Page History
- 2012-Nov-13 16:27 adesmet
 - 2010-Jun-23 16:08 kooburat
 - 2010-Jun-08 16:17 kooburat
 - 2010-Jun-08 16:15 kooburat
 - 2010-Jun-04 12:10 kooburat
 
Overview
This wiki provide information about NEOS server migration from ANL to WID/MIR. There are 3 main components that we need to migrate.- NEOS Web Portal and Database
 - NEOS Solvers
 - NEOS Wiki
 
Contact Person
HTCondor 
- Greg Thain
 - Thawan Kooburat
 
ANL 
- Jason Sarich - jason.sarich at gmail.com [NEOS Developer]
 - Sven Leyffer - leyffer at mcs.anl.gov [NEOS Wiki]
 
Action Items
- Obtain license for AMPL, GAMS and Intel Compilers
 - Test running all solvers on our site
 - Download NEOS documentation and change link to local site
 - Setup rsync to transfer job archive
 - Obtain and import NEOS database dump
 
Completed 
- Migrated NEOS Wiki http://neos2.chtc.wisc.edu/NEOS
 - Setup testing NEOS site http://neos1.chtc.wisc.edu/neos/
- Running solvers: HelloNEOS, MINLP, filter
 
 - Installed GAMS and AMPL
 - Use HTCondor to manage NEOS daemons
 
Development 
Related documents
- NEOS worksheet - http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B78BChQNqEaqNGQyYWQwNDgtYTcyMS00NTM2LTg1ZTAtYjk0YTA1ZDE3NmM0&hl=en
 
Migration Plan
NEOS Web Portal Migration
Source 
- Dump NEOS database
 - Tar job archive area
 - Gather all solver XMLs
 
Destination 
- Setup the NEOS server
 - Import NEOS database
 - ? Start NEOS scheduler
 - Register all solver from XMLs
 - Extract job archive area
 - ? Start NEOS web portal
 
NEOS Solvers
Source 
- ?
 
Destination 
- Start NEOS solver daemons
 
NEOS Wiki
Source 
- Dump NEOS Wiki database (or tables with NEOS wiki's prefix)
 - Tar flat files in 'wiki' folder
 
Destination 
- Import NEOS wiki database
 - Restore 'wiki' folder
 
References 
- NEOS server setup - http://neos.mcs.anl.gov/neos/SolverHowTo.html
 - Moving Wiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki
 
