itaps-parallel /usr/local/itaps on mesh.ep.wisc.edu

[Mark Miller]

Tim, Mark and Carl,

Any chance you have some more 'interesting' datasets than whats in the
source distos? Tim, can you send me the reactor dataset? I'd like to use
more interesting data for slides Lori needs.

Mark


On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 17:29 -0700, Mark Miller wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been working on getting VisIt RE-installed with support for all
> three ITAPS implementations and have a hit a couple of snags...
> 
> 1. Does not appear to be an FMDB installation in /usr/local/itaps.
>    What is there is only the autopack lib for FMDB.
> 
> 2. -fPIC not used to produce the .a's for MOAB. I need to build
>    .so's for VisIt. To do this from .a's for MOAB, those .a's needed
>    to have been compiled with position independent code (-fPIC).
>    Alternatively, if .so's for MOAB are there, I can use those
>    directly.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 13:45 -0700, Mark Miller wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Ok, yes, I do have all three implementations co-existing in VisIt now.
> > And, this email would include a picture (with some ridumentary test
> > data) of output from all three implementations being displayed in the
> > same VisIt session. However, when I went to save the image I had spent
> > several minutes adjusting, VisIt crashed on me :(. But, I've got the
> > issues with co-existance of implementations resolved and will install
> > those to the bootcamp/SC08 machine tomorrow.
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 12:32 -0700, Mark Miller wrote:
> > > Hi Tim and all,
> > > 
> > > I am pretty close to being able to build a VisIt installation with FMDB,
> > > GRUMMP and MOAB implementation plugins co-existing in the same VisIt
> > > executable. I have at least made it past the hard part of configuring so
> > > that the same plugin source code can be compiled and linked against any
> > > number of ITAPS implementations. Assuming I will be able to open and
> > > view data using each of the three plugins, my next step will be to get
> > > this all installed on the bootcamp/SC08 machine. I think will be able to
> > > get that working by tomorrow.
> > > 
> > > Mark
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 12:42 -0500, Tim Tautges wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >    For those of you with access to mesh.ep.wisc.edu, I've made a 
> > > > /usr/local/itaps directory, and an itaps group, and made you all members 
> > > > of that group.  You're welcome to install tools into that directory that 
> > > > might be useful to others.  At a minimum, I think any of the tools we 
> > > > give examples of in the tutorials should be there, including MOAB, FMDB, 
> > > > visit, Mesquite, and maybe Frontier.  I've installed MOABser and MOABpar 
> > > > there already (serial and parallel versions, resp.).
> > > > 
> > > > - tim
> > > > 
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