diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/api/aqlj/server/APIClientThread.java b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/api/aqlj/server/APIClientThread.java
index dee3ee0..7f75e65 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/api/aqlj/server/APIClientThread.java
+++ b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/api/aqlj/server/APIClientThread.java
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
  */
 package edu.uci.ics.asterix.api.aqlj.server;
 
-import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.io.StringReader;
@@ -38,9 +37,8 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.asterix.aql.parser.AQLParser;
 import edu.uci.ics.asterix.aql.parser.ParseException;
 import edu.uci.ics.asterix.common.exceptions.AsterixException;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.hyracks.bootstrap.AsterixNodeState;
+import edu.uci.ics.asterix.hyracks.bootstrap.CCBootstrapImpl;
 import edu.uci.ics.asterix.metadata.MetadataManager;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.metadata.api.IAsterixStateProxy;
 import edu.uci.ics.asterix.metadata.bootstrap.AsterixProperties;
 import edu.uci.ics.asterix.metadata.declared.AqlCompiledMetadataDeclarations;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.algebricks.common.exceptions.AlgebricksException;
@@ -67,9 +65,9 @@
     private final AQLJStream clientStream;
     private final String outputFilePath;
     private final String outputNodeName;
-    private final String outputNodeIP;
     private final String binaryOutputClause;
 
+    private String outputNodeIP;
     private AQLJStream nodeDataServerStream;
     private int nodeDataServerPort;
     private String dataverse;
@@ -79,42 +77,28 @@
         this.hcc = hcc;
         clientStream = new AQLJStream(clientSocket);
         this.appContext = appCtx;
+        outputNodeName = AsterixProperties.INSTANCE.getMetadataNodeName();
+        outputFilePath = AsterixProperties.INSTANCE.getOutputDir() + System.currentTimeMillis() + ".adm";
 
-        // get the name of the first node controller that we find
-        // all query results will be written to this node
         Map<String, Set<String>> nodeNameMap = new HashMap<String, Set<String>>();
         try {
             this.appContext.getCCContext().getIPAddressNodeMap(nodeNameMap);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             throw new IOException(" unable to obtain IP address node map", e);
         }
-        outputNodeIP = (String) nodeNameMap.keySet().toArray()[0];
-        outputNodeName = (String) nodeNameMap.get(outputNodeIP).toArray()[0];
-
-        // get the port of the node data server that is running on the first nc
-        IAsterixStateProxy proxy = (IAsterixStateProxy) appCtx.getDistributedState();
-        nodeDataServerPort = ((AsterixNodeState) proxy.getAsterixNodeState(outputNodeName)).getAPINodeDataServerPort();
-        nodeDataServerStream = null;
-
-        // write the data into the output stores directory of the nc
-        // if output stores are unavailable (could they ever be?), then write to
-        // tmpdir which can be overridden
-        // Also, use milliseconds in path name of output file to differentiate
-        // queries
-        Map<String, String[]> storesMap = AsterixProperties.INSTANCE.getStores();
-        String[] outputStores = storesMap.get(outputNodeName);
-        if (outputStores.length > 0) {
-            outputFilePath = outputStores[0] + System.currentTimeMillis() + ".adm";
-        } else {
-            outputFilePath = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") + File.pathSeparator + System.currentTimeMillis()
-                    + ".adm";
+        for (String ip : nodeNameMap.keySet()) {
+            Set<String> nodeNames = nodeNameMap.get(ip);
+            if (nodeNames.contains(outputNodeName)) {
+                outputNodeIP = ip;
+                break;
+            }
         }
 
+        nodeDataServerPort = CCBootstrapImpl.DEFAULT_API_NODEDATA_SERVER_PORT;
+        nodeDataServerStream = null;
+
         // the "write output..." clause is inserted into incoming AQL statements
-        binaryOutputClause = "write output to "
-                + outputNodeName
-                + ":\""
-                + outputFilePath
+        binaryOutputClause = "write output to " + outputNodeName + ":\"" + outputFilePath
                 + "\" using \"edu.uci.ics.hyracks.algebricks.runtime.writers.SerializedDataWriterFactory\";";
 
