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Installing mef90 and vDef

vDef is build on top of mef90, a parallel unstructured finite element library and relies heavily on a patched version of petsc-3.3. Building vDef requires:

  • C and fortran compilers
  • MPI
  • git, mercurial, python3, cmake are required in order to build PETSc

Additionally, some utilities requires the following python modules:

  • numpy
  • matplotlib
  • JSON and argparse

In all that follows, it is assumed that the environment variable MEF90_DIR points to the root of the mef90 installation:

    [bourdin@bbserv ~]$ echo $MEF90_DIR
    /home/bourdin/Development/mef90

The actual content of the $MEF90_DIR folder may be somewhat different from the one shown here.

Building PETSc:

  • As of 2023-01-19, vDef uses teh development branch of petsc ("main" branch).
  • More instructions are provided at https://petsc.org/release/install
  • Clone petsc: 
       [bourdin@bbserv HPC]$ git clone --single-branch --branch main https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc.git
  • Set the PETSC_DIR environment variable to point to the extracted folder 
       [bourdin@bbserv petsc]$ echo $PETSC_DIR
   /opt/HPC/petsc
  • Set the PETSC_ARCH environment variable to a meaningful value. This value will be used by mef90 in order to allow out-of-tree build. THis way, several installation of PETSc and vDef (with various optimisation or debugging informations, for instance) can co-exist on a system.

Configure petsc.

vDef requires the following external packages: exodusii, netcdf, pnetcdf, hdf5, metis, parmetis, and zlib. Fortran bindings for the exodusII libraries are needed (--with-exodusii-fortran-bindings` option) The ml and hypre preconditioners are not mandatory but can drastically improve solver performances in some problems.

As part of its setup, petsc will download and compile dependencies. On a system without internet access, one can get a list of all packages that need download then compile petsc. This is a 2 steps process:

  1. Run the configure script with --with-packages-download-dir=<directory> option. This will return a list of packages required and their location.
  2. Download the packages from a machine with internet access and place them in the directory specified in step 1 of the build system.
  3. Re-run the command from step 1.

For instance,

SiMini:petsc-main (main)$ ./configure --download-exodusii=1 --download-hdf5=1 --download-metis=1 --download-netcdf=1 --download-parmetis=1 --download-pnetcdf=1 -download-zlib --with-packages-download-dir=downloads
Download the following packages to /opt/HPC/petsc/downloads 

zlib ['http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz', 'http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz']
hdf5 ['https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.12/hdf5-1.12.2/src/hdf5-1.12.2.tar.bz2', 'http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/hdf5-1.12.2.tar.bz2']
netcdf ['https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/archive/v4.9.0.tar.gz', 'http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/netcdf-4.9.0.tar.gz']
pnetcdf ['git://https://github.com/parallel-netcdf/pnetcdf', 'https://parallel-netcdf.github.io/Release/pnetcdf-1.12.3.tar.gz', 'http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/pnetcdf-1.12.3.tar.gz']
hypre ['git://https://github.com/hypre-space/hypre', 'https://github.com/hypre-space/hypre/archive/aff83e81fce70563edc614edfef76fa998ba96fd.tar.gz']
metis ['git://https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-metis.git', 'https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-metis/get/v5.1.0-p10.tar.gz']
parmetis ['git://https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-parmetis.git', 'https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-parmetis/get/v4.0.3-p8.tar.gz']
mumps ['https://graal.ens-lyon.fr/MUMPS/MUMPS_5.5.1.tar.gz', 'http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/MUMPS_5.5.1.tar.gz']
scalapack ['git://https://github.com/Reference-ScaLAPACK/scalapack', 'https://github.com/Reference-ScaLAPACK/scalapack/archive/5bad7487f496c811192334640ce4d3fc5f88144b.tar.gz']
triangle ['git://https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-triangle', 'https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-triangle/get/v1.3-p2.tar.gz']
exodusii ['git://https://github.com/gsjaardema/seacas.git', 'https://github.com/gsjaardema/seacas/archive/v2022-08-01.tar.gz']
ctetgen ['git://https://bitbucket.org/petsc/ctetgen', 'https://bitbucket.org/petsc/ctetgen/get/ctetgen-0.10.tar.gz']

