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Installation notes for ABINIT v4.6

This file provides a description of the operations needed to install the ABINIT package, to generate the executable and to make the tests.

See a recent version of the new user's guide, for an introduction to the abinit package. See a recent version of the abinis help file for learning how to use the code. Both of them can be found in the Infos subdirectory.

Any comment or suggestion to improve the procedure will be welcome ! Simply contact the ABINIT group <
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## Summary :

- How to get a version of ABINIT ?
- How to make the executable ?
- How to make the internal tests ?
- How to make the other tests ?
- Things that are NOT in the installation files.
- For advanced users : how to make the installation files ?

## How to get a version of ABINIT ?

We will distinguish three cases :

1. you have a F90 compiler under UNIX/Linux (or MacOS X) and you want to compile the source files.
2. you run one of the UNIX/Linux (or MacOS X) platforms on which ABINIT is installed before each release, and you do not want to compile the source files.
3. you want to run ABINIT under DOS/Windows.

In the three cases, the installation files are available on the web site.

You must download different files for the different cases(x.x.x is the version).

Case 1 (under UNIX/Linux or MacOS X, and you want to compile) :

> download the file abinit-x.x.x.tar.gz

> or

> download the four files abinitX-x.x.x.tar.gz where X is A, B, C or D

> The abinit-x.x.x.tar.gz gzipped tar file contains all the sources of the ABINIT code (including the files needed for generating the FFTs, Numeric, Blas and Lapack libraries), the complete Infos directory, the complete set of Tests, all the scripts and makefiles, the pseudopotentials needed for tests.
> It does NOT contain the object files and the binary executable files.
> You might as well download separately four different tar.gz files named abinitA-x.x.x.tar.gz, abinitB-x.x.x.tar.gz abinitC-x.x.x.tar.gz, and abinitD-x.x.x.tar.gz . This opportunity is provided in case you have a slow connection to the ABINIT Web site, and think your ftp connection might be not stable enough to download the entire abinit-x.x.x.tar.gz file : the four different files are each about one quarter of the single file, and altogether they contain also the full ABINIT package.

Case 2 (under UNIX/Linux or Mac OS X, and you do not want to compile) :

> download platform_seq-x.x.x.tar.gz, for the sequential version only,

> or

> download platform_par-x.x.x.tar.gz, for the parallel version only (if it exists for the platform),

> or

> download platform-x.x.x.tar.gz, for sequential and parallel versions (if both exist for the platform).

> Such gzipped tar files contains the binary executable files (sequential, or parallel, or both), the complete Infos directory, and the different files needed to execute either the 5 internal tests (sequential version), or tests from the Test_paral directory (parallel version), or both. In what follows, we will focus on the sequential executable (called abinis). One should begin to use the parallel executable (called abinip) only when sufficient experience has been gained with abinis.
> The gzipped tar file does NOT contain the source files, neither the Test_fast, Test_v1, Test_v2, Test_v3, Test_v4, and Test_cpu directories, nor the corresponding pseudopotentials. The possible platforms are :
> - pclinux_pgi (PC under Linux, using the Portland Group Inc. compiler),
> - pclinux_ifc (PC under Linux, using the Intel compiler - a bit faster),
> - itanium2_ifc (PC-Itanium2 under Linux, using the Intel compiler),
> - ibm_pw2 (IBM with Power 2 processors),
> - ibm_44p (IBM model 44P with Power III+ processors),
> - compaq_ev56 (DEC/Compaq machines with EV56 alpha processors),
> - compaq_ev67 (DEC/Compaq machines with EV67 alpha processors),
> - hp_pa7200 (HP PA RISC processors, model 7200),
> - hp_pa8000 (HP PA RISC processors, model 8000),
> - hp_pa8500 (HP PA RISC processors, model 8500),
> - sgi_r12000,
> - sgi_r14000,
> - sun_ultrasparc,
> - fujitsu_vpp,
> - nec
> - mac OS X
> For the Intel/Linux machines, the binaries contain all the library routines statically linked. They should be very portable (and they have been ported to more than 5 different machines in different countries, or of different construction ). However, they have been compiled by a compiler that generates code that needs an IP number to work. So, they will not run if your machine has not been IP'ed. For the other platforms, the executable does not contain all the library routines (they are linked dynamically), so they might not be as portable. The portability of the executable has been checked only for IBM PW2 and SGI Origin 2000 platforms.

