System Specific Notes

Notes for Installing libMesh on specific computers

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Preliminaries, environment, & modules

I run bash and the important bits of my ~/.profile are

module purge
module load git/1.7.7.4
module load comp-intel/2012.0.032
module load mpi-sgi/mpt.2.06rp16
module load boost
module load svn/1.6.11

# tell MPT about our preferred compilers
export MPICC_CC=icc
export MPICXX_CXX=icpc
export MPIF90_F90=ifort

Getting libMesh

Check out libMesh from GitHub:

$ cd /nobackup/$USER
$ mkdir codes
$ cd codes
$ git clone https://github.com/libMesh/libmesh.git
$ cd libmesh

### configure libMesh
Configure libMesh for this platform, building only development and optimized flavors.
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/codes/install --with-methods="devel opt"