Solve

Exporting to PHASTA

After the partitioning performed via Chef in the last steps, we have the problem domain in a form that the PHASTA executable can read. Make a directory named "Run". This will contain all of the simulation data from this case. Remember that for this onRamp tutorial we have partitioned our case of interest to 8 parts. Therefore we will also create a subdirectory named "8-procs-case". In this subdirectory make softlinks to the N=8 restart and geombc and restart "checkpoint" files that where constructed. When in this subdirectory a good command to do this is the following :

ln -s ../../Chef/8-1-Chef/8-procs-case/restart* .
ln -s ../../Chef/8-1-Chef/8-procs_case/geombc* .

Also create a numstart.dat file. This file will specify the time and timestep that the simulation has completed to. Use the following command in the "Run/8-procs_case" directory :

echo 0 0>numstart.dat

Build the executable/specify runtime parameters

What remains is to determine the version of PHASTA to build and run. Since there are a bunch of researchers working on PHASTA at any given time, there are many branches/versions of the main code. If you are a part of the research cohort you may be directed to phasta-next, but many of the same steps may be taken from the public version.

Retrieve/build a version of PHASTA code

Navigate to your home directory. Create a directory here named "git-phasta". In a web browser, navigate to the online git repository for phasta-next and select the "clone" or "code" icon. The result should be the simular to the following picture, where a pop-up gives a web address:

Copy this address and within the "git-phasta" directory execute the following command and enter your github credentials:

git clone https://github.com/PHASTA/phasta-next.git

After this is finished their will be a subdirectory created named phasta-next that contains the code tree that you wish to build. Back within the git-phasta directory create another subdirectory named: "build_phasta-next". Now we must set the environment so that the compiler has the necessary libraries. If you perform the following command, the listed environment libraries that ken often uses are listed, and are often sufficient:

more ~kjansen/soft-core.sh 

At the time that this page is created, the relevant commands to load the needed environment are the following:

soft add +gcc-6.3.0
soft add +openmpi-gnu-1.10.6-gnu49-thread
soft add +simmodeler-6.0-171202

If the user needs additional libraries they can often be found with the following command:

softenv

Additional notes

If there is a specific branch off of phasta-next that you'd like to build, navigate to phasta-next and use the following command:

git checkout "branchname". 

If this is a branch that I will be working on for a while, I tend to alter the build and code directories according to the branch-name.