System Specific Notes

Notes for Installing libMesh on specific computers

pleiades.nas.nasa.gov

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 PETSc

Download and build PETSc:

$ cd /nobackup/$USER
$ mkdir -p codes/petsc
$ cd codes/petsc
$ wget http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/release-snapshots/petsc-3.3-p5.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf petsc-3.3-p5.tar.gz
$ mv petsc-3.3-p5 3.3-p5
$ cd 3.3-p5
$ export PETSC_DIR=`pwd`
$ export PETSC_ARCH=icc-12.1.4-mpt-2.06rp16
$ echo $PETSC_DIR
$ echo $PETSC_ARCH

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"