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 ndn-atmos
-=========
-
- This software is designed to support ongoing climate model research at Colorado State University,
- Berkeley and other institutes.
-
- This software provides API interface to publish, query and retrieve Climate datasets using NDN.
-
-Dependencies
 ============
 
- The ndn-atmos is built based on several libraries:
- 1. ndn-cxx-0.3.0 (https://github.com/named-data/ndn-cxx.git)
- 2. ChronoSync v0.2 (https://github.com/named-data/ChronoSync.git)
- 3. boost (Minimum required boost version is 1.48.0)
- 4. jsoncpp 1.6.0 (https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp.git)
- 5. mysql 5.6.23 (http://www.mysql.com/)
+### This is pre-release software
+####If you have trouble running it, drop an email to <ndn-sci@netsec.colostate.edu>.
+
+ This software is designed to support ongoing climate model research at Colorado State University,
+ Berkeley and other institutes. Future plan includes porting this tool to suite other scientific
+ community such as High Energy Particle Physics.
+
+ Currently, this software provides an API to publish, query and retrieve scientific datasets using
+ NDN.
+
+Dependencies
+---------------------
+
+**The ndn-atmos is built based on several libraries**
+
+ * boost (Minimum required boost version is 1.48.0)
+ * jsoncpp 1.6.0 (https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp.git)
+ * mysql 5.6.23 (http://www.mysql.com/)
+ * ndn-cxx (https://github.com/named-data/ndn-cxx.git)
+ * ChronoSync (https://github.com/named-data/ChronoSync.git)
+
+**Dependency for tools and translator library**
+
+ * python3
+ * netcdf4-python3
+ * mysql-connector-python3
+
+**The ndn-cxx and ChronoSync need some other prerequisites.**
+
+ *  For OSX, the prerequisites can be installed using Homebrew:
+<pre>
+    brew install boost sqlite3 mysql jsoncpp
+</pre>
+
+ * For Ubuntu, use the command below to install the prerequisites:
+<pre>
+    sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libssl-dev libcrypto++-dev \
+                        libsqlite3-dev libmysqlclient-dev libjsoncpp-dev \
+                        protobuf-compiler libprotobuf-dev netcdf4-python \
+                        python3-mysql.connector
+</pre>
+ * For Fedora, use the command below to install the prerequisites:
+<pre>
+    sudo yum install boost-devel openssl-devel cryptopp-devel sqlite3x-devel \
+                    mysql-devel jsoncpp-devel protobuf-compiler protobuf-devel \
+                    netcdf4-python3 mysql-connector-python3
+</pre>
+
+
+
+Installing ndn-cxx
+---------------------
+
+* Download ndn-cxx source code. Use the link below for ndn-cxx code:
+<pre>
+  git clone https://github.com/named-data/ndn-cxx.git
+  cd ndn-cxx
+  git checkout -b shared_library 7ed294302beee4979e97ff338dee0eb3eef51142
+</pre>
+
+* In library folder, build from the source code
+<pre>
+  ./waf configure --disable-static --enable-shared
+  ./waf
+  ./waf install
+</pre>
+
+Installing ChronoSync
+---------------------
+
+* Download ChronoSync source code. Use the link below for the ChronoSync code:
+<pre>
+  git clone https://github.com/named-data/ChronoSync.git
+  cd ChronoSync
+</pre>
+
+* Build from the source code
+<pre>
+  ./waf configure
+  ./waf
+  ./waf install
+</pre>
+
+
+Installing ndn-atmos
+---------------------
+
+Follow the steps below to compile and install ndn-atmos:
+
+* Download the ndn-atmos source code. Use the command below:
+<pre>
+  git clone https://github.com/named-data/ndn-atmos.git
+  cd ndn-atmos
+</pre>
+
+* Build ndn-atmos in the project folder
+<pre>
+  ./waf configure
+  ./waf
+  ./waf install
+</pre>
+
+* To test ndn-atmos, please use the steps below:
+<pre>
+  ./waf configure --with-tests
+  ./waf
+  ./build/catalog/unit-tests
+</pre>
+
+* Note that you may need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the path where the ndn-cxx shared
+library is installed. For example:
+<pre>
+  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+  ldconfig
+</pre>
+
+
+Running ndn-atmos
+--------------------------
+
+Install translator library
+---------------------------
+1. For the translator, ndn_cmmap_translator library is required to be in PYTHONPATH
+<pre>
+     export PYTHONPATH="full path to /ndn-atmos/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators":$PYTHONPATH
+</pre>
+
+
+Initializing Database
+---------------------
+* Create a database using standard mysql tool.
+* You also need to create a user and set a password to connect to the database the database.
+* Note that you will need to have actual CMIP5 data to run the tool.
+* Run
+<pre>
+$ python3 insert_names.py
+</pre>
+* Input full path to the filename and config file to translate
+* A CMIP5 config file is located under
+<pre> /ndn-atmos/lib/ndn_cmmap_translators/etc/cmip5/cmip5.conf </pre>
+* This will create a table named cmip5 and insert the names into the table
+
+
+Starting NFD
+------------
+NFD is the NDN forwarding daemon.
+
+* Download NFD source code. Use the link below for the NFD code:
+<pre>
+  git clone https://github.com/named-data/NFD.git
+  cd NFD
+  git checkout NFD-0.3.2
+  git submodule init && git submodule update
+</pre>
+
+* Build NFD
+<pre>
+  ./waf configure
+  ./waf
+  ./waf install
+</pre>
+
+* Run NFD
+<pre>
+    nfd-start
+</pre>
+
+* Note that you may need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the path where the ndn-cxx shared
+library is installed. For example:
+<pre>
+  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+  ldconfig
+</pre>
+
+
+Launching atmos-catalog
+-----------------------
+
+* Make sure database is initialized and running
+
+* Create catalog configuration file
+<pre>
+    cp /usr/local/etc/ndn-atmos/catalog.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/ndn-atmos/catalog.conf
+</pre>
+
+* Edit the configuration file /usr/local/etc/ndn-atmos/catalog.conf. Modify the database parameters
+in both the queryAdapter and publishAdapter sections.
+* Note that the database parameters in these two sections may be different to provide different
+privileges.
+
+
+* Run ndn-atmos
+<pre>
+    atmos-catalog
+</pre>
+
+
+Starting front end
+------------------
+
+* Open the client folder in ndn-atmos
+
+* Checkout the ndn-js in the client folder. Use the link blow:
+<pre>
+  git clone http://github.com/named-data/ndn-js.git
+  cd ndn-js
+  git checkout v0.8.1 (or the latest version)
+</pre>
+
+* Start python simple server in the client folder (ndn-atmos/client)
+<pre>
+  python -m SimpleHTTPServer
+</pre>
+
+* Open project query page in a web browser
+<pre>
+     http://localhost:8000/query/query.html
+</pre>