April 2008 - Ifeffit - millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov

compiling ifeffit on 64 bit linux
by Matthew Ginder-Vogel 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Hello, I'm trying to compile Ifeffit on a 64 bit CentOS 4 machine and am having a few problems. I can get PGPLOT to compile without error by following bruce's prior directions to edit the makefile for pgplot http://cars9.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ifeffit/2005-September/002018.html I then compile Ifeffit using ./configure CC="cc -fPIC" FFLAGS="-g -O2 -fPIC" and everything seems to work okay, but when i try and run IFEFFIT at the command line it get this error [root@cluster ifeffit-1.2.10]# ifeffit ifeffit: error while loading shared libraries: libpgplot_iff.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [root@cluster ifeffit-1.2.10]# If I compile Ifeffit without PGPLOT support then Ifeffit runs without any problems. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks, Matt -- ******************************************* Matthew Ginder-Vogel Post Doctoral Researcher Center for Critical Zone Research Environmental Soil Chemistry University of Delaware http://ag.udel.edu/SoilChem/gindervogel.html (302) 831-0608 mattgv(a)udel.edu *******************************************

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problems with automatic update of ifeffit on Windows
by Stefan Mangold 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Hello all, we have some start-up delays (1 min) during some start-up's of the programs of the ifeffit packages. The systems are Windows XP systems. It seems, that the software can't connect to the update Server. Since our IT-Staffs deny to help to open the respective ports in the firewall, if I can't specify them, I search here for help. Can anybody specify the ports (out and in), which need to be open. Is there also an option to turn the update process off? Thanks in advance Stefan Mangold -- Dr. Stefan Mangold Institut für Synchrotronstrahlung Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Tel.: +49-7247-826073

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problems with automatic update of ifeffit on Windows
by Dominik Samuelis 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Hi Stefan, > we have some start-up delays (1 min) during some start-up's of the > programs of the ifeffit packages. The systems are Windows XP systems. > It seems, that the software can't connect to the update Server. Since > our IT-Staffs deny to help to open the respective ports in the > firewall, if I can't specify them, I search here for help. Can anybody > specify the ports (out and in), which need to be open. the port which needs to be open for automatic updates is the usual port for http access: 80/tcp (out). runner.exe just issues a regular http request to "http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ifeffit/updates//current.dat", with a timeout specified by timeout_connect. As this port might be already open on your machines, the delays could also be caused by temporary network issues, either on your or on cars9 side. All the automatic update stuff is configured in %IFEFFIT_DIR%/config/updater.ini . You have several options of decreasing waiting time, either by decreasing timeout_connect and timeout_test, or by setting timestamp to some future unix date, e.g. 1500000000.00. This effectively disables automatic updates till May 2017 (which possibly doesn't matter, as it seems, that automatic updates weren't used since 2006, roughly corresponding to the ifeffit1.2.9 release for Windows XP). You could of course use less offensive settings for the timestamp. It's easy to compute, since it's just the seconds from 1-Jan-1970. Cheers, dominik -- Dipl.-Ing. Dominik Samuelis samuelis(a)pc.rwth-aachen.de Physikalische Chemie I RWTH Aachen University Phone: +49-241-80-94840 Fax: +49-241-80-92128 Landoltweg 2 52074 Aachen Germany

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Proposal for a U.S. XAFS conference
by Carlo Segre 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

Hello All: Next year is the IXS meeting but for two years after that , there will be no conference dedicated to XAS for another 3 years. I have been looking into establishing a topical meeting (with the focus changing from year to year) in the United States in years that IXS is not being held. The first one of these would be 2010. My proposal is to associate the meeting with the Denver X-ray Conference (DXC) which is held in Colorado in early August. The advantages of association with this conference is that the people who organize the DXC are able and willing to take care of all the logistics (conference fees, rooms, hotel, etc.) and there would only be a need to have a scientific organizing group. In fact, the DXC has been host to several satellite meetings: lst year the fiber diffraction community held a session and this year, there is a parallel conference on stress analysis. Since XAS is an x-ray technique, I think that it would be a good fit. I have discussed this with the DXC organizers and they have indicated a willingness to be involved. The advantages of running such a conference is that there would be an XAS outlet for students to be involved with that would not be too expensive to attend in the years of no IXS. I am intending this message primarily for list members in the US (apologies to everyone else!) and I would appreciate any comments you might have about this idea before I begin to set it in motion. If Matt is OK with the conversation continuing on the list we can keep the replies public but if he prefers not to clog the list, please contact me directly. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498 Fax: 312.567.3494 segre(a)iit.edu http://www.iit.edu/~segre segre(a)debian.org

