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Jean Daillant (ESRF)9/24/24, 1:30 PM
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Andrew Goetz (ESRF)9/24/24, 1:40 PM
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Andrew Goetz (ESRF), Stephen P. Collins (Diamond Light Source)9/24/24, 1:45 PM
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Paul Quinn (Ada Lovelace Centre)9/24/24, 2:00 PM
The Ada Lovelace Centre (ALC) was setup to maximise the utilization and impact of data from the STFC large facilities, Diamond Light Source, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source and the Central Laser Facility.
Our activities cover data management, cloud-based services, materials modelling, computational biology, imaging, and the application of maths and AI to these areas and to science and...
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Ms Xiaoxue Bi (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)9/24/24, 2:45 PM
Due to the diverse data acquisition modes and complex online analysis methods conducted at various beamlines of synchrotron radiation light sources, beamline users are often required to get acquainted with the interface, functionality and workflow of the data acquisition software before the experiment starts. Such process highly relies on the on-site guidance from the beamline staff themselves...
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Dylan McReynolds (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Dr Daniel Allan (BNL), Wiebke Koepp (Advanced Light Source (ALS), Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL))9/24/24, 3:00 PM
From the Bluesky project, Tiled [1] is a data service that removes several barriers by providing secure, authenticated remote access to data. Tiled abstracts variations in file formats and other data storage details across different beamline instruments, making data analysis and visualization code portable. It enables fast, targeted access to specific data regions and offers search and...
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Linus Pithan (DESY)9/24/24, 3:15 PM
Modern synchrotron beamlines and neutron instruments have undergone significant changes due to technological advances and newly deployed infrastructure. Thus, experiments are becoming more data-intense and data-driven and increasingly relying on online data analysis for efficient use of experimental resources. In this regard, machine-learning (ML) based approaches of specific importance for...
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Mr Chun Li (Institute of High Energy Physics)9/24/24, 4:00 PM
Synchrotron light source facilities are evolving into the fourth generation with extreme spatial, temporal and energy resolving capabilities, which pushes the transition of experiment modes into high resolution, multiscale, ultra-fast, and in-situ characterization with dynamic loading or under operando conditions. Such transition raises challenges to balance acquisition efficiency and data...
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Eric Codrea (Argonne National Laboratories)9/24/24, 4:15 PM
An entire scientific workflow from acquisition through analysis has been automated, optimizing the success rate of measurements at the APS. Optimizations comprise leveraging a custom Python software stack integrating Bluesky (with connections to EPICS), the use of a large language model Scientific Companion, and the APS Data Management tools.
The integration simplifies the learning needed...
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Dr Dana Robinson (The HDF Group)9/24/24, 4:30 PM
In this presentation, we review several approaches to crashproofing the HDF5 library. We describe an implementation based on a Write-Ahead Log (WAL) for metadata within the HDF5 library. In the event of a crash during the lifetime of an application using HDF5, this WAL can be used by the library or an external tool to restore the metadata within an HDF5 file to a self-consistent state,...
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Loic Huder (ESRF)9/24/24, 4:45 PM
HDF5 (with NeXus) is becoming the standard in many X-ray facilities. HDF5 viewers are needed to allow users to browse and inspect the hierarchical structure of HDF5 files, as well as visualize the datasets inside as basic plots (1D, 2D). Having such a viewer on the web is especially interesting since it allows users to browse files remotely without having to...
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Nicholas Schwarz (Argonne National Laboratory)9/24/24, 5:00 PM
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) is in the midst of an upgrade project that includes the replacement of the entire storage ring with a ring based on a multi-bend achromat lattice design. This new storage ring will increase the APS’s brightness by factors of 500, depending on x-ray energy, and make the APS the brightest hard x-ray synchrotron source in the...
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Chris Roderick (CERN)9/24/24, 5:15 PM
With around 800 devices acting on more than 8km of beam lines, the CERN fixed target experimental areas have a dedicated beam line control system used by a few CERN experts and individuals from more than 140 groups of visiting users to perform experiments. In late 2021, an initiative was triggered to try to unify the accelerator and beam line controls, with the aim of containing maintenance...
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Klaus Wakonig (Paul Scherrer Institute)9/24/24, 5:30 PM
The Swiss Light Source (SLS) is undergoing a significant hardware upgrade with the SLS 2.0 program, presenting an opportunity to address software challenges, particularly in beamline and experiment control systems. With official endorsement for deployment at the SLS, the new Beamline and Experiment Control system (BEC) provides a unified solution for beamlines, overcoming past challenges of...
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Michael Schuh (European XFEL)9/24/24, 5:45 PM
The VISA platform has been proposed as a common and local portal for data analysis services for the photon and neutron community. It seeks to abstract away site and experiment specific configuration with ready-to-use virtual data analysis environments and it keeps track of interactive sessions.
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Tobias WEBER (ILL)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
We present a new version of the triple-axis software suite Takin whose most recent addition includes a magnon calculator based on [the same formalism as SpinW][1]. The new module is written in fast C++20 and features a graphical user interface for quickly manipulating magnetic structures and couplings, but can also be used as a library and scripted using Python. The module is furthermore...
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Clement Atlan (ESRF)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Bragg Coherent Diffraction X-ray Imaging (BCDI) is a non-invasive X-ray characterisation technique for probing in three-dimensions (3D) structures of single nano-objects. While traditional BCDI analysis yields 3D maps of electron density, displacement, and heterogeneous strain, this work introduces a methodology and a user-friendly open-source tool for resolving 3D d-spacing maps within the...
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Yu Hu (IHEP, CAS)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Recent advances in X-ray beamline technologies, including the advent of very high brilliance beamlines at next generation synchrotron sources and advanced detector instrumentation, have led to an exponential increase in the speed of data collection. As a consequence, there is an increasing need for a data analysis platform that can refine and optimize data collection strategies in real time...
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Michele Belletti (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
MicroTomo2 is an X-ray imaging station installed at the STAR accelerator facility of the University of Calabria. The STAR accelerator, currently under construction, will produce photons with energies up to 350 keV generated by the laser light-electron collisions using the Thomson back-scattering phenomenon. The MicroTomo2 experimental station will provide full-field X-ray radiography and...
