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Revision 19 as of 2013-08-30 14:54:08

location: Installation

Download and installation

Contents

  1. Download and installation
    1. Download BDF package
    2. System requirements
    3. Configure and compile BDF package
    4. Examples of some typical installations
  2. Set system variables of BDF package

Download BDF package

We use subversion to manage BDF package. You can download BDF with subversion command. 

 $svn co svn+ssh://user@10.105.153.100/export/svnroot/gbdf/trunck/0.5.dev

System requirements

In principle, BDF support all Unix-like platforms. However, we strongly propose you to use BDF at Linux platform together Intel Fortran and C compiler because BDF package is developed and thoroughly tested on such platforms. System requirements of BDF is summarized as following lines: 

 OS:                              Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, Unix
 Compiler:                    Fortran 90 compiler such as Intel, gfortran, g95
 Support softwares:      Python, make
 Parallel environments: MPI

Configure and compile BDF package

Several steps are needed to install BDF package.

  1. Set fortran and C compiler.
    • If you use bash shell, you can set fortran and c compiler: 
        $export FC=ifort
  $export CC=gcc
    • Tips: If you ignored this step, the configure script will pick up the gfortran and gcc compiler as default.
  2. Set blas and lapack library.
    • For flaxibality reason, we ask users to set blas and lapack libraries. 
        $export MATHLIB="-LMathLibDir -llapackname -lblasname"
  3. Configure BDF package.
    • After setting compiler and mathematic library. You can configure BDF by command configure in BDF root directory. 
        $./configure
      Configure support several parameters. 
        --enable-debug=yes[no]   Compile BDF in debug mode.
  --enable-i8=yes[no]      Compile BDF with 64 bit integrals.
  --enable-openmp=yes[no]  Compile BDF with OpenMP supporting.
  4. Compile BDF package. 
    •   $make

Examples of some typical installations

  1. A 64bit machine with intel compiler and MKL library. 
      $export FC=ifort
  $export CC=gcc
  $export MATHLIB="-lmkl_intel_ilp64 -lmkl_sequential -lmkl_core -lpthread"
  $./configure --enabale-i8=yes --enable-openmp=yes
  $make
  2. A Mac laptop with gfortran, gcc and user compiled lapack and blas library 
      $export FC=gfortran 
  $export CC=gcc 
  $export MATHILIB="-L/Users/mike/mathlib -lblas -llapack" 
  $./configure --enabale-i8=yes --enable-openmp=yes 
  $make

Set system variables of BDF package