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FallBacks or not?
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 5:42 pm
by Zenith
Hi everyone,
I'm new in materials simulation. I want to install Abinit, i read some documentations about and i've a problem: I can't understand the exact meaning of FallBacks and what should i do with the plugins like: BigDFT, Atompaw, wannier90 .. or even LibXC and NetCDF... Should i install them myself, in any version i want, or let the configure script do its job? .. And What's the difference between the two cases?
If necessary, I will install them from the sources.
Thanks in advance!
Re: FallBacks or not?
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:50 pm
by jbeuken
Hi
the build system (BS) installs the fallbacks that you request
if you put in you .ac file
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with_trio_flavor="netcdf"
with_dft_flavor="atompaw+libxc+wannier90"
the BS downloads, compiles and installs the fallbacks inside the abinit folder and will be used to build abinit binary...
if you wants install fallbacks yourself, you can find in
https://www.abinit.org/fallbacks, the versions require for each versions of abinit
A+
Re: FallBacks or not?
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 7:43 pm
by Zenith
Hi,
Thanks for your answer!
1) If I understand correctly, for better benefit of the features of these plugin librairies, i have to install them myself; isn't it?
2) I have to install Abinit on a small HPC, i'm looking for the best installing manner to benefit fully of Abinit... In that way, for installing NetCDF, is it sufficient what is described on the Wiki
https://wiki.abinit.org/doku.php?id=build:install_netcdf, or it's better to take in account parallelism by enabling it and using mpicc and mpifort instead, for the compilation of HDF5 and NetCDF ?
Thanks!
Re: FallBacks or not?
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 3:25 pm
by ebousquet
Hi Zenith,
If your cluster is connected to internet then let Abinit installs the fallback automatically, this is the best option. It is strongly advised to have netcdf and libxc, the rest is up to what you want to do (wannier90, etc).
Best wishes,
Eric
Re: FallBacks or not?
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 9:17 pm
by jbeuken
Hi Zenith,
As Eric says, it's better to let ABINIT install standard plugins....
Concerning the HDF5 problem, the build system of ABINIT does not yet support "as standard" the installation of HDF5 ( parallel or serial )...
( the installation of internal netcdf fallback does not support HDF5... )
But, if you compile, as external libraries, netcdf-4 (with MPI-IO support) + serial hdf5 librairies, ABINIT can "take advantage" of it...
Regards
jmb
Re: FallBacks or not?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:02 am
by Zenith
Thank you for all your response-advices!
Regards