For general logistical information about coming to Diamond, including accomodation and transport please go to these pageshttps://www.diamond.ac.uk/Users/Experiment-at-Diamond.html or contact the user office
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We recommend bringing enough HDD HDDs for your visit. Prepare your portable hard drives for saving a copy of your data. Only hard drives without password protection, formatted under Linux or Windows(excluding exFat) can be used. The usual size of diffraction data collected during 3 days at I12 can be 500 GB; the size of tomography data collected during 3 days at I12 can be several TB or more. Due to the large size of tomography datasets, particularly from time resolved experiments, we recommend remote data transfer to your university via Globus
A typical visit can generate on the order of 5-15 Tb of data. This includes all raw and processed data. You may choose to only take one of the two to save space.
At full resolution a typical tomography (4000 projections) can be around 60 GB, which once reconstructed brings the total to 120 GB (for raw+ reconstructed).
On the day
Users are expected to arrive at 9 am on the first scheduled day of their beamtime unless discussed with BL staff. Depending on the scale and complexity of the experiment, the morning is allotted to testing energies for user samples. Once the beamline is configured to the chosen energies it cannot be changed. The beamline is then aligned and both beams are registered, which can take up to 5 hours. We aim to hand over the beamline to the user in the evening of the first day. Please be prepared for this.
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