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Inability to plot in any space other than E
by Andrew Connelly 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

Hello, I have some EXAFS data at the S K-edge which all merges very nicely but I can't plot it under anything other than E. The other options are faded out along with all Fourier transform options, Rbkg etc. Is this a comment on the quality of the data (its not great)?! Or is it something else, the other plotting options work fine on other data (at other edges) I have. Any help / advice great fully received. Andy

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Reading individual data columns with ifeffit
by Matthew Ginder-Vogel 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Hello all, When reading data files using the read_data command in ifeffit is there a way to specify which columns of data will be read? I have very long data files and run into array size problems when I try and read the entire file. However, if I could read only columns 1, 2, and 3 rather than all 5 data columns I think my problem would be solved. I think narray may be the command to use, but I'm not sure how to implement it and couldn't find anything in the ifeffit manual. Thanks! Matt -- ******************************************* Matthew Ginder-Vogel Post Doctoral Researcher Center for Critical Zone Research Environmental Soil Chemistry University of Delaware http://ag.udel.edu/SoilChem/gindervogel.html (302) 831-0608 mattgv(a)udel.edu *******************************************

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FW: Brainteaser
by Anatoly Frenkel 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

I think this answer is as good as the correct one! Anatoly. -----Original Message----- From: Woicik, Joseph [mailto:woicik@bnl.gov] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 3:28 PM To: anatoly.frenkel(a)yu.edu Subject: RE: Brainteaser oh, i got it, you right clicked when you should have left clicked..... _____

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2007 APS XAFS School
by Julie Olmsted Cross 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

The on-line application for the 2007 APS XAFS School is now available at xafs.org http://www.xafs.org/Workshops/APS2007 ~^^~^~^~~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~~^~^~ Julie O. Cross Advanced Photon Source Argonne National Lab 9700 South Cass Ave., Bldg. 401/B4204 Argonne IL 60439 tel: 630 327 7825 fax: 630 252 0580 ~^^~^~^~~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~~^~^~

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FW: Brainteaser
by Anatoly Frenkel 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

-----Original Message----- From: Matthew Marcus [mailto:mamarcus@lbl.gov] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:57 PM To: anatoly.frenkel(a)yu.edu Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] Brainteaser Sorry about jumping in too quickly. I've had this very thing happen to me so I recognize the sharp edge rise. Maybe I should have replied privately to give others a chance to weigh in, or put ***spoiler warning - possible solution **** in the subject line. My apologies to all! mam ----- Original Message ----- From: Anatoly Frenkel <mailto:frenkel@bnl.gov> To: 'Matthew Marcus' <mailto:MAMarcus@lbl.gov> ; anatoly.frenkel(a)yu.edu ; 'XAFS Analysis using <mailto:ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov> Ifeffit' Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 6:52 PM Subject: RE: [Ifeffit] Brainteaser I apologize to everyone who Matthew did not even give a chance to think but the excuse is that Matthew is really good! It was a saturation of the I_t current amplifier. Another sign of that is too sharp a rise of the edge right after the pre-edge - it is when the I_t signal drops below the saturation limit. A comment: the last time NSLS had 20h of stored beam lifetime was in the 20th century, I think, but it is besides the point. Anatoly -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Marcus [mailto:mamarcus@lbl.gov] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:30 PM To: anatoly.frenkel(a)yu.edu; XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] Brainteaser The most obvious explanation for why the post-edge scans line up and the pre-edges don't is that the transmission chamber current amp or V/F is saturated and reads a fixed value below the edge. As the ring current decays, I0 goes down while It is fixed below the edge, so ln(I0/It) decreases as observed. With this explanation, and noting that ln(I0/It) decreased by about 0.05 in an hour, I infer that the stored-beam lifetime is ~20hr. mam ----- Original Message ----- From: Anatoly Frenkel <mailto:frenkel@bnl.gov> To: anatoly.frenkel(a)yu.edu ; 'XAFS Analysis using <mailto:ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov> Ifeffit' Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 6:13 PM Subject: [Ifeffit] Brainteaser Attached is a brainteaser which I think is cute. Too late for the April fool's day but still... Some comments: three consecutive scans of the same sample were taken in this order: scan 1, 2 and 3. Duration: 30 minutes per scan. If these data look unusual to you please tell us why and what could've happened in this experiment. Those of you who send first three correct answers will be acknowledged! Anatoly _____ _______________________________________________ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit(a)millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit

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