What's new ?

[Kristian Nielsen]

> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 17:13:02 +0100
> From: Farhi <farhi at ill.fr>

Hi Emmanuel,

I am sorry that I haven't been in touch. You new components are still
sitting in my mailbox, I have been intending to put them up on the web
page but just haven't found the time yet. I promise I will put them up
this week. They will certainly be useful for other McStas users.

Recently I finished the first stable version of a graphical user
interface for McStas. It automatically compiles and runs simulations,
and is particularly useful for re-running old simulations with slightly
different parameters. If you are interested in testing it, I could send
you a new version of McStas?

I am of course looking forward to learning more about your phonon
work. Currently we are starting to investigate single crystals in detail
here at Risø.

I am of course very happy to see that there is a great deal of activity
on Monte Carlo at the ILL (I also saw the Monte Carlo proposal in the
Millennium Program, good luck on that!). I is quite unfortunate that I
have been so busy recently, hopefully this will improve soon -- I do not
want you to loose steem in your very active work on McStas! So keep on
sending we your ideas and nagging me when I am slow to respond!

About the web mirror: I am not quite sure what you had in mind. I
suppose just a passive mirror would be of limited use (unless the intent
is to speed up access from within the ILL?). It seems to me that what is
really needed is some setup where selected people at the ILL could add
to the web pages (eg. the component download page) so that things can
appear quickly without the need to wait for action on my part. Maybe a
two-way mirror, where changes at both the ILL and Risø servers are
mirrored back and forth. What do you think? I should certainly be able
to handle any technical aspects at Risø in whatever way is most
convenient for you.

 - Kirstian.

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Kristian Nielsen        kristian.nielsen at risoe.dk
Risø National Laboratory
Condensed Matter Physics and Chemistry Department
Tel. +45 4677 5515   Fax +45 4677 4790