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Manuals and Guides

[Manuals and Guides for Development Version]

The Cactus Code is distributed with the LaTeX source for the User's Guide and the Maintainer's Guide. A Thorn Guide can also be generated from the documentation found in each installed thorn, either for all installed thorns, for an entire arrangement, or those used for a particular configuation. Downloadable versions, in different formats, are available on this page.

These Guides are still being developed and written, so please let us know about missing information or inaccuracies.

User's Guide

The User's Guide covers how to install and run Cactus, how to write Thorns (both application and infrastructure), and the interfaces provided by the Cactus Flesh. Note that the User's Guide does not describe any actual Thorns, the relevent Thorn documentation should be consulted instead.

Maintainer's Guide

The Maintainer's Guide documents the Cactus flesh and interfaces, and defines standards, conventions, and programming style. [Note that this Guide is very incomplete at the moment].

Thorn Guide

The Thorn Guide gathers together the documentation contained in each thorn, describing what the thorn does, and listing parameters. (The Thorn Guide distributed from this page contains documentation for all released thorns, however using the gmake <config>-ThornGuide target in your Cactus installation produces a guide for a particular configuration).

Reference Manual

The Reference Manual.

      

Cactus Webmaster Last Modified: Monday, 02-Aug-2004 11:09:17 CDT