Case 3 (you want to run ABINIT under DOS/Windows) :

> download intel_DOSWin_seq-x.x.x.exe, for the sequential version.

> This is a self-extracting zip file that contains the binary executable files, the complete Infos directory, and the different files needed to execute the 5 internal tests. It does NOT contain the source files, nor the Test_fast, Test_v1, Test_v2, Test_v3, Test_v4 and Test_cpu directories, and the corresponding pseudopotentials.
> Note : in order to compile ABINIT under DOS/Windows, you need the PGI workstation environment. The procedure to be followed differs from what will be explained below, and will not be described. Contact the ABINIT group if needed.

In the three cases, execute the following actions :

> 1) Transfer the above-mentioned file(s) to your machine, in a directory suitable for the installation of the present version of ABINIT, and subsequent ones. You should have about 100 MB of disk space to install the code, maybe more, depending on the version, and the number of tests that you will do.

> 2a) Under UNIX/Linux, gunzip (on some machine you need gzip -d) and untar the file 'abinit-x.x.x.tar.gz' or 'platform-x.x.x.tar.gz' (or the sequential or parallel reduction of the latter file) :

> > gunzip abinit-x.x.x.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

> > or

> > gunzip platform-x.x.x.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

> 2b) Under Windows, double-click the icon of the file intel_DOSWin_seq-x.x.x.exe to retrieve the files and directories. You can also run it as a command in a DOS window or use your favorite unzipping utility.

If correctly done, a main directory, denoted abinit-x.x.x in the present document (not that it bears another name if it comes from a platform-dependent tar file), and a whole set of subdirectories should have been created. One of them is called 'Infos'. It contains many important informations. In particular, you will find the description of the different subdirectories in the abinit-x.x.x/Infos/dirs_and_files file. This file also describes the content of the Infos directory, that is, all the information files.

*** It is strongly adviced to the installer to read (and print) NOW the abinit-x.x.x/Infos/dirs_and_files file. ***

## How to make the executables ?

If you were in case 2, then you already have the binary executables abinis, newsp, mrgddb and anaddb, so that you might skip the present section and go to the internal testing. However, just for fun, if you are in UNIX or Linux, you can issue the make command, in the abinit-x.x.x directory :

> make

This will print the list of the basic keywords for the make utility. This list of basic keywords is completed by keywords specific to developers, obtained by typing

> make dev

We now suppose that you have a F90 compiler and you want to compile the source files (case 1). You must provide to the 'make' utility some information: the location of F90 and C compilers on your machine, the cpp utility, the blas library, the location of PERL ... For this, you must create in the abinit-x.x.x directory a file (or a symbolic link) named 'makefile_macros', that you will have to design starting from already existing example files. Examples of such files are contained in the subdirectories of the abinit-x.x.x/Machine_dept_files directory. Actually, if one of the existing 'makefile_macros' file is suitable for you, you will have simply to issue an instruction like the following :

> ln -s Machine_dept_files/DEC/makefile_macros.newton makefile_macros

(here, a symbolic link is created, so that 'makefile_macros' refers to Machine_dept_files/DEC/makefile_macros.newton , a file suitable for the DEC machine named 'newton' at the PCPM). In order to generate a new 'makefile_macros' file, a help file called 'help.makefile_macros' can be found in the abinit-x.x.x/Infos directory. You can ask some help to the ABINIT group. When you have succeeded to create one such file, please send it to us, so that it can be maintained in the next versions of the code.

