How To Participate

Prepare a Model for this Project's Model Wiki

The following is a basic listing of steps to prepare models for submission to this site: (I) Devise a hypothesis; figure out if it can be expressed in quantitative, testable terms If so, can equations be written to express the hypothesis more or less exactly? (II) If equations can be written to express your hypothesis, is the quantitative hypothesis used to provide model solutions that represent the data? If so, the model and data analysis can be published.

XSIM (Version 3.x) Installation Guide

1. Availability on various UNIX platforms

The XSIM full distribution includes packages for four popular UNIX platforms: SunOS-4 and Solaris (SunOS-5) for sparc, IRIX for SGI, and Linux for Intel-PC (glibc version).

2. License (free for non-commercial use)

3. What you get in the XSIM distribution package

The XSIM distribution package contains the files for:

Standard installation:

XSIM Libnsr Installation Instructions

1. Downdoad one of these files:
   
	NSRlibraries.bin.SOLARIS.tar.Z
	NSRlibraries.bin.SUNOS.tar.Z
	NSRlibraries.bin.IRIX.tar.Z
	NSRlibraries.bin.LINUX.tar.Z

2. Unpack the NSR library package:

	zcat NSRlibraries.bin.PLATFORM.tar.Z | tar xvf -

   Note: replace PLATFORM above with SOLARIS, SUNOS, IRIX or LINUX.

3. Change directory to libnsr:

   	cd libnsr

   Follow the instructions in (3a) or (3b).

NSR Model Database Information

This page contains information relavant for (on site) internal use.

Adding new model to NSR database and website:

Below lists the steps to adding a new model to the NSR model database.
Note: Once your model has been assigned a number, DO NOT delete the modelnumber.txt from your model directory. You can change the name and any other aspect of the model but NOT the model number.