News: ImageViewer, portal, Gnome workspaces, NeXus performance, MS PythonPath, TngUtility, Helix nebula cloud

• ImageViewer: added take background images and subtract background features

• P10 Diffractometer SW installed.

• Gamma Portal: ftp is now the recommended protocol to download files. Instructions can be found in Confluence.

• PiLC costs: Hermann Franz debits the accounts with the corresponding shares.

• P03, occasional beam shutter trips: after the logic has been changed, trips have no longer been observed.

• Gnome workspaces: updated Debian-8 issues with some explanations

• dawn has been installed.

• NeXus performance: tests have been performed, see Spock manual. Overhead introduced by writing NeXus in parallel to FIO is less than 10%.

  Jan Kotanski will present the status and the tools in the next meeting.

• Discussion about PythonPath property in MacroServer device.

  Up to now set to (Online file server):

  • /beamline/PythonPath
  • /data/beamline/PythonPath

  Proposal:

  • /common/pXX/PythonPath

• <TANGO_HOST>:/online_dir/TangoDump.lis: a versioned file containing attributes and properties of all servers. Done with TngUtility.py --dump, see the Spock manual (Helpers section) for more options.

• Helix Nebula The Science Cloud: Europe’s Leading Public-Private Partnership for Cloud.
  • Possible model for future computing
  • Including commercial service providers
  • Members so far: CERN, EMBL, ESA
  • Evaluate the use of cloud technologies for DESY-FS.
  • What are typical applications that could run in the cloud?