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Jean Baptiste FLorial (EMBL)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The ESRF extremely brilliant source (EBS), Europe's first high energy 4th generation synchrotron, started user operation in August 2020. To benefit from the exceptional high quality X-rays produced by the ESRF-EBS all the experimental control and data analysis pipelines have been significantly upgraded on all the EMBL-ESRF Joint Structural Biology Group (JSBG) beamlines at the ESRF. On the...
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Dr Pete Peterson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Neutron tomography is a crucial tool for material examination, but ring artifacts can significantly decrease data quality and complicate tasks like segmentation and morphological analysis. The Block-Matching and 3D filtering (BM3D) algorithm, known for mitigating vertical streaks in sinograms and addressing the root cause of ring artifacts, is unfortunately slow and CPU-intensive. We introduce...
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Xinyu Pan (The Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences), Prof. Yi Zhang (IHEP), Zhongzheng Zhou (IHEP)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
With pre-trained large models and their associated fine-tuning paradigms being constantly applied in deep learning, the performance of large models achieves a dramatic boost, mostly owing to the improvements on both data quantity and quality. Next-generation synchrotron light sources offer ultra-bright and highly coherent X-rays, which are becoming one of the largest data sources for...
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Pengcheng Li (Institute of High Energy Physics)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
In order to provide higher quality X-ray beams, synchrotron radiation light sources are becoming increasingly complex, including dozens of highly delicate optical devices and sensitive experimental setups. This creates a common problem for all users, namely the need to quickly and accurately adjust the attitude and optimize the beamline to achieve the optimal photon beam and experimental...
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LEI WANG (Institute of High Energy Physics)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Google team showed a new Adam-tuned optimization solver for deep neural network training called LION (EvoLved Sign Momentum) by thousands of hours of training at TPU cluster, 2023. It is more memory-efficient than Adam as it only keeps track of the momentum and cuts the epsilon and a group of momentum parameters off. We applied “LION” solver to the physics-informed neural network-PtychoPINN...
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Ms Sonal Patel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Operando Catalysis experiments involve many different devices and processes running simultaneously and on different timescales. Data from sample environment which is changing over time has to be correlated with data from measurement techniques acquired using X-Ray beamlines. Users performing these experiments commonly face a daunting task of collating all their data together from different...
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Mr Arafat Noureddine (synchrotron SOLEIL), Yves-Marie ABIVEN (synchrotron SOLEIL)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
SOLEIL II project is set to commence in 2025. This project aims to develop an ambitious Diffraction Limited Storage Ring (DLSR) that will enhance brilliance, coherence, and flux. Additionally, the upgrade will include the improvement in the experimental techniques on the beamlines. Automation has been prioritized to adress evolving requirements and simplify user experiences at the beamlines...
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Ivars Karpics (European XFEL)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Stable and continuous operation of large-scale distributed control systems are based on well- established configuration management and data logging. During service interruptions, like power cuts, hardware failures, network outages, planned maintenance and software deployment, parts of control system components may lose crucial configuration and restoring them to working condition may take...
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Jan Wyzula (Paul Scherrer Institute)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
BEC Widgets is an innovative Qt-based GUI framework specially designed to provide graphical user interfaces for the Beamline Experiment Control (BEC), tailored for users at the Swiss Light Source at Paul Scherrer Institute. BEC Widgets ensures seamless integration and a plug-and-play experience that significantly improves workflow efficiency and interactivity for beamline scientists.
With...
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Christian Appel (Paul Scherrer Institut)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institut is undergoing an upgrade to a 4th generation synchrotron, presenting an opportunity to enhance its current software stack. To consolidate efforts, a software package for Beamline and Experiment Control (BEC) has been developed, primarily written in Python and leveraging established software tools. For the underlying hardware abstraction...
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Stuart Fisher9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Blissterm is a web shell for the BLISS [1] beamline control framework. In addition to providing the BLISS shell via a web interface, blissterm also adds the possibility of creating simple User Interfaces (UIs) with minimal configuration. The shell can be adorned with for example motors, multi-position, and shutter objects, and there is also the possibility of creating separate monitoring...
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Yannick Le Goc9/24/24, 6:00 PM
CAMEO[1] is a general-purpose middleware providing services to manage distributed heterogeneous applications. It has been developed in the Instrument Control Service at the ILL to solve many common issues e.g. how to have a C++ control server, many Java GUI clients displaying plots calculated by a Python library, or how to integrate a proprietary software running on a dedicated Windows...
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Pengcheng Li9/24/24, 6:00 PM
EPICS IOCs can be quite inefficient to develop and inflexible to use, because of architectural limitations inherent in EPICS itself. Based on the caproto library, we developed the queue_iocs framework, which we expect to be capable of replacing most EPICS IOCs currently used with more maintainable and flexible Python IOCs. Simple examples include workalikes of StreamDevice and asyn; seq-like...
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Thomas Gruber9/24/24, 6:00 PM
An essential challenge by creating FAIR datasets is the often underestimated I, which stands for interoperability. Especially for a dataset that is meant to be exported from its ecosystem, it is important to store the metadata and data in the appropriate exchangeable format based on standards.
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雪琪 宋 (IHEP)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) is a pivotal technique for material characterization. In the field of XAS, data assessment typically involves comparing the data with reference spectra from previous measurements, placing high demands on the quality of the spectra and measurement data. In order to advance data-driven scientific research, it is urgent to establish a reusable infrastructure...
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Peter Wegmann (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The easy integration of sample environment hardware into Bluesky represents a crucial step for achieving the goals for automation of in-situ and operando experiments at photon sources required by the ROCK-IT project. The use of Ophyd as a common hardware abstraction layer facilitates the integration of sample environment hardware into an existing Bluesky environment. Based on the metadata and...
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Istvan Mohacsi (Paul Scherrer Institute (CH))9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Computed tomographic microscopy is one of the milestone techniques of X-ray science. The I- and S-TOMCAT beamlines of the Swiss Light Source (SLS) specialize in in-vivo, in-situ and operando high-speed tomography with over 10 kHz sustained frame rates. The improved flux and brilliance of the new TOMCAT beamlines present new frontiers for dynamic applications. Hence, they will serve as a...
