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introduction of the VAX 32-bit systems to simplify both control and data treatment at the instrument. 32-bit instrument control A microVAX II at the ILL with terminal and printer A. Barthélemy's archives The ... inclusion of the ATARI colour displays. When the instrument D17 was similarly equipped the control program was identical, but the ...

"Service du Contrôle d'Instruments" SCI headed by A. Barthélemy regrouped electronics and instrument control. D ata treatment strategy The control of neutron scattering instruments required precise positioning ... the unique instrumentation there was however pressure on the ILL to provide means for data inspection during the measurements, to ensure ...

As instruments were progressively transferred to more modern replacements and the complex environment simplified the overall reliability improved. M id 1970s - Individual PDP11 on new instruments One ... introduction of SEMS Solar16/40 individual computers for the 3-axis instruments and D1B with new electronics, and PDP11s for the other instrument ...

scans were analysed on the central computer. In the mid 80s the advent of 32-bit computing on instruments offered a wider choice for distributed computing, ending with ethernet connections around the Insttitut ... staff for these activities diminished. Machine code and assembler programming disappeared from instrument control, these tasks being ...

lectronic modules NIM modules (Nuclear Instrumentation Module) were used for rate meters, and as a powered chassis for detector amplifiers etc. CAMAC (Nuclear Instrumentation Module) was used extensively as the ... the first instrument to employ a DEC CAMAC crate controller, with its asociated DMA block transfer device to link it with UNIBUS ...

with a capacity of about 40 MB, holding data for each CARINE and NICOLE instrument appended into sequential files for each instrument. Depending on volumes of data these were copied to 800 bpi nine track ... number was associated with each measurement (NUMOR). On some instruments (e.g. D11) this was reset at the start of each year. For other instru ...

performance computing for instrument simulation and ab initio calculations and personal computers for the daily work and less demanding calculations. H igh performance computing Instrument simulation and ab initio ... used and still uses many external software packages but, it has also developed many programs for instrument control, data reduction, ...

the reactor was restarted in 1995 there had been little renewal manpower or money for instruments. Most instruments were still running VAX-VMS. Data were transferred to the central cluster and converted ... in page " Main system replacement " ) Users were encouraged to take away data even when the instrumentation and data treatment packages were ...

offered to scientists whose instruments had user documentation. There was hence an unequaled spate of production of internal technical reports describing use of instruments and software. Calcul Scientific ... and software, with issues about every two months. For the instruments, Lefèvre was assiduous in producing a technical note for each instrumen ...

Identifier) , and as scientific instruments continue to be upgraded, computer programmes developed via the FILL2030 project will help to plug gaps between the instrument and the value of the resulting data ... from raw data to extraordinary insights can be a challenge for neutron users. There are over 40 instruments at Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), ...