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