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Stuart Fisher9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Daiquiri [1] is a web based User Interface (UI) framework for control system monitoring and data acquisition. It provides simple, intuitive, and responsive interfaces to control and monitor hardware, launch acquisition sequences, and manage associated metadata. Daiquiri concerns itself only with the UI layer, it does not provide a scan engine or controls system but can be easily integrated...
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Ivan Usov (PSI)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The Beamline and Experiment Control (BEC) is a new solution for beamline operations that targets the Swiss Light Source upgrade (SLS2.0) at Paul Scherrer Institute.
We present a deployment strategy for BEC components and dependencies, leveraging on-premise GitLab pipelines, runners, and Ansible roles/playbooks. GitLab pipelines orchestrate automated workflows, integrating version control...
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S. Denisov9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Our research demonstrates the feasibility of utilizing compact X-ray setup coupled with advanced computational techniques for accurate and efficient breast cancer diagnostics. We present study of Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) in human tissues through Geant4 Monte Carlo simulations. Scattering events from 1 mm thick tissue is recorded with sensitive detector placed at 20 mm (WAXS) and...
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Olga Merkulova (DESY)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Breaking news, Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts,… Living in the era of information intoxication means the average person’s attention span was ~8 seconds in 2022. No wonder it’s hard to conquer readers’ attention with documentation. That’s why it’s important to make documentation exciting and interesting to read still keeping it informative.
Documentation is communication. And it...
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Roberto Borghes (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Contemporary web applications are exceptionally efficient and often use a complex structure of frameworks and libraries for front-end development. This escalation in technical complexity requires a team with diverse, specialized skills, inevitably increasing the cost of web development. DonkiWeb is a simple, control system oriented, web SCADA that follows the KISS ( Keep It Simple, Stupid)...
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Mr Eric Pellegrini (Institut Laue-Langevin), Remi Perenon (Institut Laue-Langevin)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
These last years, ILL made a committed effort to implement data reduction for a large share of its instruments into the Mantid framework.
By doing so, ILL provides its users with access to the common Graphical User Interface (GUI) of Mantid (Mantid Workbench), bringing the effort on data reduction to a wide audience.Taking advantage of their proximity with users, Mantid ILL developers...
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Oleksandr Koshchii (Forschungszentrum Juelich)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
POWTEX is a high-intensity TOF diffractometer at the FRM-II research reactor in Garching bei München, Germany. The instrument will serve the needs of the solid-state chemistry, geoscience, and materials science communities through neutron scattering measurements on POWder and TEXture samples.
The important part of the data processing workflow at POWTEX is data reduction, i.e. correction...
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Takahiro Matsumoto (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
At large synchrotron radiation facility SPring-8, accommodating diverse experimental user demands requires various operation modes and advanced task management for measurement proxies. Despite these complexities, the need for efficient operation through automation has become increasingly essential. This presentation discusses initiatives to enhance operational efficiency at SPring-8, which...
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Dr Zeynep Isil Isik Dursun (DESY)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) play a crucial role in defining the user-friendliness of software applications, enhancing efficiency by structuring and organizing the information presented. The ROCK-IT project aims to develop all necessary tools for the automation and remote access of synchrotron-based in-situ and operando experiments, using operando catalysis experiments as a pilot case....
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Przemyslaw Karczmarczyk (ALBA Synchrotron)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
FDA (Fast Data Analyser) is an application developed at ALBA Synchrotron to analyse the data produced with X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS), as well as with X-Ray Diffraction (XRD). It provides a quick and convenient way of loading, processing, and analysing the data with different methods, such as XANES (X-ray absorption near edge structure) normalization, EXAFS (Extended X-ray absorption...
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Gabriel Jover-Manas (ALBA synchrotron)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
On-the-fly 3D data reconstruction is a challenging need in synchrotron micro-tomography facilities. This presentation will have two parts. In the first part we will show the data workflow and infrastructure implemented at the FaXToR beamline of the ALBA Spanish synchrotron to follow dynamics inside the samples. In the second, we will present a new approach to implement tomography processing...
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Valentina Chenda (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The Elettra Synchrotron, located in Italy near Trieste, has been operating for users since 1994 being the first third generation light source for soft X-rays in Europe. To stay competitive for world-class photon science, a massive upgrade of the storage ring has been planned in 2025. The goal is to build an ultra low emittance light source with ultra-high brilliance in the same building as the...
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Malte Storm (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon operates multiple X-ray diffraction (XRD) experiments for external users and while the experiments are very similar, their analysis is not. Pydidas [1] is a software package developed for the batch analysis of X-ray diffraction data. It is published as open source and intended to be widely reusable. Integration is based on the ESRF’s pyFAI package.
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Alejandro Homs Puron (ESRF)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The ESRF EBS upgrade has meant a tremendous increase in X-ray photon flux in the experimental beamlines (BLs), requiring faster and more advanced DAQ techniques. Faster and larger 2D detectors are being developed and need to be integrated into the BL control system. The BLISS control software, designed to push the BL instrumentation to its limits, fulfills the opportunities offered by this...
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Kentaro Moriyama (Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society (CROSS) Neutron Science and Technology Center)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Providing a remote experimental environment for facility users and utilizing advanced computational resources of cloud environments for instrument control are challenging issues for scientific user facilities such as J-PARC MLF. Therefore, we have developed a hybrid cloud-based instrument control system by modifying IROHA2, which is the standard instrument control software framework for...
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Rolf Krahl (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The ICAT server is a metadata catalogue to support large facility experimental data. python-icat is a Python client library for ICAT. The package provides a collection of modules for writing programs that access an ICAT service. The most important features include the dynamic generation of Python classes to represent the entity object types from the ICAT schema that is automatically adapted...
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Vincent Hardion (MAX IV Laboratory)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The Experiment Control System Reliability project aimed at enhancing the reliability of the beamlines operation at MAX IV. The project focused on the scanning software and the support process, identifying improvements to reduce downtime and increase system reliability. It was structured in innovative organisation to learn from one stable beamline and, in parallel, to improve the reliability...
