  The first eight years of operation of the Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer
(CNCS) at the Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge is being reviewed. The
instrument has been part of the facility user program since 2009, and more than
250 individual user experiments have been performed to date. CNCS is an
extremely powerful and versatile instrument and offers leading edge performance
in terms of beam intensity, energy resolution, and flexibility to trade one for
another. Experiments are being routinely performed with the sample at extreme
conditions: T~0.05K, p>=2GPa and B=8T can be achieved individually or in
combination. In particular, CNCS is in a position to advance the state of the
art with inelastic neutron scattering under pressure, and some of the recent
accomplishments in this area will be presented in more detail.
