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Main page Previous --- Top 4/14 --- Next T he staff From 1983 to 1992, Denis Rimmer was the head of both the Central computer Group and the SAD ("Service d'Acquisition des Données") For the Central Co

Main page Previous --- Top 2/14 --- Next Computing activities at the ILL started in the era of punched cards and lineprinters unrecognisable to todays personal computers with network solutions crossin

Main page Previous --- Top 8/14 --- Next Computation There was simultaneously a need for high performance computing for instrument simulation and ab initio calculations and personal computers for the

Main page Previous --- Top 5/14 --- Next E arly data formats With little processing power on the NICOLE and CARINE data acquisition systems initially there was little documented on the data formats on

Main page Previous --- Top 10/1 4 --- Next Engineers: Jean-Claude Falaise, Reinhard Klesse, Yves Lefebvre, Technicians: Bresson, Bounoleau, Epaud, Munnier, Schuba, Taffut, Thillosen, Thurel, Valentini

Main page Previous --- Top 14/1 4 Initially neutron scattering employed state of the art numerical control to provide 24/7 operations for precise mechanical diffractometers and spectrometers to maximi

Main page Previous --- Top 3/14 --- Next E arly days - CARINE and NICOLE Initially two systems were developed for data gathering. (see photos on the 1rst page ) Crystal monochromator instruments with

Main page Previous --- Top 9/14 --- Next H ead of service The Electronics Group Head engineers : (1969) Anton Axmann (initially Julich, subsequently HMI, Berlin), (1975) Winfried Drexel (ILL physicist

Main page Previous --- Top 12/1 4 --- Next DEC RT11, RSX11, TSX11 By mid-1984 most instruments were being controlled by PDP11 systems. D19 the large multi detector diffractometer was controlled by a P

Main page Previous --- Top 6/14 --- Next T he first steps in networking The first steps were linking the PDP11/40 of D17 in 1976 with a serial link which could serve as a terminal or be used to transf