<title>FNAL - in Tim's US trip '92</title>
<h1>At FNAL</h1>
<h2>On-Line Support</h2>
(This is the rough equivalent of the CERN ECP/DS group.)
Within OLS,
Don Petravik leads the on-line software group. He feels strongly about 
good documentation, having written is own and spent some time indexing it.
He sees the availability of W3 clients as a strong incentive to
start producing online documents in hypertext form. Currently
documents are not on-line, and are produced by a number
of differents word processors.
<p>
The other groups within OLS are Data Aquisition Hardware and DA Software.
Johnathan Streets in DA software considers putting up a W3 server for
the exitsing VMS-based "DOC-DB" system.
<h2>ACCESS</h2>
Judy Nichols heads the ACCESS Liason Group, which provides consultancy for
experiments.
<p>
Janet Weber understands W3 pretty well. She had already got the clients
running befroe I came, and after watching Gary and me set up a 
<a href=http://nhmxm0.fnal.gov:80/>HEPNET server</a>,
she made <a hrefX=http://cdsun3.fnal.gov:80/>her own</a>.
<p>
Farhad Abar-L is enthusiastic about W3. The group discussed the
possible W3 support which they could provide within FNAL.
There was serious concern about support levels from W3 developes
outside FNAL (Why no Viola port to SGI?)
<p>
The port of Viola to the SGI will be a test case.
If it can be done easily or Pei comes up with the goods,
it will be taken as a good omen.
FNAL has more SGI machines than anything else.

<h2>Physics Analysis Tools Group</h2>
<p>
Art Keymer was the author of one of the long series of
<a href=NewsSchemes.html>news schemes</a>
which FNAL use and are using. Art is a VMS enthusiast and now has www for VMS.
He suggests a Viola port would be a good move.
<p>
Lynn Garren has a VMS machine with a color display which seems to fox
Viola ... it complains "failed to allocate color 'yellow'" and loops!
Lynn also is onvolved with CERNLIB support and ffels it is getting unwieldly
in its size, though she wasn't sure whether fragmentation would improve it.
<p>
John Marrafino gets the CERNLIB distribution on arrival at FNAL,
and is concerned that
the releases have recently lost their cleanliness.
He puts it down to the decoupling of CNL releases and CERNLIB
releases, removing the hard deadline from CERNLIB releases.
Whatever the reason, he has found that things have been released piecemeal,
with fixes following, rather than in one neat lump.
<p>
TBC...
<h2>HEPNet</h2>
Dave Martin and Gary Roediger picked up the W3 code and I helped them
install a <a href=nhmxw0.fnal.gov:80/>server</a>.
Dave is the hep.net contact person in the DDN NIC's whois database.
(How about a W3-whois gateway, someone?)

<h2>The Library Automation project</h2>
Paula Garret is in charge of this, with John also working on it, and the
inimitable Dave Ritchie acting as "technical consultant".
They decided about 4 years ago to go with Data Research Associates (DRA)
for their library system. These guys seemed to klnow about networking.
They are rather VMS and Decnet oriented. FNAL have all the packages of
the DRA product up except the serials.
They have commissioned DRA to rwite code to import the SLAC preprint data.
<p>
Dave sees image viewing as important and DRA have some experience in that
area, all very DEC-specific. 
He feels FNAL needs to fulfil government "record management"
requirements for email traffic for example. An email archiver and
manager seems a useful project of general use and one which
we all need (especially those whose mail accumulates while they
go on trips!).
<p>
A W3 gateway for the library might be quite easy (write it in DCL?). 
Would DRA be interested?
<h2>D0</h2>
A quick trip to D0 allowed me to show W3 to Herbert Greenlee and Adam Para.
The now have a <a href=http://d0sgi5.fnal.gov:80/>server</a> running
with some plain text files.
They really need Viola for Sillicon Graphics as SGI is all they have.
The Daemon (0.4) compiled for SGI no problem. (Note SGI has inetd.conf in /usr/etc not /etc, for the documentation).
They would like runoff to html converters and/or vice-versa.





