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- | ===== Minimum requirements | + | ===== Hardware |
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- | ==== Hardware | + | |
Abinit requires at least 1 CPU, 4Gb of RAM and 4Gb of disk space to perform the calculations of the tutorials and the test suite. The most complex calculations may require more than 10,000 CPUs, more than 1Tb of RAM, and a few Tb of disk space. | Abinit requires at least 1 CPU, 4Gb of RAM and 4Gb of disk space to perform the calculations of the tutorials and the test suite. The most complex calculations may require more than 10,000 CPUs, more than 1Tb of RAM, and a few Tb of disk space. | ||
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Any recent desktop or laptop computer is in principle able to perform calculations with Abinit. | 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: | On desktop and laptop computers, we recommend: | ||
* the [[http:// | * the [[http:// | ||
- | * the [[https:// | + | * the [[https:// |
- | + | which we have extensively tested. | |
- | ==== Libraries ==== | + | |
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- | Abinit will work only if linear algebra libraries are present on the computer. Only 2 linear algebra components are mandatory: | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
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- | Even if you are free to install the reference implementation from Netlib, | + | |
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- | If you are using Linux, the best way to install linear algebra libraries is to use the package manager of your distribution to get some of them and/or install the [[https:// | + | |
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- | For MacOS X, many libraries can be installed using [[https:// | + | |
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- | The University of Tennessee has also some useful information on [[https:// | + | |
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- | ===== Parallelism ===== | + | |
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- | ==== OpenMP and multithreading ==== | + | |
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- | If your computer has multiple cores, you might want to take benefit from all of them instead of running Abinit on only one of them. There are 2 ways of achieving it: [[wp> | + | |
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- | Various parts of Abinit | + | |
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- | Abinit does not provide support for multithreading but can benefit from multithreaded versions of its external dependencies, | + | |
- | ==== MPI ==== | + | Since the choice is up to the system administrator on HPC environments, |
+ | /* Since the choice is up to the system administrator on HPC environments, | ||
- | ==== GPU ==== | ||
- | ===== Enhanced components ===== | ||
- | ==== Linear algebra ==== | ||
- | ==== FFT ==== | ||
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