From kevin.brady at nist.gov Fri May 14 06:29:21 2004 From: kevin.brady at nist.gov (Kevin Brady) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 09:29:21 -0400 Subject: Software Message-ID: <40A4C9B1.90504@nist.gov> Greetings, My name is Kevin Brady, I work in the Semiconductor Electronics Division at NIST. We are bringing on-line a new Clean-Room Facility and are looking for software to do what I believe your Coral Software does. A few of us visited Cornell University's facility, where they were running your software, and seemed happy with it. Is the software freely available? Can it be modified? Is there a contact I can call? Many Thanks, Kevin Brady -- Kevin Brady, Group Leader Electronic Information Group Semiconductor Electronics Division Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology kevin.brady at nist.gov (301) 975-3644 From shott at snf.stanford.edu Fri May 14 11:34:55 2004 From: shott at snf.stanford.edu (John Shott) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 11:34:55 -0700 Subject: Software In-Reply-To: <40A4C9B1.90504@nist.gov> Message-ID: Kevin: I'd be happy to tell you a bit more about Coral. I'm a bit surprised, however, by the claim that Cornell is running it ... while a couple of their folks have a version of our remote Coral client running on their computers and while I fully expect them to actually begin to run Coral in their laboratory over the summer, to my knowledge they don't actually have a version of Coral running in their laboratory. So, I want to make sure that we are talking about the same thing. Basically, Coral provides the ability to: 1. Maintain lists of qualified users on each piece of equipment 2. Make reservations on each piece of equipment 3. Track usage of equipment by enabling/disabling that equipment during usage (with optional hardware interlocking of the equipment. 4. Allows staff members to recharge their time to other lab users or projects or accounts. 5. Report equipment problem and shutdown conditions. This ia a Java application and, as a result, it is reasonably portable to different platforms although Solaris and Linux are the platforms upon which existing installations are running. At the moment we support both Oracle and Postgres databases. It has been developed predominantly by personnel at Stanford although we now are getting two folks at MIT who have been spending a portion of their time over the last year in helping to develop this software. At the moment, we have been running Coral here at Stanford "in production" since Jan 1, 2000. MIT has been running it for a little over a year. Minnesota is the first place where non-developers have tried to install and configure it ... and, to be honest, we found that it is not as easy to get installed and configured as we would have liked. As a result, we are working on repackaging it so that it is easier to install and configure and are hoping to have that repackaged version available during the summer. At the moment we have a waiting list of one other lab at Stanford, 3 other labs at MIT, and several of the NNIN sites (including Cornell) who are interested in running Coral in their laboratories. Because NSF has supported (at least indirectly) much of the effort associated with developing Coral, we have been planning on giving Coral away to other US universities ... well, at least to other NNIN sites. By the same token, we are not interested in letting for-profit organizations have it or run it. To be honest, we haven't really considered a policy relative to national labs ... and that is clearly something we would have to consider. Part of our quandry is that, at present, we really have no direct support for distributing this elsewhere ... and yet are doing our best to try to be good citizens in this regard as it is our belief that Coral does useful things in laboratories of this type and that there is, to our knowledge, no commercially available software that does what Coral does. I hope that helps to answer your questions ... let me know if you would like any further information. Thanks, John From kevin.brady at nist.gov Fri May 14 12:00:36 2004 From: kevin.brady at nist.gov (Kevin Brady) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:00:36 -0400 Subject: Software In-Reply-To: <200405141849.i4EIndhH018386@smtp2.Stanford.EDU> References: <200405141849.i4EIndhH018386@smtp2.Stanford.EDU> Message-ID: <40A51754.5060904@nist.gov> John, I talked to the guys that actually went to Cornell, they are not running it, just said they were getting it, sorry for the confusion. As I said, we are opening a clean room and need software to do exactly what yours does. I lead a group that does alot of Web/Perl/Java/Db programming and were were going to build something to use from scratch. When I heard of your software, I thought we could hit the ground runnign and jsut modify what you have for our purposes. We are a government lab (Our Director, Dr. Bement, is also now acting director of NSF), and are non-profit, and are trying to save money by developing it ourselves, as you said, there is nothing out there to buy. We are pretty good, and woudl be willing to try to get your software up and running to look at here, we may be able to help with making the distribution easy to install, we distribute tools that auto install. Would it be possible to get the software to try it out? Kevin Brady John Shott wrote: >Kevin: > >I'd be happy to tell you a bit more about Coral. I'm a bit surprised, >however, by the claim that Cornell is running it ... while a couple of their >folks have a version of our remote Coral client running on their computers >and while I fully expect them to actually begin to run Coral in their >laboratory over the summer, to my knowledge they don't actually have a >version of Coral running in their laboratory. So, I want to make sure that >we are talking about the same thing. > >Basically, Coral provides the ability to: > 1. Maintain lists of qualified users on each piece of equipment > 2. Make reservations on each piece of equipment > 3. Track usage of equipment by enabling/disabling that equipment >during usage (with optional hardware interlocking of the equipment. > 4. Allows staff members to recharge their time to other lab users or >projects or accounts. > 5. Report equipment problem and shutdown conditions. > >This ia a Java application and, as a result, it is reasonably portable to >different platforms although Solaris and Linux are the platforms upon which >existing installations are running. At the moment we support both Oracle >and Postgres databases. It has been developed predominantly by personnel at >Stanford although we now are getting two folks at MIT who have been spending >a portion of their time over the last year in helping to develop this >software. > >At the moment, we have been running Coral here at Stanford "in production" >since Jan 1, 2000. MIT has been running it for a little over a year. >Minnesota is the first place where non-developers have tried to install and >configure it ... and, to be honest, we found that it is not as easy to get >installed and configured as we would have liked. > >As a result, we are working on repackaging it so that it is easier to >install and configure and are hoping to have that repackaged version >available during the summer. At the moment we have a waiting list of one >other lab at Stanford, 3 other labs at MIT, and several of the NNIN sites >(including Cornell) who are interested in running Coral in their >laboratories. > >Because NSF has supported (at least indirectly) much of the effort >associated with developing Coral, we have been planning on giving Coral away >to other US universities ... well, at least to other NNIN sites. By the >same token, we are not interested in letting for-profit organizations have >it or run it. To be honest, we haven't really considered a policy relative >to national labs ... and that is clearly something we would have to >consider. Part of our quandry is that, at present, we really have no direct >support for distributing this elsewhere ... and yet are doing our best to >try to be good citizens in this regard as it is our belief that Coral does >useful things in laboratories of this type and that there is, to our >knowledge, no commercially available software that does what Coral does. > >I hope that helps to answer your questions ... let me know if you would like >any further information. > >Thanks, > >John > > > > > > -- Kevin Brady, Group Leader Electronic Information Group Semiconductor Electronics Division Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology kevin.brady at nist.gov (301) 975-3644 From web at mihrphone.com Wed May 19 11:10:42 2004 From: web at mihrphone.com (MihrPhone.com) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 18:10:42 GMT Subject: mihrphone.com Message-ID: <200405191407413.SM01356@mail1.contentbroadcast.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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