[aspect-devel] New UK User

[John Naliboff]

Hi Phil,

Indeed, welcome to the community! Echoing Rene's message below, the 
installations on the clusters can at times be a bit tricky. If you do 
have any issues, please email this list and more likely than not someone 
will have encountered the problem before or have a quick suggestion.

If a number of people are likely to use ASPECT on certain clusters, it 
might be worth having the IT folks install Trilinos and p4est as 
system-wide libraries. From there, individual users can install there 
own versions deal.II and ASPECT, although deal.II 8.5 installed 
system-wide would likely be useful as well for most people initially.

You are probably aware of this already, but it is best to stick with the 
GNU compilers.

Thanks for taking the initiative to get these packages installed on the 
UK clusters! I know of few researchers at UCL and Imperial who likely be 
interested in running ASPECT models on the national clusters at some 
point in the next few years.

Cheers,
John

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John Naliboff
Assistant Project Scientist, CIG
Earth & Planetary Sciences Dept., UC Davis

On 04/25/2017 01:27 PM, Rene Gassmoeller wrote:
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> welcome to the community! Yes installing ASPECT on clusters can be a 
> bit tricky, because they often have pretty particular setups for MPI 
> and math libraries. Getting help from the local IT people usually 
> helps a lot in these cases, but we can of course also offer help.
>
> You probably saw the installation instructions in the manual, but I do 
> not know if you had a look into aspect/doc/install already, there is 
> an example installation script for the STAMPEDE cluster in Texas. From 
> taking a look at the ARCHER website it looks like a Cray-XC cluster. I 
> have some experience installing ASPECT on those (one at the HLRN in 
> Berlin, and the Lonestar also in Texas) and I will send you my notes 
> in a separate mail (they are a bit messy). Of course the software 
> setup can be pretty different between those systems so I can not 
> guarantee it works out of the box.
>
> Let us know how it goes,
>
> Rene
>
>
>
> On 04/25/2017 09:05 AM, HERON, PHILIP J. wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I just thought I would send a quick message to introduce myself - I'm 
>> Phil working at Durham University. I am looking to use ASPECT for a 
>> few different projects over the next few years (at least), and try 
>> and set up Durham University as a hub of ASPECT users (teaching and 
>> academic studies).
>>
>> I will be installing ASPECT on a number of clusters over the coming 
>> weeks and I was wondering whether any other UK users have already 
>> done so - in particular for ARCHER or N8?
>>
>> When I install ASPECT on these clusters I will make their process 
>> available if has any difficult points!
>>
>> Talk to you all soon!
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
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