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FAQ file for PORTAL - Parallel aRchitecture data
TrAnsfer Library
$Header: /home/wightman/src/CVS/PORTAL/Docs/FAQ,v 1.1 1994/04/21 06:09:32 wightman Exp $
Copyright 1994 by
Argonne National Laboratory
All Rights Reserved
This software belongs to Argonne National Laboratory. It may
be used, copied or made available to anyone for non-commercial
use only. Any commercial use requires explicit permission
from the authors and Argonne National Laboratory.
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PORTAL FAQ
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I. INTRODUCTION
---------------
This document is not that large yet, so the questions are listed in
one group below. If you have any questions or comments, please send
them to John Rowlan (rowlan@mcs.anl.gov) or Brian Wightman
(wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu).
We will try to acknowledge the name and address of those who ask
questions; if not, let me one of us know, and the list will be
changed/updated.
II. GENERAL INFORMATION
-----------------------
Q. What is PORTAL? (authors, general information)
A. PORTAL is a set of libraries that allow multiple programs
computing parts of a large data set to pass this information
to another single program, which will then reconstruct the
larger data structure and process it as desired. Read the
main README file from the PORTAL distribution for more
information.
Q. What does the 'O' in PORTAL stand for?
(gelly@persoft.persoft.com)
A. Well, we aren't really sure. Maybe the name should be
something like PoRTAL. :-) We felt that this program provided
a PORTAL that other programs could squeeze data through and
the acronym kind of stuck.
III. LOCATION OF FILES
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Q. Where can I find the portal system? (authors, general
information)
A. PORTAL and papers relating to it can be obtained by ftp from
info.mcs.anl.gov in the directory /pub/PORTAL. The files
PORTAL.tar.Z and PORTAL.tar.gz are links to the most recent
versions of the program. The files in the papers directory
are papers dealing with the PORTAL system. They are
distributed in dvi, ps, and text format.