• NTCP Protocol/Service Description (in Word or PDF). Last updated September 16, 2004.
• NTCP Control Plugin (in Word or pdf). Last updated September 16, 2004.
• NtcpHelper Reference (in Word or pdf). Last updated September 16, 2004.

The WSDL definition for NTCP is here.

There are also javadocs for NTCP. These do not contain a lot of text at the moment, but at least they describe the signatures of all the relevant classes. They are also subject to change at any moment. The classes that will be of most interest to most people are org.nees.ntcp.server.util.NtcpHelper (the client API) and org.nees.ntcp.server.backend.LocalControlPlugin (the plugin interface). These are up to date as of the MOST experiement on July 30, 2003.

Papers about NTCP:

• Distributed Hybrid Earthquake Engineering Experiments: Experiences with a Ground-Shaking Grid Application. L. Pearlman, C. Kesselman, S. Gullapalli, B.F. Spencer, Jr., J. Futrelle, K. Ricker, I. Foster, P. Hubbard and C. Severance. To appear in Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, June 2004.
• NTCP: A Grid Service for Remote Control Systems, L. Pearlman, M. D'Arcy, C. Kesselman, P. Plaszczak. Global Grid Forum Workshop on Designing and Building Grid Services. October 2003

Here are some very unofficial NEESgrid safety tips.

The NTCP team consists of Mike D'Arcy, Ravi Madduri, Pawel Plaszczak, and Laura Pearlman. Nabil Deeb also contributed to NTCP in the past.