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Robert Schaffer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The FMX (Frontier Microfocusing Macromolecular Crystallography) beamline at the NSLS-II light source has been developing a new experimental station for fixed target time-resolved serial crystallography on biological systems. We present here the controls-system for a chip scanner to enable the rapid collection of large numbers of room temperature crystallographic measurements on biological...
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Gabriele Giovanetti (European XFEL)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The Karabo control system is used facility-wide at European XFEL (EuXFEL) to steer experiments and collect scientific data. As a user-centered facility, EuXFEL deals with ever-changing requirements and faces often the need to integrate new instrumentation, or even to cope with user-provided hardware on relatively short notice.
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Marius Retegan9/24/24, 6:00 PM
X-ray absorption spectroscopy provides a wealth of information regarding the local structure and electronic properties of materials. However, data analysis is significantly more time-consuming than acquisition and initial data reduction. Decoding the information relies on comparing it with similar compounds for which the spectrum–property mapping is already established, a task that is very...
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Lilith Cole9/24/24, 6:00 PM
IBEX is the EPICS based experiment control program used on beamlines at the ISIS Neutron and Muon source. A key feature of IBEX is experiment configurations and how these can be split into components that can be re-used across many other configurations. In this context a configuration represents the collection of devices and their settings as well as other options such as data logging that are...
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Jack Allen (ISIS Neutron and Muon Source)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Mantid Imaging is a user friendly, interactive, open source and free to download GUI application for Linux and Windows. Mantid Imaging is used by the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Instrument: IMAT, scientists and visiting users for data reduction, reconstruction, and live viewing of 2D and 3D data. The software application is designed to be intuitive such that users of varying technical ability...
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David Pape (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (HZDR))9/24/24, 6:00 PM
METABOLATOR is a web application for automated analysis of microcalorimetric metabolic data using Monod's equation. The software was developed in collaboration between the Institute of Resource Ecology and the Department of Information Services and Computing at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (HZDR), and is now offered as a web service for the community. In addition to publishing the...
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Tobias WEBER (ILL)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
As part of our efforts in the field of autonomous instrument control, we present a motion planning algorithm for triple-axis spectrometers and its open-source implementation. Due to angular constraints and walls in the instrument space, not every (Q, E) coordinate point is accessible to the spectrometer. A careful mapping of the available positions is usually required before each experiment to...
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Dr David Hickin (European XFEL GmbH)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Karabo is a device-based distributed control system used to implement the control and data acquisition systems of the 3 tunnels and 7 instruments of European XFEL.
Motion systems, both PLC and non-PLC-based, are controlled through single and multi-axis Karabo devices with standardised interfaces and behaviour.
Combined motion of multiple motors is provided through multi-axis devices,...
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Vanessa Silva (MAX IV Laboratory), Mirjam Lindberg (MAX IV Laboratory)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The Balder beamline is placed at the 3 GeV storage ring at MAX IV Laboraty (a 4th generation synchrotron) and is dedicated to X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy in the energy range of 2.4–40 keV [1]. The beamline can deliver a very high photon flux of 1013 ph/s and is suitable for experiments under in situ / operando conditions. This kind of experiment requires support for fast...
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Marcus Oskarsson (ESRF)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
MXCuBE goes serial
M.Oskarsson, A.Beteva, D. de Sanctis, S.Basu, J. Orlans, S.Rose, S. Debionne, A. Homs, J. Kieffer, J.Meyer
The ESRF Extremely Brilliant Source upgrade programme included the construction of the new ID29 beamline, the first in the world beamline fully dedicated to room-temperature experiments and time-resolved macromolecular serial crystallography....
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Dr Hector Perez Ponce (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The research data management group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is applying FAIR data management. Data starts to be moved from specific file formats into NeXus/HDF5 files. The standardization program involves the conversion of already generated data, and the automation for the creation of NeXus files from new experiments (example: Bluesky). Our tool, NexusCreator, allows to separate the...
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Joseph Ware9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Diamond has built up a portfolio of internally produced software with analogues in other facilities' products and off-the-shelf solutions in both the commercial and free-open-source spheres. Off-the-shelf software often fulfil most use cases for a fraction of the investment, allowing development resources to be allocated to areas which are unique to the requirements of a user-facing facility,...
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Aljoša Hafner (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Basovizza, Trieste, Italy)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The information technology (IT) requirements of complex data analysis have been growing steadily in the last decades. Among the techniques, readily performed at synchrotrons, computational tomography (CT) is one of the most IT resource demanding. This holds both for the computing (CPU and GPU) and storage (I/O) requirements. Taking into account the faster and larger detectors (exceeding 5...
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Raymond Osborn (Argonne National Laboratory)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Recent advances in synchrotron x-ray instrumentation have enabled the rapid acquisition of x-ray diffraction data from single crystals, allowing large contiguous volumes of scattering in reciprocal space to be collected in a matter of minutes, with data rates of several terabytes per day. NXRefine implements a complete workflow for both data acquisition and reduction of single crystal x-ray...
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Yi Zhang9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The advancements on instrumentations of advanced light sources and beamline technologies are making revolutionary changes to the modes of scientific experiments. The Mamba project was launched from 2020, aim to develop a systematic modern software system on top of Bluesky (NSLS II) to address the control and data acquisition task for HEPS experiments. Over the past years, Mamba has formed its...
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Jan Garrevoet (DESY)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Abstract. Many X-ray based techniques allow for simultaneous acquisition, e.g. XRF, XRD, SAXS, WAXS, XBIC, XBIV, and
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many more. Although previously hardly every utilised, it is nowadays becoming the standard. Now that many technical challenges
are solved the next challenge lays in the analysis of the acquired data.
INTRODUCTION
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Dylan McReynolds (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Linus Pithan (DESY)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The SciCat[1] metadata catalog is in use at several scientific user facilities. SciCat stores metadata about datasets (both raw and derived), proposals, and instruments. When introduced into SciCat, each dataset is given a unique identifier. Datasets can be searched for and browsed in a web portal. Authorization rules can be applied to allow fine-grained access to datasets for staff and users....
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Spencer Bliven (Paul Scherrer Institute)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The Open Electron Microscopy Data Network (OpenEM) is a Swiss-wide collaboration to improve data management at electron microscopy (EM) facilities and make the dissemination of EM data open and FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable). The collaboration is based around a central SciCat instance hosted at the Paul Scherrer Institute (discovery.psi.ch), which stores metadata from...
