Ninf-G Manual

This document is intended to provide the reader with a discussion of how to use the different components of the Ninf-G system and to serve as a reference manual for the commands and functions made available by Ninf-G. Although we offer a brief discussion of the Ninf-G System, this document is not necessarily intended to provide details about the Ninf-G components. The reader should refer to the Documentation section of the Ninf-G homepage ( http://ninf.apgrid.org/) for more appropriate discussion of the Ninf-G system. The reader is expected to have some level of familiarity with programming and at least one programming languages, preferably the C language. Rudimentary knowledge of the UNIX operating system environment, the make utility, and the Globus toolkit will prove handy if installing and configuring Ninf-G for the UNIX environment.

Organization of this document

• Introduction
  This section provides a general overview of GridRPC and the Ninf-G system.
• Installation Manual
  This section provide installation instructions for the Ninf-G software. Currently
• The Administrator's Manual
  This section is aimed at the user who will be installing, managing the Ninf-G system, and providing their remote numerical libraries. It gives instructions of how to register numerical libraries with the Ninf-G system.
• The User's Manual
  This section is aimed at the Ninf-G usesr who is only interested in utilizing the client interfaces. It provides a discussion of the available client interfaces.
• Appendices
  These appendices provides reference manuals for the C client interfaces, and an overview of the Ninf-G IDL.

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