     }
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/AsterixNodeState.java b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/AsterixNodeState.java
deleted file mode 100644
index dbf1625..0000000
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/AsterixNodeState.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2009-2011 by The Regents of the University of California
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * you may obtain a copy of the License from
- * 
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- * 
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package edu.uci.ics.asterix.hyracks.bootstrap;
-
-import java.io.Serializable;
-
-public class AsterixNodeState implements Serializable {
-
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-
-    private int apiNodeDataServerPort;
-
-    public int getAPINodeDataServerPort() {
-        return apiNodeDataServerPort;
-    }
-
-    public void setAPINodeDataServerPort(int port) {
-        this.apiNodeDataServerPort = port;
-    }
-
-}
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/CCBootstrapImpl.java b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/CCBootstrapImpl.java
index ccba498..fcd50b5 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/CCBootstrapImpl.java
+++ b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/CCBootstrapImpl.java
@@ -14,11 +14,6 @@
  */
 package edu.uci.ics.asterix.hyracks.bootstrap;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
@@ -43,7 +38,7 @@
     private static final int DEFAULT_WEB_SERVER_PORT = 19001;
 
     public static final int DEFAULT_API_SERVER_PORT = 14600;
-    private static final int DEFAULT_API_NODEDATA_SERVER_PORT = 14601;
+    public static final int DEFAULT_API_NODEDATA_SERVER_PORT = 14601;
 
     private Server webServer;
     private static IAsterixStateProxy proxy;
@@ -79,7 +74,7 @@
             LOGGER.info("Stopping Asterix cluster controller");
         }
         AsterixStateProxy.unregisterRemoteObject();
-        
+
         webServer.stop();
         apiServer.shutdown();
     }
@@ -104,25 +99,6 @@
     }
 
     private void setupAPIServer() throws Exception {
-        // set the APINodeDataServer ports
-        int startPort = DEFAULT_API_NODEDATA_SERVER_PORT;
-        Map<String, Set<String>> nodeNameMap = new HashMap<String, Set<String>>();
-        try {
-            appCtx.getCCContext().getIPAddressNodeMap(nodeNameMap);
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw new IOException("Unable to obtain IP address node map", e);
-        }
-
-        for (Map.Entry<String, Set<String>> entry : nodeNameMap.entrySet()) {
-            Set<String> nodeNames = entry.getValue();
-            Iterator<String> it = nodeNames.iterator();
-            while (it.hasNext()) {
-                AsterixNodeState ns = new AsterixNodeState();
-                ns.setAPINodeDataServerPort(startPort++);
-                proxy.setAsterixNodeState(it.next(), ns);
-            }
-        }
-
         apiServer = new ThreadedServer(DEFAULT_API_SERVER_PORT, new APIClientThreadFactory(appCtx));
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/NCBootstrapImpl.java b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/NCBootstrapImpl.java
index b1e7481..24cf3a8 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/NCBootstrapImpl.java
+++ b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/NCBootstrapImpl.java
@@ -65,15 +65,14 @@
             MetadataManager.INSTANCE.init();
             MetadataBootstrap.startUniverse(proxy.getAsterixProperties(), ncApplicationContext);
 
+            // Start a sub-component for the API server. This server is only connected to by the 
+            // API server that lives on the CC and never by a client wishing to execute AQL.
+            // TODO: The API sub-system will change dramatically in the future and this code will go away, 
+            // but leave it for now.
+            apiNodeDataServer = new ThreadedServer(CCBootstrapImpl.DEFAULT_API_NODEDATA_SERVER_PORT,
+                    new NodeDataClientThreadFactory());
+            apiNodeDataServer.start();
         }
-
-        // Start a sub-component for the API server. This server is only connected to by the 
-        // API server that lives on the CC and never by a client wishing to execute AQL.
-        // TODO: The API sub-system will change dramatically in the future and this code will go away, 
-        // but leave it for now.
-        AsterixNodeState ns = (AsterixNodeState) proxy.getAsterixNodeState(nodeId);
-        apiNodeDataServer = new ThreadedServer(ns.getAPINodeDataServerPort(), new NodeDataClientThreadFactory());
-        apiNodeDataServer.start();
     }
 