When the 'makefile_macros' file is ready, you will have to issue the 'make' command, followed by some keyword.

To get the sequential version of all the executables, you must type :

> make allseq

> or

> make allseq >& log.file

(allseq is an abbreviation for all sequential executables; log.file can be any filename, and is useful when the messages from make are too long)

Issuing this 'make allseq' command will trigger a whole set of actions (not easy to follow, as you will see).
The make utility will use the file 'Makefile', that calls a script called 'makemake', to produce another makefile, called 'tmp_makefile', that calls the 'makearch' script from different subdirectories, that create themselves 'tmp_makefile' files, that compile the fortran source (and eventually one C file), create libraries and link the different objects.
Moreover, usually, this works without problem !

Let's us suppose that you do not issue the powerful 'make allseq' command, but that you want to create one-by-one the libraries and executables.

Then, for the sequential version, you must create :

- the lapack library (make lapack)
- the numrecip library (make numrecip)
- the new FFT library (make fftnew)
- the perl scripts (make perl)
- and on some platforms, the blas library (make blas)

Alternatively, the libraries can be created at once by issuing 'make libs'.

Then, you can issue 'make abinis' to make the sequential version of abinit, and 'make newsp' to make newsp, the wavefunction translator. The latter is needed for different tests of abinis (see below). You can also issue 'make mrgddb' to make the code that merge the derivative databases, 'make anaddb' to make the code that analyze interatomic force constant, 'make aim' for the Bader analysis utility, 'make cut3d' for the analyzer of three-dimensional density, potential or wavefunction files...

In order to get a transferable executable on Intel/Linux machines, it might be needed to generate a static BLAS library. For this purpose, issue 'make blas'. Be consistent with this choice, at the level of the 'makefile_macros' file. This possibility is also used for the Fujitsu machines.

Informations needed to generate the parallel version of ABINIT can be found in the abinit-x.x.x/Infos/paral_use file.

Suppose that something is going wrong in one of the above-mentioned steps, then, you can issue one of the 'clean_xxx' keywords (those mentioned by typing 'make') to clean the directory where something wrong happened.

With a bit of luck, you will succeed to generate the executables. You are ready to perform the tests.

In some cases, one wish to keep the binaries for different platforms in the same abinit-x.x.x directory. It is possible to make the compilation execute in such a way that the result is stored in a machine-dependent subdirectory. Prior to the compilation on one platform, issue :

> make bindir

Thanks to this command, a 'tmp_bindir' file will be created, containing the definition of a variable $(BINDIR). Usually, this variable will be BinAbinit/machine_architecture , where machine_architecture is the result of the execution of the `arch` command on the platform. This definition will be included in the make mechanism, and all the binaries will be put in $(BINDIR). For the compilation on another platform, the 'make bindir' command must be performed again, before compilation, and the binaries generated by that other compilation will be put in the corresponding directory. It is also possible to change the tmp_bindir file, to define another location, not obtained by the `arch` command. Note that, if any, the cleaning will be directed to the $(BINDIR) directory, which is the expected behaviour. However, presently, the tests (internal as well as v1, and others) CANNOT use the executables in the machine-dependent location : if the tests are to be done, one must first copy the proper executable in the abinit-x.x.x directory.

