Mac:
Double
click on ElVisLauncher.jar to get started.
Linux:
From
a command line, enter: java -jar
ElVisLauncher.jar
... or, if you're using
Internet Explorer on Windows, download the launcher in a zip
file here.
Then extract ElVisLauncher.jar
from the zip file and double click on it to run it.
This first time you run the launcher it
will create an Elvis folder in your home folder.
The launcher will install the software and run
ElVis. Whenever you want to run ElVis again, just
double click on ElVisLauncher.jar and it will run ElVis
with the additional memory you specified.
Files in the Elvis
directory:
settings.props - ElVis stores some of
your most recent settings for some operations in this
file.
statuslog_N where N varies from 0 to
9 - Some session and debugging information is stored in
this file. A new file is written each time you
exit. The file numbers are recycled so you can
have log files for the last 10 times that you ran the
program.
xml - template files that accompany
netcdf files that have been downloaded from URLs.
data directory - netcdf files that
have been downloaded from URLs.
ElVis Module
Users within PPPL can run ElVis directly on the portal
cluster or in a NoMachine nx client connected to
nx.pppl.gov. An elvis module is available for
setting up your environment. Log in to portal and
from the command line, enter: