# SAWs - Scientific Application Webserver

SAWs is a software library that uses threads, sockets, and locks to
allow a client program to read (and change when desired) variables in
the server (PETSc) application).

## Requirements and installation of the SAWs

One can simply add `--download-saws` to the arguments for `./configure` when configuring PETSc.

Alternately, a current version of SAWs is available from `https://bitbucket.org/saws/saws`
and one can add the flag `--with-saws-dir=/directorywhereamsisinstalled`.

## Usage from PETSc

To examine options in a browser, run PETSc applications with
`-saws_view saws -ts_view_pre saws` and point your brower to
`http://localhost:8080` or, if you are running your application on a
different machine, pass the name of that machine to the browser.
