Original Requirements for Science Studio:

(1)Convenient control of all aspects of an X ray fluorescence

(XRF) facility: visible sample, easy sample manipulation, all

functions visible, fast response (latency), rapid download

(60Mb/min), user- friendly data analysis offline.

(2) Similar control of Laue XRD facility (on same beamline),

very rapid download (8Mb/s), online data analysis.

(3) Control and download from of SEM/ EDX facilities at

Nanofab (UWO), running under proprietary software.

Network at present:

(1)XRF and XRD facilities at the VESPERS CLS beamline

connected to a Science Studio servers at SHARCNET

via 1G fibre linkage (XRD still in testing)

(2) SEM/ EDX facilities at Nanofab UWO

connected to the same servers via standard internet

(remote desktop).

(3) XRD facilities at beamline 12.3.2 at ALS (Berkeley)

connected via 10G fibre (to be established this summer)

Original Requirements for ANISE : (Active Network for Interactive Scientific Experiments)

(1)Development of real-time interactive software for XRD:

(a) Conversion of previous software to serial form configured to

run using cell processors(well underway).

(b) Adoption of “streaming” software for XRD that is able to

incorporate more intelligent features (in progress).

(2) Development of similar intelligent real time software

programs for XRF spectral recognition and correlation of

elemental distribution.

Challenges:

(1) Protection of source systems under all circumstances.

(2) Obey all user protocols established by the sources.

(3) Extend the software to develop new user paradigms (data

sharing, discussions, remote teaching sessions).

(4) Expandable

Science StudioData Flow

Science Studio Structures

ProcessingService

DataServiceData

ServiceProcessing

Service

ANISE

Business ModelLayer

PersistenceLayer

DeviceProxies

Client ServicesLayer

BrowserBrowser

LaboratoryControl Module

ServiceProxies

Science Studio

LabatoryControl Module

IOCs

Beamline

IOCs

Beamline

General, commonComponent

XRD Processing

XRF Processing

Science Studio specificComponent

Project Display

PROJECT DISPLAY (VESPERS)

Demo of XRF through http//:sciencestudioproject.com

Nanofabrication Facility (UWO)

The Western Nanofabrication Facility is an open user facility at the University of Western Ontario for the fabrication of micro and nano structures.

LEO 1540XB Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with an integrated Oxford x-ray system.

Oxford x-ray system is controlled by INCA.

INCA provides limited control of the SEM, and spectral analysis and quantification.

Nanofab Integration Design

Session and Data Management Screen

View of INCA Computer Screen and also SEM Computer View of Sample Image using Frame Grabber Hardware/Software

SEM computer sample image view

INCA Computer screen – EDX analysis software

XRF Spectral Processing using ”Peakaboo”

Current design of XRD analysis on SHARCNET

File Transfer

Improvements in Transfer and Processing

Download of an 8M file by internet: 6 seconds/fileDownload of many 8M files by lightpath: 0.3

seconds/file

Processing of an 8M file by serial IDL: 12-15 seconds/file

Processing of many 8M files by C-Cell/FOXMAS: 0.6 seconds/file

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XRD-Laue Processing Pipeline using IBM Infosphere Streams

Background

Removal

BBlobSearch

PeakFitting

Indexing

StrainRefine

MappingPre-

processing

configuration

User-triggered run:Images data & configuration parameters are send as data streams

Implemented

In progress

Scheduling Workflow using the YAWL module