[yt-users] yt on Blue Waters

[Matthew Turk]

I think it's a lot easier now that the new install script has been merged in:

http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-dev-spacepope.org/2016-April/006350.html

-Matt

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Brian O'Shea <bwoshea at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes indeed.  It's a gigantic pain.  Here are instructions.  Good luck!
>
> -----------------
>
> 0) Get the GNU software environment set up:  “module swap PrgEnv-cray
> PrgEnv-gnu” .  This will be necessary later.
>
> 1)  Install the Anaconda python distribution
> (https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/) for 64-bit Linux systems.
> Refresh your path so the Anaconda python’s in your path.
>
> 2)  Download mpi4py from https://bitbucket.org/mpi4py/mpi4py/, or grab it
> from my home directory on Blue Waters (~bwoshea/mpi4py-1.3.1.tar.gz).
>
> 3)  Once you’ve unpacked it in your home directory, edit the file mpi.cfg,
> which is in the top-level mpi4py directory, and add the following chunk of
> text at the end of the file:
>
> [cray]
> mpicc = cc
> mpicxx = CC
> extra_link_args = -shared
>
> then, in the top-level mpi4py directory, type:
>
> python setup.py build --mpi=cray
> python setp.py install
>
> At this point, you should have a functional version of mpi4py that uses the
> cray MPI libraries.
>
> 4)  You can then install yt via source in your home directory:
>
> hg clone https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt
> hg update yt
> python setup.py develop
>
> And it should work, though you’re going to need to modify your
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to your anaconda /lib directory.  You can verify
> that yt and mpi4py are playing nicely together by running the scripts
> hw_MPI.py and yt_parallel_test.py, both of which are sitting in my home
> directory.  (Note that you can do this via batch script or through the
> interactive queue, both with aprun - you can’t just do it from the login
> node.)
>
> 5) and, optionally, if you want to install Rockstar using yt from source,
> you do the following:
>
> hg clone http://bitbucket.org/MatthewTurk/rockstar
> cd rockstar
> hg pull
> hg up -C tip
> make lib
>
> and *then* make a file called rockstar.cfg that has a single line of text:
> the path of the rockstar source code directory.  At that point, you need to
> run “python setup.py develop” again, and yt will recognize that rockstar has
> been installed and play nicely with it.  You will likely also have to modify
> your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point at your rockstar directory so it can find the
> rockstar library (librockstar.so).
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Jonah Miller
> <jonah.maxwell.miller at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi yt users,
>>
>> Does anybody have experience installing the development version of yt on
>> blue waters (as opposed to relying on the module pre-provided)? If so, do
>> you have any tips or gotchas? I will be attempting an installation in the
>> next few days and I'm sort of hoping it's a solved problem.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jonah Miller
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