NEOS Server 4.0 Administrative Guide

The NEOS Server 4.0 provides a general Internet-based client/server as a link between users and software applications. The administrative guide covers the fundamental principles behind the operation of the NEOS Server, installation and trouble-shooting of the Server software, and implementation details of potential interest to a NEOS Server administrator. The guide also discusses making new software applications available through the Server, including areas of concern to remote solver administrators such as maintaining security, providing usage instructions, and enforcing reasonable restrictions on jobs. The administrative guide is intended both as an introduction to the NEOS Server and as a reference for use when running the Server. ∗This work was supported by the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division subprogram of the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract W-31-109-Eng-38, and by the National Science Foundation (Challenges in Computational Science) grant CDA-9726385 and (Information Technology Research) grant CCR-0082807. †Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Department, Northwestern University, and Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439; e-mail: [email protected]