Installation on supercomputers¶

On a large cluster, refer to the administrator to install the requirements and to choose the compilation options.

For a few existing machines, we provide instructions in the folder scripts/compile_tools/machine. Each file contains compiler flags and environment setup to optimize Smilei’s performance.

Archer2	Archer2 (GNU compiler): `archer2`
Cori	Haswell: `cori_hsw` KNL: `cori_knl`
Frioul	`frioul`
FUGAKU	Fujitsu compiler in trad mode : `fugaku_fujitsu_tm` Fujitsu compiler in clang mode : `fugaku_fujitsu_cm`
Joliot-Curie	KNL (Intel compiler): `joliot_curie_knl` Skylake (Intel compiler): `joliot_curie_skl` Rome (Intel compiler): `joliot_curie_rome` A64FX with the GNU compiler: `joliot_curie_gnu_a64fx` A64FX with the ARM compiler: `joliot_curie_arm_a64fx` A64FX with the Fujitsu compiler: `joliot_curie_fujitsu_a64fx`
Jean Zay	Cascadelake: `jean_zay`
Jureca	Haswell: `jureca`
Marconi	Broadwell: `marconi_bdw` KNL: `marconi_knl`
Occigen	Haswell: `occigen`
Ruche	Cascadelake (Intel): `ruche`
Stampede	KNL: `stampede2_knl` skylake: `stampede2_skylake`

We also provide instructions for some common architectures:

Intel Cascadelake processors: cascadelake
Intel Skylake processors: skylake
Intel Knights Landing processors: knl
Intel Broadwell processors: broadwell
Intel Haswell processors: haswell

All these files contain:

Commented commands that must be executed manually by the user
Compiler options automatically accounted for during compilation

To print out the commands to be executed, type make machine=target help. See, for instance:

$ make machine=occigen help
...
Machine comments for occigen:
# module purge
# module load intel intelmpi hdf5/1.8.18 qt/4.8.6 python/2.7.12 mesa/17.2.4 VTK/7.0.0

After copying and pasting those commands to the terminal, you can use the command make machine=target to compile Smilei. For instance:

$ make machine=occigen

If your machine is not in this list, please contact your administrator for help on the installation. You may submit your installation instructions to the Smilei repository so that we can add your machine to the list.