Neos Migration

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Overview

This wiki provide information about NEOS server migration from ANL to WID/MIR. There are 3 main components that we need to migrate.

1. NEOS Web Portal and Database
2. NEOS Solvers
3. 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

• Neos Development Wiki

Related documents

• NEOS worksheet - http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B78BChQNqEaqNGQyYWQwNDgtYTcyMS00NTM2LTg1ZTAtYjk0YTA1ZDE3NmM0&hl=en

Migration Plan

NEOS Web Portal Migration

Source

1. Dump NEOS database
2. Tar job archive area
3. Gather all solver XMLs

Destination

1. Setup the NEOS server
2. Import NEOS database
3. ? Start NEOS scheduler
4. Register all solver from XMLs
5. Extract job archive area
6. ? Start NEOS web portal

NEOS Solvers

Source

1. ?

Destination

1. Start NEOS solver daemons

NEOS Wiki

Source

1. Dump NEOS Wiki database (or tables with NEOS wiki's prefix)
2. Tar flat files in 'wiki' folder

Destination

1. Import NEOS wiki database
2. 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

This work is supported by NSF under Cooperative Agreement OAC-2030508 as part of the PATh Project. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. Site built using CVSTrac.