Experimental Data

Access to the results of the experiments

ISIS experimental data stored in archive, and the right to accessing data in this archive is managed through iCat. On isiscompue servers and local instrument machines the data are mounted at:

 /archive/NDX[INSTRUMENT_NAME]/Instrument/data/cycle_YY_N

On Windows machines within ISIS local network these data can be accessed using similar link:

\\isis\inst$\NDX[INSTRUMENT_NAME]\Instrument\data\cycle_YY_N

From Mantid GUI user can also access his data by logging into Catalog with his ISIS user name and password and searching the data, assigned to him. This may request downloading substantial amount of data through internet and may not work on slow connections, but if connection quality is good, users can get their data from the Catalog:

The data can be also downloaded to users computer using usual sources, (over network from ISIS, on external USB drive, etc...)

After files are available on the user's computer (either over network or locally) Mantid reduction scripts have to know how to find them. This is achieved by adding folder with the data to Mantid data search path:

Search in the Catalog and access to files directly from it (Checkbox highlighted by blue arrow with number 2 pointing to it) usually works in local facility network only.

Automatic user configuration scripts run on isiscompue servers and configure Mantid for users by setting up access for data in the archive and adding the reference to the users instrument and cycle to the data search path automatically.