PETSc

Prerequisites

1. Install openmpi. See this page for more info.

   • – Note: on the mac, you can’t use the prebuilt openmpi binaries because they do not include fortran support; you’ll need to install from source

Compilation

1. Download PETSc 3.0 from here

2. Extract archive (tar -xzvf petsc…)

    export PETSC_DIR=$PWD
   ./config/configure.py --with-petsc4py=1 --download-petsc4py=yes --prefix=/usr/local --with-shared  --with-superul_dist=1 --download-superlu_dist=yes --with-parmetis=1 --download-parmetis=yes  --with-superlu=1 --download-superlu=yes 
    PETSC_ARCH=linux-gnu-c-debug; export PETSC_ARCH
    #PETSC_ARCH=darwin9.7.0-c-debug; export PETSC_ARCH #on the mac
    make all
    make test

Installation

•  sudo su
   export PETSC_DIR=$PWD
   PETSC_ARCH=linux-gnu-c-debug; export PETSC_ARCH
   make install

Post Install

• Add the following to ~/.bashrc

   PETSC_DIR=/usr/local; export PETSC_DIR
   PETSC_ARCH=linux-gnu-c-debug; export PETSC_ARCH

Install petsc4py

1. see Installation Notes