[petsc-users] installation on cloud platform

[Marco Zocca]

Hello Tabrez,

  thank you for the walkthrough; I'll give it a try as soon as possible.

My main doubt was indeed regarding the host resolution and security;

what does the special hostfile line do? What about that "ip-x-x-x-x"
construct?

Thank you and kindest regards,

Marco




>
> 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
>> <mailto: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.
>>

>>