Julian's Home Page at PCBUNN

Thanks for visiting my homepage, even if you arrived here by accident!


I make no apology for the bizarre ordering on this page, which I use mainly as an aide-memoire for myself!

You are looking at my home page. The archived main page for the PCBUNN web server is here. My blog is here.

I am a Member of the Professional Staff and Principal Computational Scientist at Caltech's Center for Data Driven Discovery, a Research Geophysicist with the USGS, and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. Prior to joining Caltech, I held a staff position as a physicist at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, where I worked on the CMS and Aleph experiments. Prior to that I was at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, working on the NA24 experiment, followed by a spell working on the UA1 experiment for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxford. I have a Ph.D. in Particle Physics from the University of Sheffield, and a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Manchester.

Material from the Archives

A 1999 article in Nature: "It's sink or swim as a tidal wave of data approaches", describing the challenges of big data.

A 1993 post to the early www-talk mailing list, announcing the first port of XMosaic (the first graphical web browser) to the VMS operating system,

A presentation from early 1997 showing screen shots of various audio/video internet based collaboration tools that existed then, including CuSeeMe, NetMeeting, vic, rat, MBONE tools etc..

CyberSecurity

Animation of the growth of Botnet traffic on a LAN.

2017 Announcement of opportunity to work on Botnet Detection.

Coursera Courses

The main Caltech Coursera web page.

This is my short introduction to Practical Genetic Algorithms, part of the Caltech-JPL Summer School on Big Data Analytics. (Both links currently down while Caltech migrates its content to the new Coursera system.)

Sonification

A proposal from 2009 that incorporates sonification of scientific data, entitled "Audiovisual cueing of significant events in large multivariate science and security datasets".

Pervasive Computing for Disaster Response

This was an NSF-funded project, in collaboration with UC Irvine and IIT Gandhinagar, India. See the project website here.

The objective of this project is to develop key components of community-based pervasive systems which will allow citizens to respond to disasters.

The Community Seismic Network is a related project.

Sandra Fang, a Caltech SURF student in 2012, built a "Home Hazard Weather Station" - check out her blog here. This is a photo of the completed prototype, which contains sensors for dangerous gasses such as CO and LPG, acceleration, barometric pressure, humidity, sound, light, and radiation (using a Geiger counter).

Judy Mou, a Caltech CS student, is now building a situation awareness Android app for a tablet and/or Google TV, that takes the sensor data from the Hazard Weather Station and combines it with a dynamically updated collection of regional environmental, hazard and news information.

There is a SURF Announcement of Opportunity to work on this project in 2013.

Voynich Manuscript

My guide to the Voynich Manuscript is now available on Amazon.

Cellphone Medicine

A report from Theresa Juaraz describing her SURF work on medical sensors: Rugged encapsulation structures and acoustic instrument development for inexpensive medical sensors

SURFers Develop Cell-Phone Medical Devices

I'm working with Prof. K. Mani Chandy on various aspects of using cellphones as sensing devices, and in particular as first response medical tools. Here's a proposal we submitted to the Gates Foundation.

This is our idea for a 10c Medical Checkup.

Here is a presentation by Victor Chu and Aleksander Palatnik, two SURF students who worked with us on this project over the Summer 2009.

Old MWPC Data from Georges Charpak

In the late 80s, when I was a junior member of staff at CERN in the computing division, I worked briefly on some multiwire proportional chamber (MWPC) data that Georges Charpak needed to have rendered as graphics. I used an Apollo workstation (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Computer) running in "borrowed mode" (whereby the application had access to the whole screen of the device). Charpak's data was of the head, chest and pelvis of one (or more?) patients, and came in three files: heglo1, kulin1, and tihon2. I do not recall what these names signified. I can remember Charpak getting quite excited when he saw the images! These data may possibly have some historical significance (I have been unable to find an email address for Charpak to ask him), so I have zipped them up, together with example Fortran code I wrote for decoding them, in the archive here for posterity.

 

AIRR, WinAIRR, Synthesizers, Minisonic, Electronics, Sound, Video and Electronics

Sony CDP-X555ES High End CD Player (1991)

Nakamichi RX-505 and RX-202 Cassette Decks

Marantz SR 2000 Stereo Receiver

JVC Reverberation Amplifier ECA-102

Realistic 2-A Electrostatic Speaker

Software for handheld devices and mobile phones.
A Modular Analogue Sound Synthesizer

This is a new project, started in October 2009

Minisonic2 Sound Synthesizer project.