     public void registerRemoteMetadataNode(IAsterixStateProxy proxy) throws RemoteException {
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/asterix-idefix.properties b/asterix-app/src/main/resources/asterix-idefix.properties
deleted file mode 100755
index 278bcb4..0000000
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/asterix-idefix.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-nc1.stores=/home/nicnic/Work/Asterix/tests/tpch/nc1data
-nc2.stores=/home/nicnic/Work/Asterix/tests/tpch/nc2data
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/asterix-peach.properties b/asterix-app/src/main/resources/asterix-peach.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 20a6eeb..0000000
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/asterix-peach.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-nc1.stores=/tmp/nc1/
-nc2.stores=/tmp/nc2/
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/asterix-rainbow.properties b/asterix-app/src/main/resources/asterix-rainbow.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index d5febe4..0000000
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/asterix-rainbow.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-rainbow-01.stores=/data/onose/rainbow-01/
-rainbow-02.stores=/data/onose/rainbow-02/
-rainbow-03.stores=/data/onose/rainbow-03/
-rainbow-04.stores=/data/onose/rainbow-04/
-rainbow-05.stores=/data/onose/rainbow-05/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/asterix.properties b/asterix-app/src/main/resources/asterix.properties
deleted file mode 100755
index 78cd2b9..0000000
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/asterix.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-asterix-001.stores=/mnt/data/sda/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdb/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdc/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdd/space/onose
-asterix-002.stores=/mnt/data/sda/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdb/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdc/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdd/space/onose
-asterix-003.stores=/mnt/data/sda/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdb/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdc/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdd/space/onose
-asterix-004.stores=/mnt/data/sda/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdb/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdc/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdd/space/onose
-asterix-005.stores=/mnt/data/sda/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdb/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdc/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdd/space/onose
-asterix-006.stores=/mnt/data/sda/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdb/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdc/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdd/space/onose
-asterix-007.stores=/mnt/data/sda/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdb/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdc/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdd/space/onose
-asterix-008.stores=/mnt/data/sda/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdb/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdc/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdd/space/onose
-asterix-009.stores=/mnt/data/sda/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdb/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdc/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdd/space/onose
-asterix-010.stores=/mnt/data/sda/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdb/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdc/space/onose,/mnt/data/sdd/space/onose
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/hyracks-initdb-deployment.properties b/asterix-app/src/main/resources/hyracks-initdb-deployment.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index e40db59..0000000
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/hyracks-initdb-deployment.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-cc.bootstrap.class=edu.uci.ics.initdb.hyracks.bootstrap.CCBootstrapImpl
-nc.bootstrap.class=edu.uci.ics.initdb.hyracks.bootstrap.NCBootstrapImpl
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/idefix-4nc.properties b/asterix-app/src/main/resources/idefix-4nc.properties
deleted file mode 100755
index 747eb41..0000000
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/idefix-4nc.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-nc1.stores=/home/nicnic/Work/Asterix/tests/tpch/nc1data
-nc2.stores=/home/nicnic/Work/Asterix/tests/tpch/nc2data
-nc3.stores=/home/nicnic/Work/Asterix/tests/tpch/nc3data
-nc4.stores=/home/nicnic/Work/Asterix/tests/tpch/nc4data
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/test.properties b/asterix-app/src/main/resources/test.properties
index 01a593b..4947dbf 100755
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/test.properties
+++ b/asterix-app/src/main/resources/test.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 MetadataNode=nc1
 NewUniverse=true
-nc1.stores=/tmp/nc1data/
-nc2.stores=/tmp/nc2data/
+nc1.stores=nc1data
+nc2.stores=nc2data
 OutputDir=/tmp/asterix_output/
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/testnc1.properties b/asterix-app/src/main/resources/testnc1.properties
deleted file mode 100755
index c0ad3de..0000000
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/resources/testnc1.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-nc1.stores=nc1data