VBL Introduction
Crystal 25
chris.myers@versi.edu.au
Rev 1.2
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Initiative
Victorian eResearch Strategic
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•What is VeRSI
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eResearch
Where Science, Technology and Creativity Meet
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• VeRSI Enabled Projects
• > Ambulatory motion studies
• > Distributed treatment planning database
• > Neuroscience and biomedical imaging
• > Virtual beam Line design
• > Management of laboratory data and
resources
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• VeRSI is about science.
• Very, very fast science.
Intro image from Steve Melnikoff
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VBL Introduction
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Why we need a VBL
Science particularly that based on large instruments
increasingly involves distributed, global collaborations
enabled by the internet and using very large scale data
collections, high performance computing resources,
tele-science (remote access and control of
instrumentation) and collaborative visualisation. For the
Australian Synchrotron the Virtual Beam Line will be a
model for this sort of distributed access.
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VBL Overview
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VBL Workflow
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Exam System
The online exam system allows remote users to take an exam via the
internet. The features of this system include:
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Multiple choice questions
Multiple answer multiple choice
Automatic marking
Picture and/or text questions and answers
Exam timer
Examines are emailed the result of the exam
Examiners are emailed outcome of an examines exam and what
questions they got wrong
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Exam System
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Video Presentation
Slide Show
Extra related files for each exam
Question pools
Automatic Image resizing
A re-sit exam option, which allows examines to re-sit
an exam without having to go through slides again.
Examines can email Examiners questions before
starting an exam.
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Exam System
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Exam System
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Exam System
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Exam System
• Important message
• The exam system will be open
source.
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FSM
FSM web page with live data
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FSM
Base system By ASP Controls team
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Only available onsite.
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We modified the same program to write its output to mySQL
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and then added a front-end web page.
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Web version is real-time.
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eVBL
The eVBL or educational Virtual Beam Line has been developed as a support
and development tool for the VBL proper as well as delivering a useful
environment the education and outreach of synchrotron science to educators.
In its support and development role the eVBL we deliver primary rich client
interface screen that will encompass basic functions such as motor control,
sample / overview video capture, sample interpretation, training, usability,
client interaction and support requirements. It will also show that VBL
technology is viable and achievable from the Australian synchrotron.
In its education role the eVBL will deliver an invaluable source of outreach
from the ASP and VeRSI into secondary collage and 1st year Higher education
as both an introduction to synchrotron science at the ASP and an experimental
platform to perform a basic double-slit optical experiments.
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eVBL
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Work in progress
• Collaboration system
• Storage/compute system/gateway
• Beam Line Access system
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Future Work
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V eRSI Software and systems
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•Thank-you
•Any Questions