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Mr Ming Tang (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
PiXiu is a program bridging the gap between first-principles density functional theory (DFT) and inelastic neutron scattering (INS) dynamical structure factor calculations. In addition to performing powder-averaging for powder samples, PiXiu is capable of calculating the dynamical structure factor in four dimensions for single crystals. Under the hood, PiXiu combines the Quantum Espresso and...
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Julius Karliczek (ILL)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
SasView is undergoing a plotting GUI refactoring project. Emphasis lies on a new version of plotting functionality, which is supposed to improve the user experience when using SasView and creating fits and plots with the program. A goal is, to move the triggers of already existing functions to a place, where users can see them more easily. Also, the function of displaying data in a dedicated...
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Oliver Silvester (Diamond Light Source)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
In Macromolecular Cystallography (MX) experiments at Diamond Light Source (DLS), crystals are located by scanning samples around a rectangular grid, under synchrotron light, and looking for diffraction. The speeds of these scans have been limited by the position capture unit which co-ordinates trigger signals - the Zebra. Using a Zebra, these scans have historically had a step-like motion,...
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Russ Berg (Canadian Light Source)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Typically in the past, data collection software developed by individuals with non-software-focused roles often placed low priority on the User Interface (UI), considering it time-consuming and prone to software bugs. However, for software developers primarily tasked with delivering reliable software, the aim is to create a robust platform enabling users of all levels to efficiently collect...
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Justin Wozniak (Argonne National Laboratory)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Cross-institutional data sharing is still a challenging problem for the large datasets collected at the Advanced Photon Source (APS). Sector 6 at the APS routinely collects single-crystal x-ray diffraction data at a rate of several terabyes per day, which is streamed for automated data reduction in local file stores. Such large data volumes make it challenging to collaborate on data analysis...
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William Smith (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
ROCK-IT is a collaboration which aims to demonstrate the ability to perform complex operando catalysis experiments in a highly automated way, enabling remote operation. The project finds common solutions between different facilities which have various control systems and infrastructure. Ophyd provides a common abstraction layer to Tango, EPICS and SECoP. In the demonstrators of this project,...
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Devin Burke (DESY), Heike Görzig (HZB)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Insights into "catalysts at work" are of high interest to academic and industrial users, prompting the ROCK-IT project partners DESY, HZB, HZDR, and KIT to enhance capabilities for in situ and operando experiments. ROCK-IT aims to meet the need for a holistic workflow through common remote access protocols, FAIR-data management standards, automation, robotics, experiment and beamline control...
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Terence Tan (University of Oxford & Diamond Light Source)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
A collaboration between Diamond Light Source and the University of Oxford funds a PhD project aimed at understanding the technical, social and policy implications of adopting the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) Principles, and evaluating the effects of its implementation on synchrotron data. The work focuses on the early stage of the science life cycle, when the scientists...
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Andrei Savici (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Historically, data workflows for single crystal inelastic neutron experiments were using a pre-histogramming step, storing data for each detector as a histogram in energy transfer. Therefore, each bin of these histograms is then a measurement of the dynamic structure factor (or double differential cross section). A useful representation of this data includes transformation into momentum...
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Michael Walsh (ORNL)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The SNAP diffractometer at SNS is highly re-configurable, featuring movable detectors, choppers, and optional neutron optics, introducing challenges in automated data reduction. The complexities of this data orchestration necessitated the development of the ongoing SNAPRed software. SNAPRed addresses this by defining unique Instrument States based on the instrumental configuration. A...
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Dr Jerome Kieffer (ESRF)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
This contribution summarizes the development of pyFAI over the past year:
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* Detectors flipping: orientation can now be specified in PONI
* Geometry is more open for exchanging experimental setup with other software
* Support for grazing incidence geometry
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Zhibang Shen (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) is currently under construction. Prior to the installation of all equipment, tasks such as beam tuning can only be carried out based on the experience of the beamline staff and some mathematical estimations, in an imaginary space. While effective, this approach is not convenient. Here, taking the Low-dimension Structure Probe beamline of HEPS as a prototype, we...
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Hao-Kai Sun (Computing Center, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The High Energy Photon Source (HEPS), currently under construction, represents an advanced experimental platform facilitating breakthroughs in fundamental scientific research. Boasting over fourteen experimental beamlines, HEPS offers a rich array of research domains and employs complex analytical methodologies. Consequently, it faces formidable data processing challenges, including managing...
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Haofan Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) encompasses a variety of experimental types, including diffraction, scattering, imaging, and spectroscopy. The data generated from these experiments are highly dimensional, uncertain, and computationally complex. Considering the users' needs for interoperable data analysis and high-performance I/O processing, it is necessary to organize and manage the data...
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Regina Hinzmann9/24/24, 6:00 PM
DESY has joined the SciCat collaboration later than other big European laboratories, but in Jan 2022 it was decided to go for SciCat at DESY. Since then, IT has set up an OpenStack and Kubernetes infrastructure maintaining 14 instances of which a handful are actively used. This enables us to address independently several issues. We would touch upon those topics which we think are most...
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Jianli Liu (Computing Center, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) can facilitate the development and integration process of advanced photon source software and algorithms. A significant amount of repetitive tasks, such as compiling, testing, deploying, and releasing, may impede the progress of algorithm and software development. Developers often need to expend considerable effort maintaining servers and...
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Ibrahim FOUDEH (Sesame)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
The emergence of Rocky Linux, a community-driven enterprise operating system, represents a significant shift in SESAME's Scientific computing landscape. This paper explores the transition from CentOS to Rocky Linux by the computing group, examining motivations, advancements, and implications institution-wide.
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Lingzhu Bian9/24/24, 6:00 PM
ARPES(ARPES : angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy) is a powerful tool for observing electronic structures in solid-state materials, widely used in characterizing quantum materials. Spatially resolved ARPES (Nano-ARPES) allows measurements on relatively inhomogeneous surfaces, due to its sub-micrometer beam size. However, challenges remain due to the complexity of the surface,...
