fenics-tue

Conda based development and simulation environment for FEniCS.

Installation

First, install the Anaconda Python distribution and package manager:

$ curl -o Miniconda3.sh https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh && bash Miniconda3.sh

It should ask you a few simple questions.

Next, install our custom build of FEniCS, which has been uploaded to the tue channel on Anaconda Cloud:

$ conda create -n fenics -c tue python=3.5 fenics

Let's break down the arguments. This first part:

conda create -n fenics

Instructs the conda package manager to create a new environment named fenics. You can have multiple environments (e.g., one for each project/simulation), and you can name them anything you want.

Moving on:

-c tue

This part tells conda to look for (prefer) packages in our tue channel. This part is absolutely vital. Without it, conda will at best not be able to download fenics, and at worse will download fenics from the conda-forge repository.

Finally:

python=3.5 fenics=2017.1.0

This part tells conda to install Python 3.5, and FEniCS 2017.1.0. Currently, Python 2.7 (python=2.7) would work as well, but no other versions of Python will (should) work.

Details

These are just building notes that I haven't organized yet:

# python -> fenics-dijitso
# python -> fenics-ufl
# python -> fenics-instant
# python -> fenics-fiat

# python -> [fenics-ufl, fenics-fiat] -> fenics-ffc
# python -> [fenics-dijitso, fenics-ufl, fenics-instant, fenics-fiat, fenics-ffc] -> fenics-dolfin
# python -> [fenics-dijitso, fenics-ufl, fenics-instant, fenics-fiat, fenics-ffc, fenics-dolfin] -> fenics-mshr

# openmpi

# openmpi -> blacs
# openmpi -> hdf5
# openmpi -> hypre
# openmpi -> scotch

# openmpi -> blacs -> scalapack

# openmpi -> [blacs, blacs, scotch, scalapack] -> mumps

# openmpi -> [blacs, scalapack, scotch, mumps, hdf5, hypre, suitesparse] -> petsc