Desired Ports for Cactus Simulations

Each Cactus simulations needs open ports for steering, visualisation, monitoring, etc. And here we give a list of requirements. If ports are not available, the simulation will still run, it just won't include interactive features. Some of these features are descibed on the Cactus web pages.

For each Cactus job we need one TCP port for:

• Monitoring (http and/or arbitrary protocol)
• Steering (http and/or arbitrary protocol)
• IsoSurfacer control (arbitrary protocol)
• IsoSurfacer data (arbitrary protocol)
• HDF5 streaming data (arbitrary protocol)
• Portal interaction (http/https)

Allowing for 4 simultaneous simulations this would be 24 ports. We would prefer a block of 24 open ports in the range 7000-7023 (but any other range is fine too).

Ports should ideally be open worldwide - if that's not possible then we would like to access them from the following domains: aei.mpg.de, zib.de, ncsa.uiuc.edu, washu.edu, muni.cz.

Any questions about our requirements for open ports for Cactus simulations should be directed to cactusmaint@cactuscode.org