The photo below shows my completed Minisonic2 sound synthesizer, which follows Doug Shaw's original design published in Practical Electronics in the early 70s.

A selection of Analogue Sound Synthesizers

My Nixie tube clock.

I found a nice little box to put it in in a shop in France. The biggest challenge was drilling the required 1" diameter holes (I ended up using a Forstner bit). Here are the guts:

At the top left hand corner is the power supply, which produces 250V DC regulated no load. Underneath is the clock board, which uses a programmed PIC to generate the required signals for the tubes. Then you see the four tubes at the bottom, with the cathode wires and multiplex anode feed wires attaching them to the clock board. There are also two LEDs, in the centre of the tubes, one of which flashes seconds, the other flashes half seconds. The two switches in the top right hand corner are used to set the time and control the brightness of the tubes.

 

 

Here is the completed clock as installed in the sitting room, next to an old writing cabinet.


I can't tell you how much fun making this clock was, and what a pleasure it is to see the warm glow of the Nixies telling the correct time :-)

I think I inherited my interest in electronics, radios, scopes etc. from my Dad, who is also a physicist.

My Dad and I went to buy my first scope from a surplus shop in South London ... when we got there, they had about a dozen ex-Navy Solartron scopes for sale. Of course, we only wanted one, and my Dad started going through each of them testing all the functions. By the time he got to the last one, we realised that not one of them was in perfect working condition: each had something that didn't work.

However, the guy who owned the shop had one on his bench, the one he was using. My Dad said "Well, what about *that* one?!". Of course it worked perfectly, and that was the one I ended up with.

But the real event that started my electronics interest off was buying an ex-GPO amplifier box from a surplus stall on St.Albans market. I have no idea why I bought it, or how little I paid, but when I got it home and opened it up, I was fascinated by all the little components, transistors, resistors, capacitors. It also had lots of knobs on it ... and I think this is a key attraction ... anything with a lot of knobs is by inherently very interesting. Because I wanted to know how the amplifier worked, I wrote a letter (I suppose I was about 12 years old) to the GPO. I told them the number on the box, said I wanted some details, and waited for a reply.

A week or so later, a GPO post office van pulled up outside our house, and a postman came down the drive carrying an envelope. Inside was a letter from a Mr. Betton, and attached to the letter was the circuit diagram for the amplifier. I still have it. Even more wonderful: the postman returned to the van, opened up the back door, and fetched out a pile of Practical Wireless and Practical Electronics magazines, tied up in string, which he then gave to me. I still have all those magazines, dating from the early 60s through to the early 70s. A gift from Mr. Betton, who said he had no further use for them, and thought I might like them. That sort of helpful benevolence is a wonderful thing.
 

My Single Ended Stereo Tube Amplifier.

Uses a 6SN7GT as a pre-amp, and doubled-up 6GF7A triodes as the power stage.

More details, including schematic, here.

A spectrum analyzer I made in about 1990.

It was built for 220 Volts mains, and included a 9V rectifier.

The wiring is what I would call "Boutique", as you can see from this photo:

The audio input is fanned out into five separate bandpass filters of my own design. Each filter is based around a 741 opamp, and tuned to a different frequency from the rest. The output from each filter is fed to a set of five LM341 LED driver ICs which each turn a bank of 10 LEDs on depending on the output level. The 341 can run in two modes: the first mode lights just the LED corresponding to the output voltage, the second lights that LED and all below it. I had a switch to select between the two.

In this image the LEDs are in the second mode, and the Analyzer is responding to a 5kHz sine wave input.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My design had several flaws, most serious was that there was interference between the lowest two banks of LEDs. I think the filters are very wide, and I was too ambitious in tuning their centre frequencies. The result is that, for low frequency inputs, the lowest LED banks oscillate in brightness.
 

Vacuum Tubes / Valves

Table of the my vacuum tubes (or valves). Here is the spreadsheet.

Table of my transistors. Here is the spreadsheet.

 

Precision Tube Testers

A web page devoted to the various models of Tube Testers made by the Precision Apparatus Corporation, who were eventually bought up by B&K Instruments

Here's a picture of my Precision 660 ... this is different from all other 660s I've seen in that it has more transistor and tube sockets. I refurbished the case, since the original cloth-like covering was very tatty. To do this I removed all the material, sanded down the surfaces, and applied three coats of Danish Oil.

