AMNS Data Providers Documentation

Doxygen generated documentation

So far the only documentation is the doxygen documentation for the AMNS Data Provider routines (follow the links to Files|File List|src/amns_driver.f90).

Tips/Comments

Here are some comments about the data provider driver:

• At the time of writing, the only data provided were atomic rate coefficients derived from ADAS and nuclear cross-sections for fusion.
• The relevant code can be found in the amnsproto project in GFORGE in branches/amns_db/src, with the driver amns_driver.F90
• Compilation is done by typing make in branches/amns_db
• The code can then be run by typing obj/amns_driver
• The backend can be chosen by specifying one of "mdsplus", "hdf5" or "ascii" on the command line when running obj/amns_driver (default is "mdsplus").
• The amns_driver program is driven by the file amns_driver.data whose format is described in the file amns_driver.format.

• To maintain the version information, a MySQL database was used for 4.09a and 4.09b. The database is updated by amns_driver when new data is written, and the database is used by the user interface routines to determine which "run" (version) number should be used for each "shot" (species). From 4.10a onwards, the version data is stored in an AMNS CPO under shot 0, run 1.

  The current status of this database can be queried from the Gateway by doing (note that this is only for pre-4.10a versions):

  mysql -h solps-mdsplus.aug.ipp.mpg.de -u amnsro -p amns
  amnsro
  select * from versions;
  quit;

  (i.e. accessing the "amns" database on the server "solps-mdsplus.aug.ipp.mpg.de" as user "amnsro"; the password is "amnsro").

For New AMNS Data Providers

• If you haven't already done so, you will need to join the project "amnsproto", following the instructions contained here. There will be a delay until the project manager adds you to the project, and gforge updates its tables.
• You will need to create your private user database

  $ITMSCRIPTDIR/create_user_itm_dir amns 4.10b

  replacing the 4.10b with the appropriate version.
• Check out the AMNSPROTO repository

  svn co https://gforge6.eufus.eu/svn/amnsproto

  and then follow the instructions in the top level README