General

Internal

Supported Architectures
List of machines on which Cactus is currently supported

Introduction
Brief description of Cactus.

Why Use Cactus?
Explanation of which kinds of applications might want to be using the Cactus framework.

The Computational Toolkit
Description of functionalities provided by the Cactus Computational Toolkit, and the thorns which implement them.

IEEE Computing
Cover story article about Cactus in IEEE Computing.

External

NCSA Datalink
Article about Cactus from the NCSA Datalink newsletter.

TASC Review
Review of Cactus Framework by NASA/TASC

Reference Material

All the information here is for the last stable release of Cactus. Our developers page contains links to information for the development version.

Guides and Manuals

There are three main sources of documentation distributed with Cactus, the User's Guide describing installing and running Cactus as well as Thorn writing, the Maintainer's Guide for Flesh developers and maintainers, and the Thorn Guide describing individual thorns.

These guides are also available from these web pages in a variety of formats.

Flesh and Thorn Information

Interface to a list of arrangements, thorns and their configuration files and READMEs

We are trying out some different self-documenting systems with the source code, not everything will be working yet, so please don't report bugs with this stuff (yet).

• grdoc documentation
• doxygen documentation

FAQs and HOWTOs

See also the full descriptions for the Cactus HOWTOs.

FAQ

CactusRepositories-HOWTO

ComputationalToolKit-HOWTO

Globus-HOWTO

HDF5-HOWTO

Management-HOWTO

OpenDX-HOWTO

PETSc-HOWTO

QuickStart-HOWTO

Visualization-HOWTO

VizLauncher-HOWTO

WebServer-HOWTO

WindowsNT-HOWTO