In this page, I will be posting updates and announcements for all the web services and tools that I am responsible of maintaining. You can check what is (and what is planned to be) happening for those web-based tools, including,


Monitor the services status here.


⚠️ - Emergency, sometimes, servers may be down, expectedly or unexpectedly

πŸ“’ - Announcement, planned maintenance of servers

πŸ“ - Update, planned or executed updates to services and tools


πŸ“ [02/18/2025 14:00:45 EST] Powder diffraction software development roadmap available here.


πŸ“ [02/15/2025 00:43:28 EST] The server powder.ornl.gov is back after an emergency outage. The following three services should all be working now, powder.ornl.gov, powder.ornl.gov/hub and powder.ornl.gov/forum.


⚠️ [02/15/2025 00:33:36 EST] The powder diffraction documentation server (powder.ornl.gov), together with two associated directories (powder.ornl.gov/hub and powder.ornl.gov/forum), is currently down due to server-side issue. I will post update once it is back.


πŸ“ [02/12/2025 00:00:27 EST] A new experiment simulator tool is added in ADDIE for experimental planning purpose at HB-2A and HB-2C instruments at HFIR, ORNL. URL: https://addie.ornl.gov/hfirestimate.