gemini_shared/00ReadMe.txt
Initiated by Franc Brglez, 2006 Feb 3
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gemini_shared is a web-visible volume 

    http://gemini.csc.ncsu.edu:8080/

Members of geminiGroup can also
  -- mount the volume using Go -> Connect to Server (from a Mac).
  -- access all files and directories on the volume in the terminal window
     under the gemini home page: /Volumes/gemini_shared/.
  -- write/delete files and directories on this volume.

An index.html file will be maintained so that only following directories are
visible (for now): data/, Software/, UserBeds/. Links to these directories will 
also be made under the master home page on zodiac (http://www.cbl.ncsu.edu/).
  
The purpose of top-level directories is as follows:

  Backups4gemini_users/ ... a backed subset of user home directories 
                            from the volume gemini_users.
 
  bin/                  ... directory for executables to be shared among 
                            geminiGroup members.

  data/                 ... home directories for various benchmark classes,
                            many of them them containing isomorphs, typically 
                            structured for performance experiments under 
                            the xBed environment.

  Software/             ... central depository of all software for which 
                            permissions exists for open distribution
                            (this page may also just have links to 
                             relevant SourceForge and similar archives.)
 
  SourceCodeArchives/   ... central depository of all open source
                            code downloaded or originated by members of 
                            geminiGroup.
 
  SubversionDirs/       ... root directory for all projects (code and papers)
                            created by subversion on gemini.

  tmp/                  ... a directory for temporary items that should 
                            routinely moved/removed by members of geminiGroup 
                            who created them.

  TrashSoon/            ... depository of all items to be deleted soon
                            and which require consensus of geminiGroup.

  UserBeds/             ... depository of reproducible and well-tested user 
                            configurations that generated, typically within 
                            the xBed environment, archival results of 
                            performance experiments on solvers and data sets. 
                            Details about these results are typically described 
                            in a tech report or an article.

  xBed/                 ... scripts and solver executables for an environment 
                            that supports design, execution, and archival of 
                            performance experiments with combinatorial solvers 
                            on classes of data sets.