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Ana Clara de Souza Oliveira (Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) - The Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM))9/24/24, 6:00 PM
SIRIUS is a 4th generation synchrotron light source facility that was designed, built and is operated by the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS/CNPEM). Currently, SIRIUS has 6 fully operational beamlines and other 8 beamlines in technical commissioning, scientific commissioning or installation phases. Most SIRIUS beamlines currently have their experiment control solutions based on...
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Igor Ferreira Torquato (Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM))9/24/24, 6:00 PM
High-level control systems and Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) play essential roles in enabling users to interact with complex systems, particularly in beamline environments where precise control and real-time monitoring are crucial. Beamlines must provide tools that facilitate this interaction. On the Quati beamline¹, which is the XAS beamline of Sirius, the experiment control system is...
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Lina Zhao (The institute of High Energy Physics CAS)9/24/24, 6:00 PM
Synchrotron radiation (SR) light sources provide precise and deep insights that have been driving cutting-edge scientific research. Facing to SR scientific big data challenge, it is urgent to develop artificial intelligence (AI) analysis methods to enhance research efficiency including novel material discovery[1]. In this talk, I will focus on the construction of “Intelligence Terminal”...
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Saulius Grazulis (VU Institute of Biotechnology, Life Science Center)9/25/24, 8:40 AM
For more than 20 year, the Crystallography Open Database (COD) collects published crystal structure data and makes it available on the Web under the CC0 license in an organised, machine readable and searchable for. Currently, the collection of the COD has over 500 thous. records and is used for crystal analysis, material identification, DFT calculations, machine learning, teaching and much...
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David Perl (Diamond Light Source)9/25/24, 9:25 AM
At Diamond Light Source, several Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) beamlines focus on, or include, completely automated data collection. This is used primarily for high throughput collection, which has historically meant several hundred samples per day. Diamond is building its next generation, service-based, data acquisition platform Athena using NSLS-II’s Bluesky experiment orchestration...
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Ana Clara de Souza Oliveira (Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) - The Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM))9/25/24, 9:40 AM
SIRIUS is a 4th generation synchrotron light source facility that was designed, built and is operated by the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS/CNPEM). Currently, SIRIUS has 6 fully operational beamlines and other 8 beamlines in technical commissioning, scientific commissioning or installation phases.
The distributed control system is based on EPICS and the software solutions...
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Gero Flucke (European XFEL GmbH)9/25/24, 9:55 AM
Karabo is the control and data processing framework operating the instruments and photon beam-lines at the European XFEL. Its event driven nature is enabled by a central message broker that distributes control information to subscribed software processes.
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Matias Guijarro (Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI))9/25/24, 10:10 AM
BEC (Beamline Experiments Control) is a new Python-based experiment control software currently developed within the Paul-Scherrer Institute (PSI). It will be available to Swiss Light Source (SLS) users starting from January 2025 after the SLS 2.0 upgrade program. BEC provides services dealing with every aspect of a modern beamline control software.
Blissdata is a Python library developed at...
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Fanny Rodolakis (Argonne National Laboratory)9/25/24, 10:55 AM
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory is at the forefront of facilitating groundbreaking scientific research by providing state-of-the-art X-ray capabilities. Recognizing the critical role of software in maximizing the scientific output of user facilities, APS has embarked on a strategic deployment of Bluesky, a comprehensive software framework designed for data...
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Seij De Leon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)9/25/24, 11:10 AM
The learning curve for beamline control systems is often challenging due to the use of command line controls, or various custom made GUIs. Access to beamlines is limited and time constrained, so learning command line controls or scripts takes up valuable time that could be used for the experiment.
This talk focuses on the creation of a web browser application that acts as a beamline...
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Abigail Emery9/25/24, 11:25 AM
Bluesky facilities have been using ophyd as a comprhensive hardware abstraction layer for step scanning use cases but legacy constraints have made it difficult to move towards flyscanning. We present an update on the status of ophyd-async (formerly ophyd v2), which has now seen action in user experiments at both Diamond and NSLS-II to perform hardware triggered measurements.
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Vanessa Silva (MAX IV Laboratory), Zbigniew Reszela (ALBA Synchrotron)9/25/24, 11:40 AM
Over a decade ago, Sardana [1] integrated generic continuous scans [2], initially meeting only basic requirements. More complex scenarios, were implemented by migrating generic logic into plugins, often relying on hooks or ad-hoc solutions. In the past year, SOLARIS Synchrotron and the Sardana Community co-hosted a collaborative continuous scans workshop [3] with participation from similar...
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Antonia Beteva (ESRF)9/25/24, 11:55 AM
he MXCuBE (Macromolecular Xtallography Customised Beamline Environment) software, originally developed at ESRF, provides a common user interface for the Crystallography experiments. The software offers an abstraction to control systems and hardware so that the application can run within most beamline environments. Today, it has evolved into a very successful collaboration between 12...
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Daniil Kazantsev (Diamond Light Source)9/25/24, 2:10 PM
[HTTomo][1] stands for High Throughput Tomography pipeline for processing and reconstruction of parallel-beam tomography data. The HTTomo project was initiated in 2022 at Diamond Light source in anticipation of major data increase with the Diamond-II upgrade. With the support of modern developments in the field of High Performance Computing and multi-GPU processing, the main goal is to...
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Prof. Junrong Zhang (China Spallation Neutron Source)9/25/24, 2:25 PM
Since the user program of China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) was open in 2018, eight neutron beamlines have been operational, with the number of users reaching approximately 6000. The data portal of CSNS provides the services in data access, data reduction, data analysis and simulations for over 130,000 experimental runs. It is continuously evolving to meet the requirements of users for...
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Marina Nikolova (EMBL)9/25/24, 2:40 PM
Since the initial proof-of-principle X-Ray imaging experiments at the EMBL beamline P14 at Petra III [1], a high throughput tomography (HiTT) setup has been established [2], and is now offered as a regular user service. The setup features a high performance data acquisition and processing software system.
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Vincent Favre Nicolin (ESRF-The European Synchrotron)9/25/24, 2:55 PM
4th generation synchrotron sources provide two orders of magnitude more coherent photons, and thus the ability to collect coherent X-ray imaging datasets faster and/or with a higher resolution. Consequently, the increased volume of data requires dedicated tools to fully take advantage of the improved coherent flux.
