Cryoshims

Just an end of week update! The cryoshims are all set to within 0.5 A of their factory settings. When Varian arrives next week, the field will be mapped and the shims will be dialed into their final values. Once that is done, the leads will be removed and that will mark the end of Oxford's involvement (as long as nothing is out of spec). The fridge will also have to be adjusted to minimize helium loss.

We have been hard at work getting the Sun workstation ready to run the console. Since we are not running experiments with it yet, now is the time to make sure it is set up properly for future use. In particular, remote operation is a key requirement. We have installed a VNC server on the machine which will allow users to run the computer from their desktops with very little latency across the network. Unfortunately it appears that vnmrj-2.1A does not play well with VNC, so we will have to appeal to Varian to get it working. We also will need to discuss with our IT department how best to forward outside traffic through the campus firewall to the spectrometer computer. We think remote operation will be the best option for our users in the future, so we are working hard to accomplish these goals.

As always, we are happy to hear from our potential users, so don't hesitate to contact any of us with your comments and questions.

[Update 08/12/05 2:39PM]
We have fixed the problem with vnmrj and VNC connections!