[petsc-users] installation on cloud platform

[Barry Smith]

   Tabrez,

     This is great, thanks for sending it. Do you mind if Satish adds it to the http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/installation.html  file as an example?

  Barry

> On Jan 4, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Tabrez Ali <stali at geology.wisc.edu> wrote:
> 
> Or you can install everything yourself. 
> 
> On vanilla Debian based AMIs (e.g., Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) just make sure to add "127.0.1.1 ip-x-x-x-x" to your /etc/hosts followed by
> 
> $ cd
> $ ssh-keygen -t rsa
> $ cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub  >> .ssh/authorized_keys
> 
> After that the usual stuff, e.g.,
> 
> $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get upgrade
> $ sudo apt-get install gcc gfortran g++ cmake wget
> $ wget http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/release-snapshots/petsc-3.6.3.tar.gz
> $ ./configure --with-cc=gcc --with-fc=gfortran --download-mpich --download-fblaslapack --with-metis=1 --download-metis=1 --with-debugging=0
> $ export PETSC_DIR=/home/ubuntu/petsc-3.6.3
> $ export PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux2-c-opt
> $ make all
> $ export PATH=$PATH:$PETSC_DIR/$PETSC_ARCH/bin
> 
> Tabrez
> 
> 
> On 01/03/2016 07:07 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Marco Zocca <zocca.marco at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>>   has anyone here tried/managed to install PETSc on e.g. Amazon AWS or
>> the Google Compute Engine?
>> 
>> I believe some extra components are needed for coordination, e.g.
>> Kubernetes or Mesos (in turn requiring that the library be compiled
>> within some sort of container, e.g. Docker), but I'm a bit lost amid
>> all the options.
>> 
>> I have no idea what those even do.
>>  
>> Are the MPI functions (e.g. broadcast, scatter, gather ..?) used by
>> PETSc compatible with those platforms?
>> 
>> There are a bunch of papers documenting MPI performance on AWS. We just use vanilla MPI,
>> so you request a configuration that has it installed.
>> 
>>    Matt
>>  
>> Thank you in advance,
>> 
>> Marco
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>