaborative Software Construction B.Fultz abstract
presentation
14:50 NeSSI: Collaborative Software and Other Mythical Creatures P.F. Peterson abstract
presentation
15:10 Software Engineering Techniques for Development of Real Time Collaborative eResearch Environments Michael D'Silva abstract
presentation
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00 Virtual Collaboration Spaces: effective access to the e-Infrastructure R. Pugliese abstract
16:20 Software for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and the Australian SKA Pathfinder Tim Cornwell abstract
16:50-18:00 Closeout

Tuesday 4th November

8:30-12:30 Session 3: Data acquisition Chair Bill Pulford
8:30 Diamond Light Source Data Acquisition System flexes its muscles Paul Gibbons abstract
presentation
8:55 Keeping It Simple: LDAQ, the New Data Acquisition Software Application Developed for the Lujan Center Paul Lewis abstract
presentation
9:20 Event Mode Data Acquistion System Richard Riedel abstract
presentation
9:45 Tree Path based Instrument Control Mark Koennecke abstract
presentation
paper
10:15-10:30 Coffee
10:30 The ALBA control system package Tiago Coutinho abstract
presentation
paper
10:55 Open Inspire - A framework for instrument control, data acquisition and analysis Stefan Flemming abstract
paper
11:20 Generic Scientific Software? Alun Ashton abstract
11:40 Controling instrument in the RESTful way Tony Lam abstract
presentation
12:00-12:30 Data acquisition closeout
12:30-13:00 Poster Session 1
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-18:30 Session 4: Grid and Portals Chair Steve Miller
14:00 Introduction Steve Miller
14:10 Coupling Experimental User Facilities with large scale HPC cyberinfrastructure: Experience, lessons, and prospects John Cobb presentation
14:40 The World Wide Web and The Virtual Scientific Instrument Peter Turner abstract
presentation
15:00-15:20 Coffee & Melbourne Cup
15:20 Virtual Beamline eResearch Environment at the Australian Synchrotron Chris Myers abstract
15:40 A JSDL Applications Repository and Data Staging Portal, Some New Parameter Sweep Developments and Data Transfer / File Staging Requirements David Meredith abstract
presentation
16:00 A Multi-tiered Portal Architecture Overview: Emphasizing the Orbiter Thick-client Tier Mark L. Green abstract
16:20 Overview of the Diamond e-Infrastructure Alun Ashton abstract
16:40 A survival toolkit for the technology outback Michael Aivazis
presentation
17:00 Distributed computing at the Facility level: applications and attitudes Tom Griffin abstract
presentation
17:20 TeraGrid Gateway User Concept. Supporting Users V. E. Lynch abstract
presentation
17:40 Real-time correlation of widely-distributed radio telescopes (eVLBI) at >1 Gbps datarates: a paradigm shift to "unlimited" networks? Tasso Tzioumis abstract
presentation
18:00-18:30 Discussion
18:30-19:30 Poster Session 2
19:30 Conference Dinner. Accompanying person $80 per person

Wednesday 5th November

8:55-10:15 Session 5. Data acquisition and analysis integration Chair Mark Koennecke
8:55 Mantid: Manipulation and Analysis Toolkit for ISIS Data Nick Draper abstract
presentation
paper
9:20 Remote Data Fitting at X-ray Server Sergey Stepanov abstract
presentation
9:45 Optimum resolution, 'Live' Tomographic Reconstruction Alun Ashton abstract
presentation
10:15-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:40 Session 6: Robotics and Protein Crystallography Chair Mark Koennecke
10:30 Automatic Calibration of Multi-Axis Goniometers for Macromolecular Crystallography Sandor Brockhauser abstract
presentation
10:55 Robotics methods for instrument simulation and control Jon James abstract
presentation
paper
11:20 Status of BluIce-EPICS beamline control system for macromolecular crystallography Sergey Stepanov abstract
presentation
11:40 Integration of sample automounters at GMCA CAT protein crystallography beamlines Oleg A. Makarov abstract
presentation
12:00 Fast 2D Detector Control at the ESRF Beamlines Alejandro Homs-Puron abstract
presentation
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-18:00 ANSTO Tour