## How to make the internal tests ? (sequential version only)

The abinis code has five small internal tests, that can be issued automatically, and that check themselves whether the results that have been obtained are right or wrong. At most 3 MB of memory is required, and 1 MB of disk space. PERL must be installed on your machine for these tests to work. You can get PERL from http://www.perl.org . In the DOS/Windows case, perl.exe MUST be accessible through the DOS PATH

You can begin with the test number 1. Simply issue the command :

> make test1

It will run during a few seconds. It will first print

> cd Test_in; Run 1
> Built-in test 1 will be run through dotest script
> dotest: Starting built-in test 1
> ../abinis < test1.files > test1.log

then, you will eventually (if you are on a slow machine) see different instances of the status file, like the following :

> Status file, with repetition rate 49 , status number 99

> Level abinit : call gstate
> Level gstate : call brdmin
> Level brdmin : call scfcv_ini
> Level scfcv : call vtorho
> istep = 2
> Level vtorho : compute rhog

then, the important information is as follows :

> Status file, reporting on test 1

> OK for total energy
> OK for nuclei positions
> OK for forces
> OK for stresses

This means that the internal test 1 ran successfully. If you do not get this message, then the executables were not properly generated, or there is a problem with the make and scripts that drive the internal test. In this case, after having tried to solve the problem by yourself, you should contact somebody in the ABINIT group.

Note : the script detects the end of the run by using the 'ps' command following by a 'grep' command. This can lead to strange effects if a file whose name contain 'abinis' is currently visualized, or if another job is running under a name that contains 'abinis'.
So, close your files before running the tests, and also check that there are no running jobs whose name contains 'abinis'.

Supposing test1 was OK, then you have to issue the command 'make tests'.

The test 1 will be done once more, followed by the 4 other internal tests. Again, we hope that you will get the positive diagnostics for the other tests. Altogether, these tests are about 50 sec on a Intel/PIII 450 MHz machine where no other job is running.

For further information on these internal tests, see the file abinit-x.x.x/Test_in/README .

You might now read the new user's guide, in order to learn how to use the code. This is useful if you consider that the installation has been successful, or if you want to continue the tests.

## How to make the other tests (case 1 only)?

(Case 1 only, since in case 2, only the minimal testing tools have been transferred)

Although it is possible to make the other tests without knowing really how to use the code (since all steps involved - the run and subsequent analysis - are done automatically), it is the right time to read the new user's guide.

After this reading, you should look at the subdirectory Test_fast, and then Test_v1 (and perhaps Test_cpu), where tests of the sequential version of ABINIT (abinis) can be done automatically. For tests of the parallel version (abinip) see the directory Test_paral, as well as the abinit-x.x.x/Infos/paral_use file. For tests of the response function features of abinis, and for tests of mrgddb and anaddb, see the subdirectories Test_v2. Test_v3 and Test_v4 presents further tests of recently implemented features of ABINIT.

In order to execute these tests, you will need a larger disk space than for the simple installation of the code (the total additional disk space required is on the order of 100 MB). After having checked the results of the tests, the user can easily retain the output files in a compressed form, and get rid off the wavefunction files by issuing

> make decrease_size_tests

in the abinit-x.x.x directory. Separate commands are available for each of the Test directories.

You might as well remove all working directories by issuing

> make clean_tests

in the abinit-x.x.x directory. Separate commands are available for each of the Test directories. This command remove all the subdirectories that begin with '_', which is the case of the working subdirectories. If you want to keep some of them, remove their initial '_', then issue make clean_tests. You can still decrease the size of such renamed directories by the make decrease_size_tests command.

1) Test_fast (for the sequential version only)

This subdirectory contains a basic set of tests of the code, aimed at testing whether the code is coherent in time (successive versions), and exercising many parts of the code. However, they do not examine its accuracy on physical problems, mainly because the number of plane waves used is too small, and some tests are not run to self-consistent convergence. 32 MB of memory should be enough for these tests (with no other application running, however).
Read the abinit-x.x.x/Test_fast/README file carefully (at least the beginning).
To run the tests, simply issue, in the main directory :

> (RunTests machine_name fast) >& log

where machine_name will usually be the name of your machine (any other character string is fine, however).

The script will create a directory whose name will be build from the machine name and today's date. All the results will be in that directory. The output files will be automatically compared, thanks to a 'diff' command, to a set of reference files, either from the (old) Plane_Wave code (the corresponding difference files are prefixed by 'diff.'), or from a recent run of the ABINIT code (the corresponding difference files are prefixed by 'difnew.').

