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(Installing the Build Distributions)
(Porting WIND to a New UNIX Platform)
(WIND at NASA Glenn (GRC only))
Overview
The NPARC Alliance flow simulation system is distributed
to users as a collection of compressed tar files,
containing the WIND code and several pre- and post-processing tools.
Both the WIND code and the tools are available in two different
"distributions" - an application distribution and a build
distribution.
The application distributions are intended for those who will be
running the codes, but will not be modifying them.
The build distributions are intended for those who must build the
executables themselves, either to run on a computational platform not
currently supported by the NPARC Alliance, or to include some compile-time
option not present in the application distribution.
[Developers also have access to a development distribution.
This is discussed in the
Development
Environment section of the
WIND
Developer's Reference, accessible only to registered WIND developers.]
- WIND Application Distribution
- The WIND application distribution includes all the
executable programs and shell scripts necessary to run the WIND
code on any supported computational platform.
Pre-compiled WIND 5.0 executables are available for the following
systems:
- Silicon Graphics
- IRIX 6.5, R5000, R10000, and R12000 processors
- Multi-processing IRIX 6.5, R10000, R12000, and
R14000 processors
- Hewlett-Packard
- HPPAMP11, PA-8500 processor
- Sun
- Single and multi-processing SunOS 5.x, SPARC4U
processor
- Single and multi-processing Linux, x86 processor
The WIND and PVM executables were created assuming rsh
(remsh for HP systems) will be used as the
"remote shell" command for parallel operation.
If WIND is to be run in parallel mode on systems using some
other remote shell command, like ssh, you'll need to build
the WIND and PVM executables using the build distribution.
The WIND executable was also built without MPI message passing.
If you're going to be running on a multi-processor system and
using MPI, you'll need to build the WIND executable using the
build distribution.
- Tools Application Distribution
- A tools application distribution includes all the
executable programs and shell scripts necessary to run one
or more of the various pre- and post-processing tools on any
supported computational platform.
This includes GMAN, a
pre-processor used for setting boundary conditions and multi-zone
connectivity, and CFPOST, a
post-processor used to list and plot results, generate reports,
and produce files for other post-processors.
It also includes a variety of smaller utilities, described in the
WIND Utilities Guide.
Pre-compiled tools executables are generally available for the
same platforms as WIND.
- WIND Build Distribution
- The WIND build distribution contains all the files needed
to build and install the WIND code on any supported platform.
This includes:
- source code for the WIND flow solver
- source code for all the required library routines,
including PVM
- shell scripts needed to run WIND
- Makefiles for a variety of computational platforms
- Tools Build Distribution
- A tools build distribution contains all the files needed
to build and install one or more of the tools on any supported
platform.
This includes:
- source code for the tool(s)
- source code for all the required library routines
- shell scripts needed to run the tool(s)
- Makefiles for a variety of computational platforms