Then run the script again

Linux system

  • On a RHEL linux system with the GNU compiler suite, the following configuration is a good starting point for a build with optimization 
      ./configure                         \
--COPTFLAGS='-O3 -mcpu=native'   \
--CXXOPTFLAGS='-O3 -mcpu=native' \
--FOPTFLAGS='-O3 -mcpu=native'   \
--CFLAGS='-Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wunused'\
--FFLAGS='-ffree-line-length-none -fallow-argument-mismatch -Wunused'        \
--download-exodusii=1             \
--download-fblaslapack=1          \
--download-hdf5=1                 \
--download-metis=1                \
--download-netcdf=1               \
--download-parmetis=1             \
--download-pnetcdf=1              \
--download-zlib=1                 \
--with-debugging=0                \
--with-exodusii-fortran-bindings  \
--with-mpi-dir=$MPI_HOME          \
--with-shared-libraries=1         \
--with-x11=0
 ```

On a macOS system with gcc 12.2

A version of MPI (both mpich and open-mpi installed from homebrew are tested) must be installed and their binaries, headers, and libraries must be in the standard search paths (or use the --with-mpi-dir optiona):

Once these are installed, configure petsc (with debugging) with

./configure \
    --COPTFLAGS='-O3 -mcpu=native'   \
    --CXXOPTFLAGS='-O3 -mcpu=native' \
    --FOPTFLAGS='-O3 -mcpu=native'   \
    --CFLAGS='-Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wunused'\
    --FFLAGS='-ffree-line-length-none -fallow-argument-mismatch -Wunused'        \
    --download-exodusii=1             \
    --download-hdf5=1                 \
    --download-netcdf=1               \
    --download-parmetis=1             \
    --download-pnetcdf=1              \
    --download-zlib=1                 \
    --with-debugging=0                \
    --with-exodusii-fortran-bindings  \
    --with-shared-libraries=1         \
    --with-x11=0

or substitute your favorite compiler optimizations and disable debugging for an optimized build

In case of problems with X11, try --with-x=0

Build petsc

  • Follow the on-screen instruction to compile petsc from there (make PETSC_DIR=.... PETSC_ARCH=...)
  • (Recommended) Add $PETSC_DIR/bin and $PETSC_DIR/$PETSC_ARCH/bin to $PATH and $PETSC_DIR/$PETSC_ARCH/lib to $PYTHONPATH:
   [bourdin@bbserv ~]$ export PATH=$PETSC_DIR/bin:$PETSC_DIR/$PETSC_ARCH/bin:$PATH
   [bourdin@bbserv ~]$ export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$PETSC_DIR/$PETSC_ARCH/lib

Recommended: snlp (required for plasticity)

Set $SNLP_DIR to the location where snlp will be installed. Remark that SNLP relies on PETSc for its makefile system, so using multiple builds of PETSc will require using multiple builds of SNLP. Then clone, build, and install snlp

[bourdin@bbserv ~]$ git clone https://github.com/bourdin/snlp.git
[bourdin@bbserv ~]$ make
[bourdin@bbserv ~]$ make install

Building vDef

From there, it should be as simple as

   [bourdin@bbserv ~]$ cd $MEF90_DIR; make

Note that the default setting is to link with shared libraries, and set their path using rpath (so that $LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent does not have to be set). This means that $PETSC_DIR/$PETSC_ARCH/lib needs to be readable from the compute nodes. If PETSc libraries are moved, use chrpath to change the search path after building vDef

Testing:

run make test in $MEF90_DIR/HeatXfer, $MEF90_DIR/ThermoElasticity, and $MEF90_DIR/vDef Differences in number of iterations, or round-off error are acceptable

Note that make test will try to run mpi jobs directly. It may be necessary to run make tests in an interactive MPI job session. The MPI job launcher can be changed by setting the MPIEXEC environment variable, and the number of processors by setting NP