Figures & Facts

Figures & Facts
Febrary 2008
NSRRC Evaluates EPICS as the Possible Choice for its
Future Accelerator
An EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control
System) training course is held to give control specialists
an overview of its implementations in the control system
of the accelerator from February 18 to 27. NSRRC staff of
the Instrumentation & Control Group (IC group), RF Group,
and Beamline Group have geared up on putting plans and
tasks in place for Taiwan Photon Source (TPS), the next
accelerator that is presently scheduled to have groundbreaking
construction at around the end of 2009.
One of the key agenda is to fully evaluate available
software that will be adopted as the backbone of the
control systems for the accelerator. Programs include
lectures, which are offered by a service provider, and
intensive hand-on experiments. Staff has run through
examples to build prototypes and to simulate the
control system with parameters designed for the future
accelerator.
speed up the processing of experimental data of NSRRC
users, was offered on March 6. Getting new users to learn
old tricks is one of the tasks the NSRRC beamline managers
deal with every single day. Facing the increasing number
of users each year that leads to shorter time slot granted to
each research team, solutions were compiled and carried
out in recent months. As a result, users see more hand-on
training offered by NSRRC staff beginning 2008.
30 students in the class were required to study the
class material and to download the needed programs
beforehand. The course began with the installation of
GSAS and EXPGUI. Next, each person used their own XRD
experimental data to feed the systems for exercise. To run
the programs, each trainee is also required to gather cell
parameters, space group, and atomic coordinates as inputs.
If unavailable, the built-in examples were then used
instead.
The training course produced a set of feedback and
hit-and-miss score cards for fitting into the review process
of a (or more) programmable software solutions of the
control systems.
GSAS Training Course
April 2008
2008 Synchrotron Radiation Protein
Crystallography Workshop
EPICS Training Course
March 2008
A One-day GSAS Training Offers NSRRC Users a
Quick-start of Mastering the Analytical Tool
Generalized Structure and Analysis Software (GSAS)
EXPGUI, a graphical user interface for GSAS, which can
Automation on Protein Crystallography Beamlines
at NSRRC
A two-day workshop on Automation on Protein
Crystallography Beamlines at NSRRC was held at NSRRC
on April 9 - 10. There were 23 attendees in total as registration
was limited to one representative per user
group.
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