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diff --git a/academic/meep/README b/academic/meep/README index 9baddd56dd..4bfc8b293b 100644 --- a/academic/meep/README +++ b/academic/meep/README @@ -1,14 +1,46 @@ meep (electromagnetic FDTD solver) -Meep is a free and open-source software package for -electromagnetics simulation via the finite-difference -time-domain (FDTD) method spanning a broad range of -applications. +Meep is a free and open-source software package for electromagnetics +simulation via the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method +spanning a broad range of applications. It saves results in hdf5 +format. -You may wish to preinstall: harminv, mpb +This package requires: hdf5, libctl, lapack, mpb + +You probably will also want to preinstall: harminv, openmpi You may wish to also install: h5utils -If the build script can find the ATLAS libraries, it will -adapt the configure options to use them rather than the -default lapack. +You very probably want to build a multi-processor version of this +code by adding the "--with-openmp" configure option. Here, mpb is +specified as a prerequisite since at the present time the python +interface will not build without it. + + + +Configuration: + +If the build script can find the ATLAS libraries, it will adapt the +configure options to use them, rather than the the default choice of +lapack. + +You can add additional options to the command line using the +environment variable SBOPTIONS_MEEP; e.g. to enable MPI (multi- +processor calculation) using openmp, use: + +SBOPTIONS_MEEP="--with-openmp" ./meep.Slackbuild + +Alternatively, if building non-interactively (e.g. if using slpkg), +use/create the file /etc/sbo_pkg_options.conf since this slackbuild +script will search it for options. Simply include a line starting +"meep:" followed by options, e.g.: + +meep: --with-openmp + +Currently, building the python support for meep can be problematic +unless the mpb package is also installed; if you do so, and (e.g.) +use openmp, it is best to build mpb with the same option. You may +also need to install mpi4py using pip. If you do not want python +support, specify "--without-python", and in this case installing mpb +is not necessary. + |