NSTX S/W Site Map

This site map outline should only be considered a general guide.
Tabs:
• NSTX home
• NSTX Software home
• Frequently Asked Questions
• NSTX Data
• How do I set up my computer account to use NSTX software?
• How do I know what data exist?
• How do I look at data?
• Do I have to restore data?
• How do I find out about how the machine was running for a certain shot?
• What if I want to add my own comments about a shot?
• For a particular diagnostic, how do I find out which shots have data?
• What were the first and last shots for a run day? for an XP?
• What is MDSplus? What are these "tags" and "nodes"?
• How do I make my own Scope layout files?
• What "canned" plotting, data display and other IDL routines are there?
• Is there a way I can let other physicists know about my tags?
• NSTX Data Acquisition
• NSTX Data Analysis
• Do I have to use IDL to analyze the data? If I decide to learn IDL, where do I start?
• What TRANSP runs have been done, and how do I look at them?
• Is there anything like MINGL and LOCUS?
• What sort of relational database tools are there?
• How do I know when the between shot EFIT analysis is finished?
• My program needs the electron temperature and the plasma current as well as my own data, and I want it to run automatically every shot. How do I do that?
• How can I get postscript files from the WebTools plots?
• I want to put the results of my analysis in the tree, too. How do I do that?
• MDSplus
• What is TDI and why do I care? Is there a list of useful TDI functions?
• Who else uses MDSplus?
• Environment
• I don't have an X-terminal; how can I use the MDSplus tools?
• I'm having problems with my X-terminal or X-emulator. What should I check?
• How can I view my Tektronix plots made in IDL?
• How do I print my plots?
• What about making Powerpoint slides?
• Do I have to learn a new editor?
• How do I find out the current shot number?
• How do I find out the date of a certain shot?
• I hate VMS; what can I do from UNIX?
• I love VMS; what can I do there?
• I need to use VMS for something; how do I learn it?
• I need to use UNIX for something; how do I learn it?
• What tools are on the PC?
• What tools are on the Mac?
• What tools are on Linux?
• I'm away from the Lab; what can I do from the Web?
• What is the difference between the "physics network" and the "engineering network"?
• What is ssh and why should I use it?
• What is that authentication information? What if I have problems using the SecureID badge?
• Where can I sit in the NSTX Control Room?
• Error Messages
• Web Tools list
• mdsplot1 NSTX MDSplus Plotting Tool
• mdsscope NSTX MDSplus Scope Plotting Tool
• mdssignals NSTX MDSplus Signal Plotting
• ANIMATIONS
• mdslist, data values in spreadsheet-compatible format
• MDSpuls Shot Search
• DATABASE ACCESS UTILITY
• TRANSP Run Listings
• Setting up TRANSP runs
• Digraph List
• CAMAC Status & Configuration
• NSTX Controls Software Information
• Web Traverser
• treesearch
• MDSplus Signals and their Labels
• Logbook
• daily shot list 2001
• daily shot list 2000
• daily shot list 1999
• SHOT LISTS overview
• Unix & VMS tools
• MHD Physics Analysis (EFIT)
• Shotclock
• nstxdb.pro
• S/W Overview
• layout of the NSTX tree
• List of NSTX Trees
• shot cycle schematic
• Programming
• PPPL IDL routines
• IDL at PPPL
• IDL CAMAC Widgets
• Diagnostic info
• PASSIVE SPECTROSCOPY
• S/W Details

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• IDL
• How to Setup IDL at PPPL
• General Atomics' web page on eXodus
• Limiting "Flashing" when using IDL at PPPL
• Simple Colors in IDL
• Fanning Consulting IDL Pages
• downloading IDL Help to your Mac
• Introduction to IDL
• Using IDL for more advanced Plotting
• web-based help on user-written routines used at PPPL
• web-based access to old VMS Help at PPPL
• valuable IDL sites
• MDSplus access for NSTX
• PDF files on MDSplus
• www.mdsplus.org
• MDSplus Home Page at C-MOD
• MDSplus at DIII-D
• MDSplus Resource Page at U-Washington
• Scope
• PAD
• Traverser
• TCL list of available commands
• TCL Examples
• TDI command classes or index
• TDI Examples
• Creating a private MDSplus tree
  
• Creating and using physical subtrees
• MDSplus Access from IDL
• Database usage
  
• Supporting CAMAC
• MDS Servers
• Error messages/problems
• Logbook documentation on the web
• Logbook manual
• Accessing NSTX Meetings Remotely via RealPlayer or ShowStation
• How to Setup IDL and X-windows at PPPL
• nedit
• FAS
• VGDS
• many user-written IDL routines

Edited 24-Jan-2011 by: Bill Davis