Finally the report contains a description of our X-ray and computing facilities . Effective trouble shooting has allowed most efficient use of these facilities. Our instrument design and construction has continued. Mike Pickford has been joined in the workshop by Mike Pritchard . In computing, as described in detail in the report by Richard Bryan , the major addition has been the Digital Alphaserver running the Digital Unix operating system.
Storage continues to be a major item.
The disk space corresponds to about 250Gbytes of storage. Extra sockets have been included to allow for future expansion. Mark Sansom was one of 18 applicants who successfully bid for a 4M parallel computing facility for multidisciplinary research to be housed in the Computing Laboratory. Dr Kathryn Measures has been appointed as research officer to run the computer and she has resigned her appointment with us. We were grateful for Kathryn's supportive role for computing in LMB and her friendly and effective service to users.