Physics Info on the World Wide Web [regular posting]
Marcus Speh
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* Lattice Field Theory on the World Wide Web
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FYI, there is a wealth of information on General Physics and Lattice
Field Theory available on the World Wide Web [WWW], a distributed
HyperText system (a network of documents connected by links which can
be activated electronically). Lattice Field Theory aims at [large-scale]
simulations of particle theories on a space-time lattice. Many
methods from condensed matter physics and numerical mathematics (fast
algorithms) are in use in that field. The core documents are hosted
by the freeHEP information server at freehep.scri.fsu.edu, together
with much more useful software for High Energy Physics.
There is a new enlarged section "General Physics" if you aren't
interested in Lattice Field Theory.
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* How to get to the Web
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If you have a WWW browser up and running, try going to
(this brings you to the DESY home page), and look for "User Documents"
in the panel which appears. The precise URL is
http://info.desy.de:80/pub/www/projects/Lattice.html
while the General Physics page (reachable from the Lattice page) is at
http://info.desy.de:80/pub/www/projects/Lattice/Misc.html
If you have no clue what WWW is, you can go over the Internet with
telnet info.cern.ch
which brings you to the WWW Home Page at CERN. You are now using the
simple line mode browser. To move around the Web, enter the number
given after an item. To go to the Physics documents, enter
go http://info.desy.de:80/pub/www/projects/Lattice.html
This is what you should see now:
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* What you will see here
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LATTICE HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Recent changes [1]--Mail additions to this list to <mar...@x4u.desy.de>
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Lattice Field Theory[2]
Software at the FreeHEP[3] information server.
Review[4] texts
Lattice Preprints[5] Preprint bulletin board at the LANL[6]
information server (with index search[7]).
Macros[8] for preprint processing from
ftp.scri.fsu.edu
Lattice '93[9] XI International Symposium on Lattice Field
Theory, October 12-16, 1993, in Dallas, Texas
Searches Look up HEP publications[10], abstracts[11],
addresses[12], or software[13]
Selected Papers[14] A selection of interesting recent papers
Computing[15] Tools, parallel programming, C++ etc. relevant
for Lattice HEP
General Physics[16] Mathematical Physics, News and preprints,
workshops, books etc.
Multigrid Algorithms[17]
Very fast multilevel algorithms for Lattice
Gauge Theory and Numerical Mathematics
[[Now you can continue climbing down the documentation tree by
entering numbers 1-17 and follow your own interests]]
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* More on Browsing the Web
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The by far nicest way of "browsing" through WWW uses the X-Terminal
based tool "NCSA Mosaic". Binaries for many platforms (ready for use)
and sources are available via anonymous FTP from
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in directory Web/xmosaic.
The general FTP repository for browser software is info.cern.ch
(including a hypertext browser/editor for NeXTStep 3.0)
If you cannot go through TELNET, you can still retrieve WWW
documents by e-mail: send a mail to list...@info.cern.ch with a
line in it saying just
HELP
to get back detailed instructions. Your mail system must have a
mail gateway to the internet mail.
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* Contact for Further Information
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Please feel free to contact me for questions, suggestions and further
contributions, or just to tell me whether you found this information
useful in any way.
For questions related to WWW, consult the WWW-FAQ: a draft of
this text will soon be available via anonymous FTP from rtfm.mit.edu
in directory pub/usenet/news.answers/www-faq, or on WWW at URL
http://www.vuw.ac.nz:80/who/Nathan.Torkington/ideas/www-faq.html
The author, Nathan.T...@vuw.ac.nz sends an email copy upon request.
Enjoy.
Aug 30-93 Marcus Speh / E-mail: mar...@x4u.desy.de [internet]
BITnet: i02msp@dhhdesy3
DECnet: 13313::speh
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