How to install deal.II

How to install deal.II

Yanming Wang

May, 2017

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Deal.II is an open Finite Element Method (FEM) code. For detailed description of the code and tutorials, you can refer to their offical website http://www.dealii.org/. Here we explain how to install it on the Sherlock cluster.

System Requirements

The installation of Deal.II requires cmake 3.2 and up, openmpi/1.10.2/gcc and gcc/4.8.1. They have been pre-installed as modules on the cluster, to load them, you can type the following commands on your terminal.

module load cmake/3.2.2
module load gcc/4.8.1
module load openmpi/1.10.2/gcc

Or you can paste the above three lines into your ~/.bashrc file, and type

source ~/.bashrc

Installation

Assuming you want to install the package in the home directory of group's shared space, you can firstly go to the folder by typing

cd /shared/PI/caiwei/

From there, you can directly clone the package from Github.

git clone https://github.com/dealii/candi

The following two configuration files candi.cfg and dealii.package are required

References

The below webpages would be useful when you are new to using the clusters.

https://www.stanford.edu/group/hpcc/cgi-bin/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

https://www.stanford.edu/group/hpcc/cgi-bin/mediawiki/index.php/I%27m_new_%26_don%27t_know_what_to_do

https://www.stanford.edu/group/hpcc/cgi-bin/mediawiki/index.php/New_to_Cluster_Computing