More pictures here, including showing the instrument testing a 6SN7GT dual triode: (click on thumbnails for larger versions)

Lloyd's Solid State 5 Band Receiver

Ebay: $4.99

9H34W-34A five band receiver. The five bands are:

  1. AM Broadcast
  2. FM Broadcast
  3. Citizen’s Band
  4. Aircraft 108 to 135 MHz
  5. Public Safety 149 to 173 MHz

 

 

Tektronix Oscilloscopes

Take a look at my collection of Tektronix oscilloscopes and Plug Ins.

Look at the knob count on this baby - my Tektronix 556 Dual Beam 'scope.

Here's an image of the 556 in use, testing the Minisonic2

My 214 mini storage 'scope

Here's my 310A, 516, 5441, 561A, 321A, 310 and 575 curve tracer

 

The 7D20 plugged in to my 7904 mainframe:

Full details on all these Tektronix scopes is here.

Here's a TS-34A military 'scope dating from 1953, in working condition. I have the original manual for this 'scope: the scan is here.

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Here's my Telequipment S-43. There are two other plugins for this 'scope in my collection.

Solartron Oscilloscope

This is a pic of a Solartron 'scope identical to one I had as a boy. I believe these were used by the British Navy. I cannot recall the model number, but it was perhaps an OS-20?

My dad and I drove down to Dartford (South London) to buy it. When we arrived, the guy had around six for sale, and another he was using on his workbench for himself. My dad and I checked each of the
others, and none of them worked properly, so we ended up with the one the guy was using (we'd come a long way, and I think he was a bit sheepish about how the rest didn't work)!

MJS Sweep Marker Generator

Hewlett Packard 608C VHF Signal Generator

Above picture shows the generator as received. Below shows the generator after repainting, face cleaning etc.

Look at the engineering inside (there are several belts and pulleys)

I checked the performance using my Leader digital frequency meter: the 608C produces beautiful sine waves and is accurate up to at least 90Mhz (the limit of the Leader). The front panel meters correctly show the modulation and output signal levels. Somebody said that by using the analogue modulation input on the 608C it would be possible to broadcast video to a nearby TV!

The manual for the 608D (very similar to the 608C, but features a crystal marker) is here.

 

A Non Linear Systems Miniscope, model MS-15. Ebay: $18

The manual for the similar MS-230 is here (it is also on BAMA). Thanks to Marvin Moss.

Here is the schematic for the MS-15. And another version.

Here's a UEI Oscilloscope, model 301. It has sweep ranges of 30-500Hz, 500-5kHz, 5khz to 100kHz. This cost me $1.00 on Ebay :-)

 Sony TC-399 Reel to Reel tape deck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Information on the TC-399 can be found here.

Transistor Tester

My SECO Transistor and Tunnel Diode tester, Model 250.

Resistance/Capacitance Tester

My Knight R/C checker came with a 6E5 Magic Eye tube. Here's an animated GIF of the tube as the checker moves through the correct measured resistance value:

Allied Knight R100 Communications Receiver

This communications receiver, dating from about 1957, includes an S-meter and crystal calibrator.

More details here.

My Hallicrafters Communications Receivers (an SX-110, SX-71, S-107, S40A, WR600, SX-130, SX-62, 5R10A, 5R100A, SP-44, SX-62)

See here for more details.

SX-71 (Run4):

SX-28:

SX-110:

SP-44:

R-46:

SX-71 (Run3):

S-107:

S-40A:

WR-600:

5R10A:

SX-130:

5R100A:

 

 

Hammarlund HQ-110C

Aligning the HQ-110C with sweeps.

WinAIRR and AIRR (Anechoic and In-Room Response)

An article published in Speaker Builder Magazine describing AIRR, software for measuring loudspeaker response using a SoundBlaster card. The more recent version for Windows: WinAIRR.

An article published in Speaker Builder Magazine on the subject of PC-based sound.
An advert from Practical Wireless, early 60s, showing the Wharfedale Column Speaker, constructed from a concrete pipe. My father made two of these and they sounded very good!
A program that generates Maximum Length Sequences, and for each MLS cyclically autocorrelates it to demonstrate its special property. MLS is used in acoustic measurement. It has a number of advantages over pulse-based measurements. Here is some pseudo-code that implements MLS and the Fast Hadamard Transform (FHT) to make the calculation much faster ....  Contact me if you have questions ...
A tool for plotting the frequency decomposition of the sounds in a Windows WAV file.
Some code for manipulating the Windows Mixer.
Simulated sound of an instrument that monitors the collapse of binary stars into one another (it's big).
A presentation made to the CMS Software and Computing Board in November 1996, showing a selection of audio/video conferencing tools for Windows'95.
Some stuff on MBONE unicast routing proposed in 1994, but now outdated.
The Windows port of vic, one of the LBL videoconferencing tool suite.
JJB is a member of the Audio Engineering Society
Some code ( captjb.asm (Assembler) pmsj.c (C) getbuff.for (Fortran) ) for decrypting Videocrypt by rotating and matching scanlines. This was developed in 1994 for use with a Media Vision Pro Movie Spectrum video grabber card.

