The Newcomer's ITM platform User Guide
Welcome to the EFDA-ITM Project and thank you for choosing to cooperate!
This guide is intended for a new user to his/her first access to ITM platform and therefore provides the basic instructions for a code developer, which might also serve as reference for everyday use to the expert user. Special cases or instructions for curious users or for those who want to develop infrastructure tools can be found on the documents linked.
Getting Started
If you have not yet done it, please contact the ITM Contact Person at your Research Unit.
To get an access to the ITM web Site Intranet (Portal), with news about every project, tool and code documentation, specific mail lists and the collaborative work instruments, ask a login and a password to your Project Leader.
To get an access to Gateway, EFDA-ITM dedicated Linux cluster for code developing, download, fill and sign the Gateway User Agreement and send it by fax to the Task Force Leader. The GUA was written as a cooperation among the Gateway User Board (composed by a leader from every project representing his/her users, determines the policy for Gateway administration), EURATOM legal office and the HRU's and protect the intellectual property of your work as well as it allows you to use software under license installed in Gateway (ITM policy still remains completely toward open source). Without signing the GUA it is not possible to have access to Gateway and to most of information on these pages. The TFL will contact your representative inside GUB authorising him/her to give you a login and a password and he/she will communicate it to you by subscribing you to the mail list of your project (that makes no traffic: one mail every month on the average).
Let's work!
Having a look to the iter a code must follow to finally become a part of the integrated tokamak modeling we can summarise the simplest activities you can do in ITM platform as:
code porting and developing: for this you need to know the Gateway Development Environment
specific data visualisation and creation of a simulation -> beside the usual visualisation libraries, installed on Gateway, ISIP has developed the specific tool ISE
validation of a code against other codes and experimental data -> to correctly exchange data all the codes must have the same I/O structure and format -> Data Structure
exchanging data between a code and another -> again Data Structure
code developing and maintenance with your colleagues maybe living elsewhere -> gforge and svn
code preparation to be delivered to other users -> gforge
How to use Gateway
Information about Gateway can be gather at the Gateway web site where you can also download the Gateway User Guide.
You can access Gateway via ssh and sftp in the standard way.
You can enter it via NX from Nomachine, a remote desktop application which allows you to use features as graphical interfaces to applications (indispensable to user most of the ISIP tools) or graphical output from postprocessing software or multi terminals.... To do this follow this Euforia instructions, namely:
-get the NX client for your local OS from NX download page and install it
-start NX Connection Wizard and follow the configuration steps
last update: 2012-07-18 by coster