ID3 computers are linked together in a local area network (LAN). Access to the outside, general ESRF network, and from there to the whole world must go through the beamline router.

These are the devices that are now present at ID3 network:

Unix Workstation: surf5

The central computer in the beamline is:

surf5:
Hewlett-Packard workstation running HP-UX 10.20 operating system. Surf5 is responsible for:
  • Run all control applications
  • Support beamline terminals
  • Boot-up machine for diskless VME crates
  • Keep running the database for device servers
  • 2x2Gb disks to keep system files, applications and user data.


Terminals: surf4, surf8

To support operation two X-Terminals running on surf5 are available in ID3: the names of this terminals are

surf4:
(HP X-Term)
surf8:
(NCD X-Term).


VME Crates: id031, id032

At ID3 there are two VME front-end crates. In both cases the CPU is a Motorola 68040 running OS-9 on a diskless system. These are real-time systems responsible for running the servers to control most of the devices in the beamline.

id031:
Controls devices in the optics hutch and the horizontal diffractometer.
  • Vacuum
  • Primary and secondary slits
  • Monochromator
  • Mirror
  • Sixc diffractometer


id032:
Controls devices in the vertical diffractometer.
  • Sixcv diffractometer


PC's:


Other network devices: Mca, Gpib, Printer
Two other kind of devices are present at the beamline network:

MCA:
A Canberra Multichannel Analyzer: is directly connected to the network and access from SPEC through a device server. No IP number is attached to it. Refer to the Mca specific page to learn how to use this device and its settings at ID3.

gpibid3:
A Hewlett-Packard LAN Gpib box. This is a network device that acts as a GPIB controller. It is directly configured in SPEC.
a4bid3:
This is the name for ID3 printer.