A Selection of Research Proposals

Physics Lambda-based Network System (PLaNetS) Proposal
Global Information Systems and Network Efficient Toolsets (GISNET) Proposal
The UltraLight Project
The Global Grid-Enabled Collaboratory for Scientific Research (GECSR) to NSF, 2004 (and in PDF)
The FAST Proposal to NSF, 2003
The CAIGEE Project (NSF Funded)
The international Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL)
Immersed boundary model of the Cochlea (inner ear) with Ed Givelberg
Accessing Large Data Archives in Astronomy and Particle Physics (ALDAP),
Globally Interconnected Object Databases (GIOD),
Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN)
Models of Networked Analysis at Regional Centres (MONARC),
Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS),
RD45
Continuum Computing Architecture (CCA) (also known as the Simultac Fonton) with Thomas Sterling
Lisp-based Beowulf Scientific Inference Engine with Thomas Sterling and Roy Williams
Distributed Simulation Infrastructure for K12 with Tom Gottschalk and Sharon Brunett
Relational and Analysis Visualisation Engine with Roy Williams and Santiago Lombeyda
Distributed Teravoxel Data System with Paul Dimotakis et al.

Cars Owned and Sold

Currently enjoying a Mercedes Benz SLK320 from 2002. This sports a 6 cylinder engine making 220 bhp. You can see the other cars I considered before deciding on the SLK by visiting my Pinterest board.

Previously: Jaguar E-Type, Porsche 911, Porsche 914, Triumph TR6, MGB GT here.

Holidays

Here is where we like to go on holiday

 

Patents

"Method and apparatus for dynamically directing an application to a pre-defined multimedia resource" - US Patent # 20020156870, issued 10/24/2002

Thesis

JJB's thesis (1983) roughly converted from Waterloo Script to HTML

Analysis and Visualisation (old)

The HEPVIS'96 workshop on HEP data visualisation and analysis.
The PAW(Physics Analysis Workstation) is a software system used in the High Energy Phyics community for visualising and processing large quantities of experimental data.
A presentation of PIAF, the parallel version of PAW, describing the hardware and software configuration used for this multi-GByte capable analysis farm.
A presentation of possible PIAF futures, as seen in 1995.
The programme of work of the Data Analysis Techniques section in CN Division, for 1996. Presented at the CN POW Meeting in Yverdon.
An Evaluation of PAW, presented at the HEPVIS'96 workshop (see above).
A description of the KUIP2TCL package, intended to assist porting of KUIP-based GUIs to Tk/Tcl. This was originally scheduled for inclusion in CERNLIB, but priorities changed ...

Multimedia Archives of JJB

A selection of photographs.

Video of a talk I gave at the JHU eScience workshop:  locally.

Pages with Quotes

Nature, "Briefing" 1999: "It's sink or swim as a tidal wave of data approaches" http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v399/n6736/full/399517a0.html

AAAS Science Magazine, 1999: "Physicists and Astronomers Prepare for a Data Flood"  http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/286/5446/1840

NCSA Access Magazine: "Fascinating Magic", http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Stories/higgs/higgs_3.html

Oddments

Decoding the Voynich Manuscript with Genetic Algorithms
ArchiveMail - Makes a plain text file out of every message in all your Outlook folders.
Article on Bio Feedback electronics from Practical Electronics February 1973 (PDF)
 
A photo of CERN's ALEPH Collaboration, from March 1986 (I am standing 4th from the right, at the bottom)
A new element discovered: Administratium
The user guide for the HYPOXIA reduced Oxygen treatment machine software.
 
Software for handheld devices and mobile phones. Bofinit Corporation.
A mathematical Rebus: SEND+MORE=MONEY. A general solver for any Rebus with up to 10 "digits". Check out my general Rebus Solver for the Pocket PC 2002: this can solve any Rebus with up to 8 letter words, using multiplication, division, subtraction or addition.
The Roswell Alien(1), and a different view.
A Dictionary of Cockney Rhyming slang.
This photo from the early 1980s is not of me, but of an unknown person who looked exactly like me at that time. I believe it was from a newspaper article about dropping Radio 4 broadcasts on Long Wave. It was sent to me by my friend Steve Hancock of CERN, who captioned it amusingly. The odd thing is that I had an identical model Grundig radio at the time. Very weird.

