Thanks to all of you who gave your opinions/views, experiences with
Topspin and servers and suggestions in general. I appreciate every
input (I'm the sole NMR guy in my current company so it's nice to
communicate with others who face/have already dealt with the same
perspectives/problems).
We will definitely have to explore a number of other avenues, and
MestreC, Nuts and ACD will be among them, so Topspin will be on hold
until further investigation. In preparation for (hopefully/potentially)
some inspections from various regulatory agencies in the not-too-distant
future, I have made a conscious decision to only let NMR data be
accessible on the IT backed-up Linux server (which in turn is
NFS-mounted to the O2 data processing station where users log into from
their PC's using X-Win32. But this limits us to a) screenshot pasting
(less than ideal), and/or b) printing to file as jpeg, tiff, png on the
Unix side, followed by ftp'ing that file back (in binary) to the PC
world for pasting into a B. Gates document format.
Well, since I wrote the previous paragraph, I can now correct myself because, low and behold, my IT group has come to the rescue; they
already had Samba running (for some other purpose), which has turned out
to allow us to bypass the ftp-step by mapping the Linux drive (where the
NMR data live) on the PC. This way, we can almost do cut-and-paste: we
can take advantage of our existing technologies, i.e. using X-Win32 to
log into our SGI data station with a node-locked license of the XWIN
suite, print-to-file function in XWINPLOT, saving the spectrum as file
type e.g. jpeg in the 'Portrait'-orientation - because I found that when
pasting this jpeg into, say Word, it seems to always get turned another
quarter turn - and we most often wish the spectrum to come out in
'landscape'. I'll be writing up a little description of how to do this
for my diverse crowd of users with very different backgrounds, not only
diverse with respect to NMR experience but also diverse in
computer-savvyness but all willing to learn and adjust - making my life
and work here, a challenge but also a lot fun.
Jens
-----Original Message-----
> From: Jens Knudsen [ mailto:JKnudsen_at_arenapharm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:35 AM
> To: BUM
> Subject: Topspin (or PC vs. SGI)
Esteemed colleagues,
Please give me your input/advice on how powerful a PC you think (or maybe:
know) is necessary to allow between approximately 10 and 20 simultaneous
users to process Bruker data in Topspin without detrimental effects or
significant slowing. My question is intended to gauge the needs for a PC
that we wish to set up as a data processing station only. I will try to
keep 'my' three O2 spectrometer hosts alive as long as I can, and we still
do have the luxury of an additional O2 for processing also but I'm giving
in and trying to make it more direct 'copy-and-paste'-easy to put a
spectrum in a PC document.
Thanks in advance for any responses.
Jens Knudsen
Arena Pharmaceuticals
San Diego, CA
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