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--- build:minreq [2017/05/27 14:17] – [Compilers] Xavier Gonze
+++ build:minreq [2020/08/10 20:26] – [MPI] Xavier Gonze
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 Any recent desktop or laptop computer is in principle able to perform calculations with Abinit.
-===== Compilers =====
+===== Tools =====
-To be correctly built, Abinit requires a working development environment providing both a C and a Fortran compiler.
+To be correctly built, Abinit requires a working development environment providing both a C and a Fortran compiler,
+as well as Python (version 2.7.5 at least, but version 3.8 is recommended).
 On desktop and laptop computers, we recommend:
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 which we have extensively tested.
-Since the choice is up to the system administrator on HPC environments, we also support the IBM and NAG compilers.
+Since the choice is up to the system administrator on HPC environments, we also support the [[https://www.nag.com/content/nag-fortran-compiler|NAG fortran compiler]].
+/* Since the choice is up to the system administrator on HPC environments, we also support the IBM and NAG compilers. */
 ===== Parallelism =====
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 Abinit does not provide support for multithreading but can benefit from multithreaded versions of its external dependencies, as long as the multithreaded operatons are entirely performed externally. Please note that Abinit is **not** developed with thread-safety in mind and use multithreading with a lot of care.
-==== MPI ====
-==== GPU ====