PyNX[1,2,3] is developed at ESRF - it has been written from the ground up...
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Peter Willendrup (European Spallation Source and DTU Physics)9/25/24, 3:10 PM
The McStas[1-3] neutron Monte Carlo ray-tracing simulation project was started at RISØ in 1997 and has thus now served the neutron scattering community for more than 25 years.
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The presentation will give a brief overview of highlights from the 25 year history of McStas and further update the NOBUGS community on recent developments and future plans for both McStas and its X-ray counterpart... -
Shervin Nourbakhsh (Institut Laue-Langevin)9/25/24, 3:55 PM
Data from virtual experiments are becoming a valuable asset for research infrastructures: to develop and optimize current and future instruments; to train in the usage of the instrument control system; to study quantifying and reducing instrumental effects on acquired data. Furthermore large sets of simulated data are also a necessary ingredient for the development of surrogate models...
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Dr Felix Engelmann (Max IV, Lund University)9/25/24, 4:10 PM
During beamtimes, critical decisions on how to proceed with an experiment must be made constantly. As a result, it is important to provide feedback with the best possible data analysis, mostly in the form of visualizations, with the lowest possible latency. For low data rates, writing and monitoring a file works well. However, processing tens of gigabytes per second is difficult with a...
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Michel Fodje (Canadian Light Source, Inc)9/25/24, 4:25 PM
The Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility (CMCF) consists of two beamlines (CMCF-ID and CMCF-BM). The beamlines are operated through a modern computer software system for on-site and remote collection. It consists of a user-friendly graphical user interface for experiment-focused data collection (MxDC), a laboratory information management system for remote planning, experiment...
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Mikhail Karnevskiy (DESY)9/25/24, 4:40 PM
Modern scientific experiments often generate large amounts of data, posing challenges for real-time
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processing and analysis. ASAPO, a high-performance streaming framework developed at DESY,
addresses these challenges by providing a robust solution for online and offline data processing.
Leveraging TCP/IP and RDMA over Ethernet and Infiniband, ASAPO facilitates high-bandwidth
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Shiyuan Fu (IHEP)9/25/24, 4:55 PM
The High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) is estimated to produce a substantial volume of raw data, presenting significant computational challenges in scientific research. To address this problem, we have developed a high-throughput data I/O framework specifically tailored for HEPS, aimed at mitigating the I/O bottlenecks.Firstly, within this framework, we have devised a unified I/O interface for...
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Thomas Michelat (European XFEL)9/25/24, 5:10 PM
The Data And Metadata iNspection Interactive Thing (DAMNIT) is a tool developed by the Data Analysis group at the European XFEL (EuXFEL) to help scientists and users effortlessly create overviews of their experiments.
Traditionally, at EuXFEL, many user groups and beamline scientists use spreadsheets and electronic logbooks to track experimental settings, metadata, and analysis results....
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Hans Christian Stadler Kleeb (Paul Scherrer Institute)9/25/24, 5:10 PM
Authors: Piero Gasparotto, Luis Barba, Hans-Christian Stadler,
Greta Assmann, Henrique Mendonça, Alun W. Ashton, Markus Janousch,
Filip Leonarski and Benjamı́n BéjarTORO (TOrch-powered Robust Optimization) [1] is a new algorithm
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for indexing diffraction patterns, applicable when the unit cell
geometry is known. Originally based on the PyTorch framework a
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Yimeng Li (MAX IV)9/25/24, 5:25 PM
Presently at the MAX IV laboratory, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) based synoptic are widely used for monitoring accelerator and beamline statuses due to their intuitive, interactive and easy controllable feature. However, synoptic views have historically been confined to desktop applications, rendering remote access less user-friendly. In addition, supporting and managing updates of synoptic...
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Ian Foster (ANL)9/26/24, 8:40 AM
Powerful detectors at modern experimental facilities routinely collect data at multiple GB/s. Online analysis methods are needed to enable the collection of only interesting subsets of such massive data streams, such as by explicitly discarding some data elements or by directing instruments to relevant areas of experimental space. Such online analyses require methods for configuring and...
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Marjolaine Bodin (ESRF)9/26/24, 9:25 AM
ince its launch in August 2020, the ESRF’s Extremely Brilliant Source (ESRF-EBS) has resulted in a notable transformation in data management, driven by the heightened volume and complexity of data. The ESRF data policy [1] has been aligned in 2024 by the inclusion of processed data.
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The ongoing development of the ESRF data portal [2] based on the ICAT metadata catalogue [3], initiated in... -
Dan Allan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)9/26/24, 9:40 AM
Providing users with remote and random access to structured data is emerging as an important challenge for user facilities in the next decade. Our peers in industry and in other scientific areas are building such services. Tiled is a solution tuned to the requirements of user facilities, applying web standards and widely-adopted technologies in numerical computing to address search, random...
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Malik Almohammad (SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East))9/26/24, 9:55 AM
In today’s research facility’s landscape, experimental data management, metadata catalogue and access are playing a vital role on enabling the full research lifecycle, allowing the users communities and scientific institutions to collaborate, transfer and share data on a well-defined collaborative platform.
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Following the community best practices on delivering and exporting data, SESAME is... -
Gwenaëlle Abeillé (Synchrotron SOLEIL)9/26/24, 10:10 AM
SOLEIL Information System has a 20-year legacy characterized by non-uniform and siloed IT solutions that have been continuously evolving in response to changing business requirements, thereby increasing its complexity. A redesign of our information system architecture was deemed necessary to address this challenge, requiring a new, homogeneous, and flexible approach.
Currently, we are in...
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Hao Hu (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)9/26/24, 10:55 AM
In recent years, China's advanced light sources have entered a period of rapid construction and development. As modern X-ray detectors and data acquisition technologies advance, these facilities are expected to generate massive volumes of data annually, presenting significant challenges in data management and utilization. These challenges encompass data storage, metadata handling, data...
