# Presentation: 271242

## The Materials Microcharacterization Collaboratory - Progress FY98

**Michael C. Wright**
**Oak Ridge National Laboratory**
**MICS ORNL Annual Program Review**
**Oak Ridge, TN**
**August 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