How to install deal.II
How to install deal.II
Yanming Wang
May, 2017
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
Now you should have a folder called candi. The next step is to go into the folder and replace the following two configuration files candi.cfg and dealii.package.
cd /shared/PI/caiwei/candi wget -O candi.cfg http://micro.stanford.edu/mediawiki/images/1/1e/Candi.cfg.txt cd /shared/PI/caiwei/candi/deal.II-toolchain/packages
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/New_to_Cluster_Computing