Posters

Data Management
Validating NeXus files using XML schema P1 Freddie Akeroyd (STFC ISIS Facility), on behalf of the NeXus International Advisory Committee (NIAC) abstract
Sample Activation Calculation and Tracking System P2 Shelly Ren, Allen Clayton, James Kohl, Ian Evans, Wei Lu and Steve Miller abstract
Live Cataloging Experiment Data at SNS P3 P.F. Peterson, J. Schwidder, S. Ren, J. Mansour, M.A. Reuter abstract
Monitoring and Diagnosing SNS Experiment Data Flow P4 Shelly Ren, Jens Schwidder, and Peter Peterson abstract
Scalable Web Services for Experiment Repository Virtual File System Access P5 Mark L. Green, Stephen D. Miller, Shelly X. Ren, Peter F. Peterson abstract
Collaboration
Acceptance Diagram Shading - Fast Modelling of Guide Systems P6 P. M. Bentley and K. H. Andersen abstract
The PyAALib Framework and The Profiler Interface: How to Develop and Debug a Massively Parallel Application based on Dynamic Plug-ins? P7 Romeu A. Pieritz and Claudio Ferrero abstract
paper
Community built computational software and towards curation of its parts. P8 S. Quenette, D. Abramson abstract
Software Framework for Neutron Instruments in J-PARC / MLF P9 Takeshi Nakatani, Toshiya Otomo, Jiro Suzuki, Yoshiji Yasu, Yasuhiro Inamura, Masatoshi Arai abstract
A Test Driving Approach for Beamline Software Development P10 Xiaoxu Ren, Paul Gibbons and Bill Pulford abstract
paper
Qub Library P11 Petitdemange and BLISS group abstract
paper
SNS-NSTG Collaborative Software Development P12 V. E. Lynch, M. L. Chen, J. W. Cobb, E. Farhi, J. A. Kohl, S. D. Miller, P. F. Peterson, M. A. Reuter, J. A. Travierso S. S. Vazhkudai abstract
Enlightened Cybersecurity to Enable Collaborative Research Using Virtual Organizations P13 Mark L. Green, Stephen D. Miller, John W. Cobb, Jim R. Trater abstract
Data Acquisition and Analysis
Data Acquisition System Integration with Python P14 Richard Riedel, Xiaodong Tao and Piotr Zolnierczuk abstract
The EDNA initiative P15 Alun Ashton Marie-Francoise Incardona, Karl Levik, Olof Svensson. abstract
Analysis and modeling of small-angle scattering data needs and how these are addressed by Irena software package P16 Jan Ilavsky and Pete R. Jemian abstract
Status of the Alba control system P17 David Fern'andez Carreiras et Al. abstract
paper
Current Status of Software on Chopper Spectrometers for MLF, J-PARC P18 Y. Inamura, K. Nakajima, M. Kajimoto, T. Nakatani and M. Arai abstract
VME bus interface for Linux 2.6 kernels P19 Alejandro Homs-Puron abstract
paper
Object-Oriented Data Analysis Framework for Neutron Scattering Experiments P20 Jiro Suzuki abstract
Portals and Grid
Grid Computing and Its Prospects for Malaysian Nuclear Research Community – QuantumGRID RIG P21 Abdul Aziz Mohamed, Abdul Rahman Ahmad Dahlan, Faridah Md Idris, Azraf Azman, Megat Harun Al Rashid Megat Ahmad, Julia Abdul Karim, Mohd Rizal Mamat, Rafhayudi Jamro, Anwar Abdul Rahman abstract
Portal Based Data Reduction P22 Peter Peterson, Jean-Christophe Bilheux, Michael A. Reuter, Jim R. Trater abstract
NSSD Neutron Science Portal architecture P23 S.D. Miller*, J.A. Kohl, S.S*. Vazhkudai*, M.L. Green abstract
NSSD Computing infrastructure from instrument to portal S.D. Miller, J.R. Trater, J.W. Cobb abstract
Experience with Remote Job Execution P24 V. E. Lynch, J. W. Cobb, M. L. Green, J. A. Kohl, S. D. Miller, S. Ren, B. Smith, S. S. Vazhkudai abstract
paper