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Portal Documentation

Running portals:

portal.aei.mpg.de

athena.ncsa.uiuc.edu

MyProxy Servers:

The active myproxy server for a given portal is displayed on the login page.

A proxy is loaded onto the myproxy server by running the myproxy-init command

myproxy-init -s <myproxy-server-name>

The current myproxy servers are

  • myproxy.ascportal.org
  • myproxy.gridlab.org
  • athena.ncsa.uiuc.edu

  • Annnouncing Cactus Simulations to the portal:

    In order for a simulation to communicate with the portal one must include the following thorns AEIDevelopment/Announce (from the cvs.aei.mpg.de:/numrelcvs repository), CactusConnect/HTTPD, and CactusConnect/Socket (from the cvs.cactuscode.org:/cactusdevcvs repository). The default setup is to announce to both active portals and to use the 9296 port value for the XMLRPC server. The XMLRPC port used by a given portal is printed on the simulations list page.

    Machines known to successfully announce to the portal:

    modi4.ncsa.uiuc.edu
    platinum.ncsa.uiuc.edu
    titan.ncsa.uiuc.edu
    nexus.ncsa.uiuc.edu
    harpo.wustl.edu
    hydra.wustl.edu
    lemieux.psc.edu
    ctf01.sdsc.edu (Teragrid)
    dtf-login1.sdsc.edu (Teragrid)
    origin.aei-potsdam.mpg.de
    lego.bu.edu

    For running the HTTPD server on:

  • WashU machines      set HTTPD port to 10050.
  • AEI machines      set HTTPD port to 7990
  • for machines without firewalls any valid port number will suffice

  • An alternative way of setting the HTTPD port parameter is to set the environment variable HTTPD_PORT on the machine running the simulation.

    Users Guide html ps pdf [updated September 11, 2002]

    ASC Components Summary[updated July 19, 2002]
       Describes the individual modules and interfaces that comprise the ASC portal

    New Features Page[updated July 19, 2002]
      Description of the latest features added to the ASCPortal

    Technical Guide
    FAQ
    Glossary of Terms

    WUGRAV UIUC UChicago AEI Contact kdi_web@wugrav.wustl.edu with comments regarding this page. Last updated Oct. 10, 2001. NASA NSF