An article in Sunset Magazine about our house in Pasadena

Humour

TheSpoof: http://www.thespoof.com/

Java Bits and Pieces

A simple Java Mathematical expression evaluator. Source code is HERE.  Functions supported: *,-,/,+.sin,cos,tan,asin,acos,atan,min,max,atan2,exp,sqrt. E.g. it will evaluate expressions like this, in double precision:
java Evaluator "1+-min(-33,+4)*sin(0.5-0.1e-7) -atan2(3,4) +1/(0.051e-5)"
1+-min(-33,+4)*sin(0.5-0.1e-7)-atan2(3,4)+1/(0.051e-5) = 1960801.7782690835

 

Code for a Kalman Filter Track Fitter, developed by JJB and Rick Wilkinson in the GIOD Project (functional but incomplete, put here because several people have asked me for it!)
Solving the Travelling Salesman problem, using a Genetic Algorithm
Track finding in a particle physics detector, using a Genetic Algorithm
Arild Berg sent me a link to his superb Maze Solver, that uses a Genetic Algorithm
A simulation of life
A gravitational simulation of a set of masses rotating about a fixed point
A simplistic Chess applet

Of Historical Interest

Here is a programme of work document for CERN's ECP/PT Group, dated August 1990, drafted by Paolo Palazzi, and containing a contribution from (amongst others) R. Cailliau proposing a new project on "HYPERTEXT / HYPERMEDIA". This was to later turn into the World Wide Web. Of note is that this document pre-dates the official birth date of the world wide web, which seems to be pinned at November 1990 ...  The PT group never really got off the ground, although I do remember a very convivial set of meetings that took place in a good Auberge in the Jura. The relevant section follows:

"APPENDIX C: HYPERTEXT / HYPERMEDIA R. Cailliau
A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW PROJECT

Hypertext is a form of information storage that is a web of interconnected nodes. The nodes contain information of some kind (document, program, picture, sound, ...), the web lines are ways of getting from one node to another. Searching in hypertext is aided by various mechanisms, each of different speed and efficiency (there can be indexes and keyword lists). However, the user can also navigate by following paths or just hopping along existing links in a random manner. Thus there are no restrictions on how a node of information is reached (in more classical systems one usually has to know part of the location of the information). In addition, users can construct their own additions to the set of links. The information nodes reside on different machines, the links across machines are handled by hypertext servers resident in the machines.

In the context of LHC practically all information will have been generated by machine. However, there is no unified way of accessing this information by machione: different platforms are used and different formats have been used to create the documents. Hypertext seems at the right stage of maturity to introduce it as the unification of these otherwise incompatible sources of data.

The pilot project would aim at giving a minimum level of access to LHC related information from any workstation. No attempt would be made to implement a large range of features, thus one would not provide uniform access to bitmapped pictures on all platforms, or to fully formatted text, since the formats for pixels, character fonts etc. are too divergent on different systems. However, one would attempt to provide
for a small number of the most popular formats, and just use plain alphanumeric text in other cases. This is the only road to success.


Phases are:

- look at commercial products & get educated,

- select the level of services that can reasonably be implemented and the platforms on which they would be provided,

- buy all components that can be bought,

- integrate,

- populate.

Population should be done by incorporating existing documents only. The first phase takes about 6 months.

The introduction of this technique cannot be done in isolation for one project: it has to be done in conjunction with other services and groups such as CN, the administration of CERN, and the accelerator divisions. Technical details of the project are to be found in a proposal by T. Berners-Lee of CN, with whom I would work closely."

1) The "SHIFT" proposal, CERN, July 25, 1991 "Scalable Heterogeneous Integrated Computing Facility Testbed". Design Study and Implementation Proposal. (PDF) The authors are: Jean-Philippe Baud, Julian Bunn, David Foster, Frederic Hemmer, Erik Jagel, Joop Joosten, Olivier Martin, Les Robertson, Ben Segal and Rainer Tobbicke.

