Cactus Tutorial

This tutorial gives a practical introduction to Cactus, describing its design requirements and their realisation, its architecture and the tools and capabilities it provides. We illustrate how Cactus provides easy access to cutting edge software technologies, such as the GridLab Grid Application Toolkit, HDF5 parallel I/O, adaptive mesh refinement, remote steering and visualisation and interaction with Grid portals.

Attendees will be guided from the initial download of the Cactus software, to the creation and testing of a simple module.

The tutorial will be held in Room 101 of the Frey Building and will run from 9am to 12pm.

Tutorial materials

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