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Data Access, Imaging Tools & Protocols

Remote Access to Diamond Light Source (DLS) Data Servers

The details below refer to accessing the Beamline i13 (Coherence X-ray Imaging).

Please note that all data created in /dls/tmp/ will be deleted after 30 days, so make sure you transfer it to Dropbox or other online storage at least weekly.

Setting-up and Connecting

Before you start, please install the NoMachine NX Client.

  1. Run NoMachine and click on New Connection
  2. Leave protocol as NX
  3. Enter nx.diamond.ac.uk as the host (and leave 4000 as the port)
  4. Leave default Password Authentication method and No Proxy options
  5. Tick Create a Desktop Link to get a handy shortcut

From now on, all you need to do is to double-click on the desktop NoMachine link and enter your Federal User ID and password. Note that you will need to select (or create a new) Virtual Desktop.

Remote SuRVoS operation

Run the following commands in a Terminal: Applications –> System Tools –> Terminal.

$ module load survos
$ survos &

See also SuRVoS Tutorial Materials.



Other technical info (could be obsolete) useful for troubleshooting:

  Linux Workstation [i13-ws010.diamond.ac.uk] 172.23.113.76 (NX port 4000)
  Compute Server [cs04r-sc-serv-95] 172.23.146.36

GPU / High Memory Usage

$ module load global/cluster
$ qlogin -q high.q@@com14 -l exclusive -l gpu_arch=Pascal -P i13

Other graphical options: qlogin -q high.q@@com14 -l exclusive -l gpu=1,nvidia_tesla -P i13

Further details are available in the online beamline manual.

Igor Chernyavsky, 2018/03/24 19:00

X-ray Imaging Centre at Alan Turing Bldg

Please book PC1 in advance of your session. And please make sure to save your data to an external HDD before the end of the session.

Running SuRVoS

Try either

  Running the shortcut SURVOS on the Desktop (C:\Users\...\Anaconda2\envs\ccpi\Scripts\SurVos.exe)

or

  [Start] --> Anaconda Prompt
  > activate ccpi
  > SuRVoS

Running Avizo

Note that there are Light and Full versions. One 'full' licence takes 4 'light' ones (out of a total of 32), so a 'full' version is not always available.

Igor Chernyavsky, 2018/03/26 18:00

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