Compiling Parsec

At the beginning of the Makefile file, edit the include line with the correct machine-dependent compilation file. Existing compilation files are inside subdirectory config. Some of the existing files are:

make.ibmsp3 make.ibmsp3_mpi : sp.msi.umn.edu, with/without MPI support.
make.intel : plain i686 machine running linux.

This code has been ported and tested on a variety of different platforms: IBM SP3 and SP4 (AIX compiler), SGI (intel and f90 compilers), Intel/Linux (g95, intel compilers).

Usually, the executable is named parsec.ser (no MPI support) or parsec.mpi (with MPI support).

Porting to New Platforms

Besides creating a new make.* file for the machine you want to use, these are the files you may have to modify in order to port it to other platforms: myflush.F, timing.F, cfftw.F

Parsec uses the following external libraries:

ARPACK, diagonalization of sparse matrices.
FFTW, versions 2.x or 3.x, used for 3-dimensional FFT of real functions.
LAPACK/BLAS, linear algebra. Alternatively, support for libraries ESSL (IBM) and MKL (Intel Math Kernel Library) is also available.
MPI : message passing interface, for parallel machines.

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Murilo Tiago 2005-10-06