CIMA Crystallography Application
The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) project aims at "Grid enabling" instruments as real-time data sources to improve accessibility of instruments and to facilitate their integration into the Grid. A primary challenge addressed by this research program is to develop a generalized approach to instrument middleware that allows existing and new instruments to be integrated into Grid computing environments.
A client (My Manager) can register to request one or all of the following parameters.- CCD frames
- Bay1 Humidity
- Bay1 Temperature
- Instrument Enclosure Humidity
- Instrument Enclosure Humidity
- Crystal Temperature
- Liquid Nitrogen Level
- Campus Chill Water (In)Temperature
- Lab Chill Water (Out)Temperature
In addition a client can specify how often these should be sent. The sensor checks the register periodically for new registrations. My Manager registers directly with the instrument. Both instrument and sensor use the channel to send data to My Manager.
Support from National Science Foundation grants SCI-0330568 and MRI CDA-0116050 is gratefully acknowledged.
