[Xrays@aps.anl.gov] Interest for Scientific Software

[Yong Chu]

Dear Colleagues,

The software and data handling/storage are of significant importance to 
me and my collaborators.  We routinely produce over 10-50 Gbites of data 
per day, when we are concious about saving only the useful data.   The 
following issues are important to me.

1) fast saving of data for the acqusition so that the bottlenect of the 
data collection is not on the saving time.
2) backup and safe storage of large amount of data (100~200 Gbites over 
per week).
3) implementation of the imaging process software (that we developed in 
IGOR)  into a better platform (such as Java or others) so that the 
software can be distributed easily without copy right issues.
4) find a way to run the imaging processing software on faster machine 
with a close tie with the data acqusition (i.e. as soon as the data are 
collected, they are processed and the results can be viewed).

Please let me know how I can give my input to the Scientific Software 
Workshop.
Sinerely,

Yong Chu
630-252-0150