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Massimiliano Novelli (European Spallation Source)9/26/24, 11:10 AM
SciCat is an open-source data catalog providing data management, annotation, and publishing features for scientific facilities (https://scicatproject.github.io/). It enables tracking of data provenance, annotation with metadata, and publication of datasets with a unique DOI. SciCat is built on a flexible microservice architecture, allowing easy configuration for diverse use cases. The adoption...
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Oliver Knodel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)9/26/24, 11:25 AM
In the ever-expanding landscape of data management, navigating the diverse array of metadata catalogs such as SciCat, data publications on Invenio derivatives, and internal archives presents a formidable challenge. However, with the right strategies, this mosaic of data can be effectively combined and represented to unlock its full potential. In this talk, we delve into the intricacies of data...
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Oriol Vallcorba (ALBA Synchrotron (CELLS))9/26/24, 11:40 AM
ALBA Synchrotron [1] is actively implementing FAIR data management principles [2] across all operational beamlines. Data is cataloged in ICAT, [3] preferably using the NeXus data format [4], alongside metadata sourced from various information systems.
To ensure all metadata is accessible for data interpretation and reuse, gathering beamline and experimental conditions during data collection...
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Fredrik Bolmsten (European Spallation Source)9/26/24, 11:55 AM
ESS was born with open and reusable data in mind. Based on lessons
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learned from other research infrastructures, the data pipeline for
experiments at the European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS) was outlined
from the very beginning and designed to allow for FAIR data and real time
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Wout De Nolf (ESRF)9/26/24, 2:10 PM
Ensuring the accessibility of FAIR data within the scientific community is crucial, especially given the vast volume of generated data and its potential for future reprocessing. While findability is often perceived as the simplest aspect of FAIR, achieving it necessitates robust ontology harmonization within an open science framework. Without it, scientists may struggle to efficiently locate...
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Mani Lokamani (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)9/26/24, 2:25 PM
The Dresden laser acceleration source (DRACO) is a state-of-the-art high-power ultra-short pulse laser system[1,2], that uses an Amplitude Technologies Pulsar architecture to form main and diagnostics beams at different focal lengths and target density conditions. The setup can deliver from 6J to 45J of pulse energy at a typical pulse duration of 30fs and a typical frequency of 1Hz. During the...
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Carlo Minotti (PSI)9/26/24, 2:40 PM
We present the latest developments, the future directions and the current adoption of SciLog at PSI. SciLog is an electronic logbook developed and operated at PSI, which stores unstructured information captured by humans and systems during an experiment. It aims to replace paper notebooks often used during experiments and enhance scientists' experience by enabling them, e.g., to jot...
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Jacob Filik (Diamond Light Source)9/26/24, 2:55 PM
Using web applications in a Software As A Service approach is increasingly becoming an important route for science facilities to provide tools to their users.
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Diamond has developed two such applications; the XAS data repository and web-CONEXS.
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Anti Asko (CERN)9/26/24, 3:10 PM
After implementing a new Micro Frontend architecture two years ago, CERN's accelerator Controls group has acquired substantial expertise across various parts of the field. With an emphasis on agile development practices, Micro Frontends have facilitated shorter migration cycles, faster deliveries, and fostered a transformation in the development culture of web applications for accelerator...
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Cristina Cocho Martinez9/26/24, 3:25 PM
Historically, experiments were carried out by scientists physically present on the instrument where their sample was being measured. Recent socio-economic changes have increased the need for tools and mechanisms providing remote secured access to control the instruments and to access the generated scientific data.
Amongst those tools, a real time visualization of the instrument, including...
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Dean Keeble (Diamond Light Source)9/26/24, 3:40 PM
The well-known application Slack is primarily used for instant messaging and sharing memes. However, according to the people who make it, Slack is "... a messaging app for business that connects people to the information that they need".
For instrument staff at a scientific facility that information might be the current state of hardware; statuses of various data acquisition services;...
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Loic Huder (ESRF)9/26/24, 4:25 PM
The increasing complexity and speed of experiments at synchrotrons call for the need of efficient and well-established automated data processing pipelines. Workflows are the ideal approach for defining these pipelines given their ability to describe data processing recipes. This led to the emergence of many workflow systems, such as
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Hannah Parraga9/26/24, 4:40 PM
Data are essential to the scientific discoveries enabled by experiments performed at the APS. When the facility resumes operation this year, it will generate an estimated 100PB of raw experimental data per year from its seventy-two operating beamlines that house over 100 unique instruments. This data is generated as a part of over 6,000 annual experiments performed by over 5,500 facility users...
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Justin Wozniak (Argonne National Laboratory)9/26/24, 4:55 PM
Building resilient data streams for large-scale experiments is a critical problem in modern settings in which advanced computing techniques are more tightly integrated with data collection activities. Resilience-aware application solutions must include 1) policy management, in which science-level goals are presented to the system; 2) data movement telemetry, which captures system responses;...
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Leandro Liborio (Scientific Computing Department, STFC, UKRI, UK), Patrick Austin (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, UKRI))9/26/24, 5:10 PM
With [FAIR principles][1] increasing in importance within many fields, the challenge of ensuring that these principles are fully embedded in research outputs applies not just to the (meta)data itself, but also to the methods used to process and analyse it. If metadata associated with the raw data is lost in the analysis process, the Findability (which relies on this metadata) may be...
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Callum Forrester9/26/24, 5:25 PM
Since the introduction of type annotations in python3.x and the arrival of static analysis packages like mypy and pyright, more and more Python code is statically typed. Type systems work by providing compile-time error checking and a fast feedback loop for particular types of error at the expense of increasing verbosity and reducing the overall number of possible programs a language can...
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Igor Khokhriakov (DESY, FS-SC)9/26/24, 5:40 PM
In the rapidly evolving landscape of web development, the performance of backend technologies is a critical factor influencing scalability, efficiency, and user experience. This research aims to present a comprehensive performance comparison of Node.js, Rust, Go, and Python — four prominent technologies widely adopted in web application development. Through a series of systematic tests, we...
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Peter Peterson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)9/26/24, 5:55 PM
Software engineers, including those involved in scientific software, often mention that they follow best practices. While sounding like an excellent idea, this is often near impossible. Frequently, there is an opinion on what is the best practice. Some other things, like software licenses and naming conventions, are mostly left to the development team to decide. Our software team has developed...
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