2) Cost of intrusions/hackers on CERN VAX Clusters, 1992

3) Report on trip to DEC, 1992, information on Alpha chips, GIGASwitch, and other NDA

4) Trip report from 1996, visit to MIT Media Lab, DEC sites, etc. other NDA


 

CERN's first "Computer" ... the incredible Wim Klein. Here is an extract (kindly provided from the CERN Archives by Miguel Marquina) from a demonstration of Klein in action, taken from his official retirement show at CERN, December 10th. 1976. (There is some more information about Wim Klein here.)

This is an amusing story I was told about Klein. I have no idea if it's true, or not.

An HP salesman came to CERN with one of HP's very first digital calculators, which were exciting a lot of interest in the science community at the time The DG himself arranged a demonstration, and invited
all the Directorate. The room was very crowded. The HP guy set up the machine, and when he was ready, asked the audience for two many-digit numbers to multiply together. Wim Klein had meanwhile come into the room unnoticed, wondering what the crowd was looking at. Somebody suggested a couple of large numbers, and the HP guy started to key them in to the calculator. And before he'd even finished keying, Wim Klein shouted out the answer from the back of the room!

Code Analysis

The Floppy and Flow User's Guide describes the use of this Fortran coding convention checker, tidier, and Fortran to HTML converter, together with information on its companion program Flow, used for making various analyses of Fortran code. You can download Floppy/Flow from Netlib.
An evaluation of LOGISCOPE. (old)
Using Logiscope to analyse various CERN codes in 1991.

Fishy Business

Julian and Sarah's Reef Aquarium

Eminem

I was CTO in a company called Equate Systems, a small Los Angeles based startup. We sold a software system I wrote called julianKeys. Most notably this software was a featured download on Universal Music Group's Eminem web page (Eminem Keys) at the time of release of "The EMINEM Show". You can still download the Keys here, but they wont work fully as intended due to the  lack of server support... http://www.eminem.com/eminemkeys/download/ . You can see an image of the EMINEM Web Site as it appeared at that time, showing the Eminem Keys download here. We also made a version of JulianKeys for No Doubt.

Various random writings

Reply to request for a loan of network gear.
Hypothetical CACR Entrance Examination paper
Buying a Juniper Share
Trip report (Colorado Springs, 1993)
Trip report (Toronto, 1990)
Trip report (Venice, 1994)
A request Bernd Pollermann and I made in 1989 for a student to work on distributed TCP-based document access ...
Trip report (USA, 1988)

Collections

JJB's coin collection.
JJB's stamp collection.

BUNN stuff (old)

England trip 2003
Bunn family photo, Sarah surrounded by Bunns
The Sarah and Julian England'98 Holiday Pages
Sarah's home page!
 
A poem by Jessica
The famous Bunn coffee machine company.
The origin of the surname Bunn.
A selection of pictures.
JJB's Potted History.
A delicious choice at Caltech's Athenaeum

Technology Tracking (old)

The LHC Computing Technology Tracking Teams.
A presentation made to CMS describing the mandate of the Technology Tracking Teams.

Simulation (old)

Simulation of proposed WAN models for tackling the LHC computing problem.
An evaluation of the modelling tool NETWORK II.5. (old)
A proposal made in 1994 on how to provide massive numbers of compute cycles for LHC simulation using PCs in the NICE system.
A program I wrote for the Monty Hall problem ... extract from sci.math.num-analysis

Reviews and Reports (old)

A paper on Collaborative Computing Environments for HEP given as a plenary talk at CHEP'97, in Berlin, April 1997.
A review of the CHEP '95 Conference which took place in Rio de Janeiro.
George Renevey's Guide to Restaurants in the Geneva area.

HTML Converters (old)

A tool for partially converting Windows Help files into HTML.
A tool for partially converting HTML into a Windows Help File.
A very simple plain text to HTML converter.
A crude converter for VAX Document to HTML.

VMS stuff (old)

A recipe and program for converting VMS mail to Microsoft Internet Mail.
The VXCERN Cluster User's Guide describes the VXCERN Cluster, and its use.
A presentation of possible futures for VXCERN/VXENG made in 1995.
A promiscuous mode Ethernet packet filter for VMS systems.
A VMS X Windows program for displaying points in Lyapunov space.
A User Friendly Interface to VMS Disk Quotas .. paper at DECUS Rome 1987

(The screen shows buttons for "Lose Document", "Get Irritated", "Give Up", and "Click Away Merrily for No Good Reason"!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

JJB discovers the picture grabbed with the Miro DC1 has an unhealthy blue tinge ...

 

 

 

 

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(From "Whizz for Atomms" by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle)