= Describing And Manipulating Experiment Topologies in DETER =

This page describes the model, specification and implementation of DETER's topology description.  A topology is the layout of an experment's physcial or logical environment including the topologies of its control and data networks.

Because DETER experiments are intended to be large - thousands or millions of entities - DETER's topology system must support large scale

 * Specification
 * Operations - realize, initialize, etc.
 * Visualization 

We describe a model that suports these, an API that describes how to use the model and an initial implementation in the Descartes interface.

== Model ==