MetisMex

MetisMex is a Matlab interface to METIS. This code works with the latest stable version of Metis (5.1.0, 2013-03-30). And the source files are included under external folder.

The following instructions worked on Ubuntu (14.04 LTS) and OSX 10.10 with Matlab installed. The instructions on Windows 10 have been validated with MATLAB 2020a and Visual Studio 2019 BuildTools.

Compile and Installation on Ubuntu

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1. Download MetisMex

   git clone https://github.com/YingzhouLi/metismex.git
   cd metismex
   

2. Install the latest version of metis.

   a. Superuser or Root

   sudo apt-get install libmetis-dev
   

   b. User

   cd external/metis
   make config
   make
   cd ../..
   

3. Compile or Install MetisMex.

   a. Compile MetisMex

   matlab -nojvm -r "make;quit"
   

   b. Install MetisMex

   matlab -nojvm -r "make(1);quit"
   

4. Test MetisMex

   cd test
   matlab &
   >> test
   >> test_sparse
   

Compile and Installation on Mac

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1. Download MetisMex

   git clone https://github.com/YingzhouLi/metismex.git
   cd metismex
   

2. Install the latest version of metis.

   a. Superuser or Root

   brew install metis
   

   b. User

   cd external/metis
   make config
   make
   cd ../..
   

3. Compile or Install MetisMex.

   a. Compile MetisMex

   matlab -nojvm -r "make;quit"
   

   b. Install MetisMex

   matlab -nojvm -r "make(1);quit"
   

4. Test MetisMex

   cd test
   matlab &
   >> test
   >> test_sparse
   

Compile and Installation on Windows

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1. Prerequisites packages include CMake and Visual Studio package.

   a. CMake can be installed from either installer or through chocolatey Windows package manager.

   b. There are four different versions of Visual Studio

   • Community

   • Professional

   • Enterprise

   • BuildTools

   The setup of mex in Matlab is straightforward for the first three versions. However, if you prefer to install BuildTools, which is much ligher in terms of disk space, then you need to udpate mex setup as in this post.

2. Download MetisMex as a zip file and unzip it.

3. Install the latest version of metis through Windows PowerShell.

   cd PATH_TO_METISMEX\external\metis
   mkdir build\Win-x86_64
   cd build\Win-x86_64
   cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64 -DGKLIB_PATH="..\..\GKlib" ..\..
   &"PATH_TO_VS\Bin\MSBuild.exe" ALL_BUILD.vcxproj /property:Configuration=Release
   cd ..\..
   

   If different version of Visual Studio is installed, the cmake line need to be updated accordingly as in link or link.

4. Compile or Install MetisMex.

   a. Compile MetisMex

   matlab -nojvm -r "make;quit"
   

   b. Install MetisMex

   matlab -nojvm -r "make(1);quit"
   

5. Test MetisMex

   cd test
   matlab &
   >> test
   >> test_sparse
   
   
   
   

Uninstall on Ubuntu, Mac, or Windows

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1. Download MetisMex.

   git clone https://github.com/YingzhouLi/metismex.git
   cd metismex
   

2. Uninstall MetisMex

   matlab -nojvm -r "make(-1);quit"
   

BibTeX Export

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@software{li_yingzhou_2020_3746725,
  author       = {Li, Yingzhou},
  title        = {{M}etis{M}ex: A {MATLAB} toolbox of interfaces to the 
                   {M}etis library}},
  month        = apr,
  year         = 2020,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v1.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.3746725},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3746725}
}

Acknowledgments

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Many thanks to David Gleich and Robert Bridson. Yingzhou Li implements this repository after carefully exploring their previous work metismex and metismex.c.