The Materials Microcharacterization

Collaboratory - Progress FY98

Michael C. WrightOak Ridge National Laboratory

MICS ORNL Annual Program Review

Oak Ridge, TNAugust 19, 1998

MMC Is a Widely Distributed Project

Participants Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign National Institutes of Standards and Technology Argonne National Laboratory

Support DOE - Mathematical Informational and Computational Sciences DOE - Basic Energy Sciences DOE - Energy Efficiency DOC - NIST US Industry Multinational Industry

Partners Gatan, Inc. RJ Lee Instruments Ltd. EMiSPEC Systems, Inc. Philips Electron Optics NSA - Hitachi Scientific

Instruments JEOL USA, Inc. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Graham Technology Solutions,

Inc.

MMC Is Moving Forward

We have automated many instrument operations One cannot have remote control without computer control

We have put web video everywhere 38 video streams at last count

We have several instruments online today Now that the tools are ready, many more will be online soon

We have actively promoted electronic collaboration Demos, not just talks, at major events in the US and abroad

Our industrial partners are active This is not easy to do but is critical for wide spread adoption of our

technologies in the future

We are active in education Involved in several classrooms and schools, and have developed a

proposal with ORAU for significantly greater interaction with universities

Our Industrial Partners Are Responding to the Needs of the MMC

RJ Lee is using streaming web video as part of its analytical services business and is incorporating remote operation in its next product

Gatan and EMiSPEC are implementing remote control in their next version updates

JEOL has changed its approach to design of its next generation control system due to its interaction with the MMC

Philips is announcing a new software interface for remote control at a trade show next month

Hitachi has converted its SEM to full computer control

MMC Is Promoting Collaboratories

A partial list of demos this past year ... Dreilaendertagung 1997, University of Regensburg - Germany, September 1997 NGI/HPCC meeting, NASA Ames Research Laboratory, Moffet Field, September 1997 Philips Electron Optic Research Lab - The Netherlands, October 1997 3rd Multinational Congress on Electron Microscopy - Slovenia, October 1997 4th Interlaboratory Internet Information Workshop, Gatlinburg, Tn, October 1997 JEOL, Ltd. factory, Akishima, Japan, November 1997 SuperComputing ‘97 - San Jose, November 1997 Vice President Al Gore - Oak Ridge, January 1998 Ford Research Lab, Dearborn, January 1998 Workshop on TelePresence Microscopy - Hobart, Tasmania,  February 1998 PittCon  '98 - New Orleans, March 1998 Netamorphosis NGI Demostrations, Highway 1 - Washington, DC, March 1998 NSF MRSEC Director's Meeting - April  1998 Frontiers of Electron Microscopy in Materials Science - Irsee, Germany, April 1998 MMC Congressional Expo - Washington, DC, June 1998 Microscopy & Microanalysis ‘98 - Atlanta, July 1998 High Performance Distributed Computing - Chicago, July 1998 Computing in High Energy Physics, Chicago, August 1998 Chemistry and the Internet, Beckman Institute, Irvine, Ca, September 1998

Security Is Vital on the Web

We are working with Bill Johnston’s Distributed Security Architectures project and intend to utilize the LBNL Akenti certificate mechanism for enhanced authorization

We have installed a customized CA to issue role-based X.509 certificates

We have installed Firewall1 to protect the ORNL machines

Web-based Remote Control of VG AAEM at ANL

Web-based Remote Control of Zeiss SEM at UIUC

Timbuktu-based Remote Control of Hitachi SEM at ORNL

Java-based Remote Control of the 1.5MeV Kratos HVEM at LBNL/NCEM

Timbuktu-based Remote Control of Neutron Residual Stress Facility

Web-based Remote Control of Neutron Residual Stress Facility

We Are Using the ORNL Electronic Notebook for Real Science

Network Based Video Conferencing is Possible, but Immature

Live Web Video Works Well Today