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diff --git a/academic/mpb/README b/academic/mpb/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4710eced99 --- /dev/null +++ b/academic/mpb/README @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +mpb (computes electromagnetic band structures and modes) + +MPB is a free and open-source software package for computing +electromagnetic band structures and modes. It saves results in hdf5 +format. + +This package requires: hdf5, libctl, lapack + +You may wish to also install: h5utils + +You very probably want to build a multi-processor version of this +code by adding the "--with-openmp" configure option. + +Configuration: + +If the build script can find the ATLAS libraries, it will adapt the +configure options to use them rather than the default lapack. + +You can add additional options to the command line using +the environment variable SBOPTIONS_MPB; e.g. to enable MPI +(multi-processor calculation) using openmp, use: + +SBOPTIONS_MPB="--with-openmp" ./mpb.Slackbuild + +Alternatively, if building non-interactively (e.g. if using slpkg), +use/create the file /etc/sbo_pkg_options.conf since this slackbuild +script will search it for options. Simply include a line starting +"mpb:" followed by options, e.g.: + +mpb: --with-openmp + +If you want to use mpich instead of openmp, you will have to recompile +the installed slackware fftw library with two additional configure +options, i.e. not only "--with-mpi" but also "--enable-type-prefix". + +Note: + +This mpb build script does *two* passes. This is so that when +MPI support is enabled, the first compiles the mpb-data utility, +then the second builds the full MPI version. The resulting package +includes both, with any MPI version of the files replacing the non- +MPI version. |