alsp_installation_notes.txt

Installing ALPS on Stampede.
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Suppose you are working at some "work directory". Let's refer to it as $mywork:

$ cd ~/where/i/install/things
$ mywork=$PWD

Download Boost:

$ wget -S 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.48.0/boost_1_48_0.tar.bz2?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fboost%2Ffiles%2Fboost%2F1.48.0%2F&ts=1435765441&use_mirror=iweb' -O boost_1_48_0.tar.bz2

Unpack Boost and go to Boost directory:

$ tar -xjf boost_1_48_0.tar.bz2 
$ cd boost_1_48_0/tools/build/v2/

Tell Boost that we want to have MPI library installed (unless the directive is already there):

$ [ -f ~/user-config.jam ] && grep '^using mpi ;' ~/user-config.jam || echo 'using mpi ;' >>~/user-config.jam

Bootstrap Boost:

$ ./bootstrap.sh
$ ./b2 install --prefix=$mywork/boost_1_48_0/000install_b2

Install Boost in $mywork/boost_1_48_0.installed (this will take a while):

$ cd $mywork/boost_1_48_0/
$ ./000install_b2/bin/b2 toolset=intel-15.0.2 --prefix=$mywork/boost_1_48_0.installed install

Meantime, one can download and unpack ALPS:

$ cd $mywork
$ wget http://alps.comp-phys.org/static/software/releases/alps-2.2.b4-src.tar.gz
$ tar -xzf alps-2.2.b4-src.tar.gz
$ cd alps-2.2.b4-src/ 
$ ALPS_DIR=$PWD/install
$ mkdir build && cd build

Download a patch and patch ALPS to prevent it from searching for Python unnecessarily:

$ wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/galexv/811b1183019c7198d252/raw/eb2fc11a80347c83868fc8486eac92c77b8203aa/alps-patch.patch
$ (cd ../alps/config; patch -b) <alps-patch.patch

Install ALPS:

$ module add hdf5 fftw3 cmake

$ CC=$(which icc) CXX=$(which icpc) cmake ../alps -DBoost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS=1 -DMKL_INCLUDE_DIR=$MKLROOT -DFFTW_INCLUDE_DIR=$TACC_FFTW3_INC -DFFTW_LIBRARIES=$TACC_FFTW3_LIB/libfftw3.a -DHDF5_ROOT=$TACC_HDF5_DIR -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$ALPS_DIR -DBOOST_ROOT=$mywork/boost_1_48_0.installed -DALPS_BUILD_PYTHON=OFF

(get a bunch of warnings regarding libz.so.1 in /usr/lib64 being hidden by /opt/apps/zlib/1.2.8/x86_64/lib)

$ nice make -j4

$ make install