Teuthis 1.0

User Manual

October 5, 2005

Paul Ricker (ricker AT ncsa.uiuc.edu)

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Urbana, IL 61801

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1. Contacting us
   

2. Getting started

   1. Requirements

   2. Installation

   3. Philosophy

   4. A sample session

3. User interface tour

   1. Project view

   2. File menu

   3. View menu

   4. Settings menu

4. Configuring resources

   1. Applications

   1. Descriptive fields
   2. Building and configuring
   3. Parameter files and restarting
   4. Settings for common applications
      

   2. Machines

   1. Descriptive fields
   2. Access method
   3. Job submission
      
   4. Path settings
      

5. Managing workflow

   1. Projects

   1. Descriptive fields
   2. Taking notes
   3. Creating new experiments
      

   2. Experiments

   1. Descriptive fields
   2. Building an application
   3. Choosing execution parameters
      
   4. Setting up data transfers
   5. Generating runs
      

   3. Runs

   1. Descriptive fields
   2. Application, execution, and data transfer fields
   3. Runtime parameters
   4. Creating new runs and jobs
      

   4. Jobs

   1. Descriptive fields
   2. Application, execution, and data transfer fields
   3. Submitting jobs
   4. Viewing job data
   5. Updating a job's status
   6. Restarting a job
      

6. Setting user preferences

   1. User information

   2. Project view settings

   3. Interface behavior

   4. Grid services
      

7. Revision history

Acknowledgments

Development of Teuthis has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the State of Illinois through the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

Revised 10/20/05