Obtaining and Compiling Synergia

Obtaining Synergia

Synergia is available through the authors. Please contact Panagiotis Spentzouris and James Amundson. You may be given cvs access or a tarball.

Downloading Synergia with cvs

(Please substitute your NERSC CVS username for "goofus" in the following:)
Two modules are needed: mxyzptlk and Impact3d/Layer. The Synergia code is in the fnal-branch of Impact3d/Layer.

cvs -d goofus@cvs.nersc.gov:/cvs/accel checkout mxyzptlk
cvs -d goofus@cvs.nersc.gov:/cvs/accel checkout -r fnal-branch Impact3d/Layer

Downloading the Synergia tarball

The authors will provide instructions.

Compiling Synergia

Autotools

Compiling Synergia requires automake version 1.6.1 or later, which, in turn, requires automake 2.53 or later. If an appropriate version of automake/autoconf is not available on your system, installing a local copy is a straightforward exercise. (This step should be skipped if automake >= 1.6.1 is already available.)

A) The simplest thing to do is to just use my installation. I have them
installed in ~amundson/opt on both fnal afs and seaborg. To use them,
just type
    setenv PATH ~amundson/opt/bin:$PATH
or
    export PATH=~amundson/opt/bin:$PATH
depending on your shell.

B) It is also easy to install the current versions of autoconf and
automake in your own area.

    1) Get the tarballs.
    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.6.1.tar.gz

    They are also in my home area in fnal afs space, module inconsequential
differences in version number.

    2) Unpack with tar zxf.

    3) Build and install autoconf in your local area. I suggest $HOME/opt,
but any directory will do.
        cd autoconf-2.53
        ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt
        make
        make install

    4) Add the bin directory from step 3) to your path
        setenv PATH $HOME/opt/bin:$PATH
    or
        export PATH=$HOME/opt/bin:$PATH

    5) Build and install automake with the same prefix you used for
autoconf.
        cd automake-1.6.1
        ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt
        make
        make install

Compiling mxyzptlk

cd mxyzptlk
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=$HOME/mxyzptlk
make
make install

Compiling IMPACT

cd Impact3d/Layer
./bootstrap
./configure
make

Note that there is no install step for IMPACT.