Just a word that the CCP14 now burns and distributes the free Crystallographic
Nexus Virtual Internet CD-ROM, (incorporating CCP14 information). This is
presently
described at:
Nexus Site - http://www.unige.ch/crystal/stxnews/nexus/index.htm
(CCP14 Site - http://www.ccp14.ac.uk)
The aim behind this is to provide PC based crystallographic software resources
to laboratories in countries "isolated" from the internet. A talk on this
will be presented at the ECM 98 meeting in Prague in August:
http://krystal.karlov.mff.cuni.cz/ecm/abstract/f/abstf2.htm
http://krystal.karlov.mff.cuni.cz/ecm/abstract/f/2/768.htm
As stated in the abstract - "The IUCr(3) has decided to support NeXus as a
pilot project in CDROM technology and as a means of distributing information
in electronic form to those crystallographers around the world currently
lacking adequate connection to online services."
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There will hopefully be a CCP14 desk and demonstrations of software at
EPDIC 98, ECM 98, (and via the generous time of volunteers - at IMA 98 in
Toronto and the AsCA meeting in Malaysia).
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Subject to available resources and time (a yamaha CDR hooked to a Pentium PC),
these are delivered air mail with the CCP14 project (whose primary aim is
to serve academics) bearing the cost.
Much of the "free for academics" software is possibly better than
many commercial commercial packages. This includes a variety of
single crystal software, powder diffraction software (including a dozen
or so different Rietveld packages), Geological/Mineralogical software
from Stefan Krumm's web site, web-sites of interest, tutorials,
and the complete IUCr site. Much of it is now Windows GUI based and
is excellent for teaching and research.
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The basis of the permissions for putting information on the CD-ROM
was that it would not be sold - only given away. Thus given requests
in the past for this in North America, Australia and Europe - a
solution within the CCP14's budget is for people to consider
hosting a regional CCP14 auto-mirror.
Lachlan.
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick
Collaborative Computational Project No 14 (CCP14)
for Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction
Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, WA4 4AD U.K
Tel: +44 (0)1925-603703 Fax: +44 (0)1925-603124 Room C14
E-mail: l.cranswick@dl.ac.uk
CCP14 Webpage (Under heavy construction):
http://www.ccp14.ac.uk