Dear Frank, and group,
The current version of the Einstein Toolkit VM (along with instructions and bug notes) is located at http://cct.lsu.edu/~dcastl2. It's LZMA-compressed (my pipelines to the file server are unfortunately short-lived).
Regards,
Dennis Castleberry dcastl2@tigers.lsu.edu
Frank, and group,
As far as the visualization tools go, I've installed:
- xgraph - ygraph - gnuplot - matplotlib
There was once a Linux installer for Vish on the sciviz.cct.lsu.edu site, but it's not there anymore. If it's one of the tools we intend to demonstrate I'd be happy to compile it from source after my midterm today. If there are any others, let me know and I'll add them.
There's one more thing... all the thorns compiled with either OpenMPI or MPICH2, but the linker fails at the very end with many undefined references to functions (some of them HDF5)... maybe there are options to link with external libraries that I haven't set? No doubt an experienced user could spot the root of the problem more easily than I.
Regards,
Dennis Castleberry dcastl2@tigers.lsu.edu
Hello Dennis,
As far as the visualization tools go, I've installed:
- xgraph
- ygraph
- gnuplot
- matplotlib
Is there a well defined procedure of how to ask to have more sofware installed ? I know I will need VisIt for example. Do I just ask for it or install it myself, then send you the commands I entered (captured from .bash_history)?
There was once a Linux installer for Vish on the sciviz.cct.lsu.edu site, but it's not there anymore. If it's one of the tools we intend to demonstrate I'd be happy to compile it from source after my midterm today. If there are any others, let me know and I'll add them.
There's one more thing... all the thorns compiled with either OpenMPI or MPICH2, but the linker fails at the very end with many undefined references to functions (some of them HDF5)... maybe there are options to link with external libraries that I haven't set? No doubt an experienced user could spot the root of the problem more easily than I.
Most likely it was looking for C++ or Fortran HDF5 bindings which are not installed by the usual systems. Also I think Debian now puts hdf5 in a weird spot so that Cactus does not find all of it (or not the Fortran .mod file or some such thing).
Yours, Roland
Hello all,
Is there a well defined procedure of how to ask to have more sofware installed ? I know I will need VisIt for example. Do I just ask for it or install it myself, then send you the commands I entered (captured from .bash_history)?
Never mind. This is already explained on the web page Dennis is pointing to. I'll send a script.
Yours, Roland
Hello all,
I hate to ask this but, what is the username/password for the VM?
Yours, Roland
Hello Dennis, all,
There's one more thing... all the thorns compiled with either OpenMPI or MPICH2, but the linker fails at the very end with many undefined references to functions (some of them HDF5)... maybe there are options to link with external libraries that I haven't set? No doubt an experienced user could spot the root of the problem more easily than I.
To compile I did a: su -c 'apt-get install libatlas-dev libatlas-base-dev' then modified simfactory/mdb/machines/etk-os.etk.org.ini to match the attached file (essentially switching from generic.cfg to debian-lenny-gcc.cfg). Then did a simfactory/bin/sim build --clean --reconfig --thornlist=thornlists/einsteintoolkit.th
After some hours of compilation it linked fine.
I also found it helpful to install network-manager su -c 'apt-get install network-manager' to bring the network online.
I also installed VisIt (as etk-user) via:
cd $HOME/Downloads wget http://portal.nersc.gov/svn/visit/trunk/releases/2.4.2/visit2_4_2.linux-rhel... tar xf visit2_4_2.linux-rhel5.tar.gz -C $HOME echo 'PATH=$PATH:$HOME/visit2_4_2.linux-intel/bin' >~/.bashrc
as well as the VisIt Carpet reader:
cd $HOME/Downloads su -c 'apt-get install cmake' svn co https://svn.cactuscode.org/VizTools/CarpetHDF5/trunk/ CarpetHDF5 ./install # in the CMake tab enter into the CXXFLAGS field: -I/home/etk-user/visit2_4_2.linux-intel/2.4.2/linux-intel/include/hdf5/include # and into the LDFLAGS field -L/home/etk-user/visit2_4_2.linux-intel/2.4.2/linux-intel/lib # the save and close the window it should compile and create files in $HOME/.visit (which are the only required ones, the source can be deleted afterwards).
You probably do not want to turn on 3d acceleration if you use an Intel based graphics card since (at least for me) the VisIt viewer dies uppon startup when one tries to use 3D acceleration with Intel graphics.
Yours, Roland
Hello Dennis, all,
further steps:
mkdir /home/etk-user/simulations # NB: lowercase "s"
The used Fluxbox style "LemonSpace" makes the window titles in the taskbar essentially unreadable on my laptop screen since they are white on pale orange. Most other styles are readable. It might be nice to change the style if others have the same problem.
There is no GUI editor installed (xedit does not count :-) ) and we probably don't want to teach all new user how to use vim (though I am all for it).
A nice editor without too much baggage seems to be scite (2MB extra disk space).
Unless of course we want to use Eclipse/Mojave (which at least I have never used before).
Yours, Roland
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:49:11PM -0700, Roland Haas wrote:
There is no GUI editor installed (xedit does not count :-) ) and we probably don't want to teach all new user how to use vim (though I am all for it).
While I agree that we probably should have some gui editors, what makes gui important? An easy-to-use editor like nano should be fine, shouldn't it? A gui itself doesn't make it easier to use an editor, otherwise everyone would use gvim. :)
Are there other 'popular' small editors which we should provide?
Frank
Dear group,
I have updated the VM. The new copy is available at http://cct.lsu.edu/~dcastl2. I had wanted to use rsync this time, but couldn't get to it. I plan to configure anonymous rsync today.
Regards,
Dennis Castleberry dcastl2@tigers.lsu.edu
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Frank Loeffler knarf@cct.lsu.edu wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:49:11PM -0700, Roland Haas wrote:
There is no GUI editor installed (xedit does not count :-) ) and we probably don't want to teach all new user how to use vim (though I am all for it).
While I agree that we probably should have some gui editors, what makes gui important? An easy-to-use editor like nano should be fine, shouldn't it? A gui itself doesn't make it easier to use an editor, otherwise everyone would use gvim. :)
Are there other 'popular' small editors which we should provide?
Frank
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