In addition to 'diff', another comparing tool called 'fldiff' -for 'floating diff'- is also used. It treats in a more clever way the comparison of floating numbers between the output files and the reference files. As used presently in the 'RunTests' script, for each run, only one single file, called 'fldiff.report', will be produced. If for one test case, the two files differ by the number of lines, the 'fldiff.report' file will report that it cannot compare the two files. Usually this problem will be seen at the level of 'command signs' appearing sometimes in the first column of the output files, so a typical error message (announcing something went wrong) will be:

> Case_1
> 22
> The diff analysis cannot be pursued : the command sign differ.

By contrast, it will identify the floating numbers and ignore their differences if they are within some prescribed tolerance (fldiff is kind of an expert system in this respect : for example, it is able to ignore the differences in timings). If everything goes fine for a test, fldiff should identify only the differences in :

- the dates of execution (eventually) ;
- the version numbers (eventually) ;
- the platform description (eventually) ;
- the overall execution time (this is ALWAYS printed, even without differences).

So, a successful execution of one test case may be announced as follows in the fldiff.report file :

> Case_1
> 2
> < Version 4.3.2 of ABINIT
> > Version 4.3.0 of ABINIT
> 5
> < Starting date : Fri 27 Jan 2004.
> > Starting date : Sat 31 Jan 2004.
> 202
> < +Overall time at end (sec) : cpu= 7.1 wall= 8.0
> > +Overall time at end (sec) : cpu= 7.3 wall= 8.0

The fldiff.report file will have one such section for each Test_case that was run. It begins with the number of the test case, then includes a few blocks of three lines: the number of the line where something is happening, followed by the content of the two lines.

If differences (besides those described above) are found, then there is a problem, or the double precision tolerance needs to be adjusted (as time goes, this should become better). More information on the fldiff script can be found in the abinit-x.x.x/Utilities/fldiff file. If needed, you can send by e-mail the fldiff.report to the ABINIT group for help understanding it and fixing possible bugs.

2) Test_v1

This directory contains tests built in the same spirit as those in the Test_fast directory, but that exercise features not present in the Plane_Wave code, like the treatment of metals, the GGA, the new pseudopotentials, the multi-dataset mode, the cell parameters optimization, and the spatial symmetry groups database.
These were developed during the development time of the version 1 of ABINIT.
Of course, the automatic difference procedure only compares to recent runs of the ABINIT code. As for the 'fast' test cases, the fldiff.report file is also available. 64 MB of memory should be enough for these tests (with no other application running, however). Usually, these tests are run with the sequential version of the code only. It is possible to make them using the parallel version of the code, but this need to define the COMMAND_PAR macro in your makefile_macros file.

3) Test_v2

This directory contains tests built in the same spirit as those in the Test_fast directory, but that exercise features not present in the Plane_Wave code, nor in version 1 of the ABINIT package, mainly the response function features, and the use of the mrgddb and anaddb codes. Again, the automatic difference procedure only compares to recent runs of the ABINIT code. As for the 'fast' test cases, the fldiff.report file is also available. 64 MB of memory should be enough for these tests (with no other application running, however).

4) Test_v3 and Test_v4

This directory contains tests built in the same spirit as those in the Test_fast directory, but that exercise features not present in the Plane_Wave code, nor in version 1 or 2 of the ABINIT package, noticeably the use of the GW code, the utilities Cut3d, AIM, .., the PAW ... . Again, the automatic difference procedure only compares to recent runs of the ABINIT code. As for the 'fast' test cases, the fldiff.report file is also available. 64 MB of memory should be enough for these tests (with no other application running, however).

5) Test_cpu (for the sequential version only)

This subdirectory contains the scripts, and input files needed for testing the cpu time, either on progressively finer real space grids, or on progressively bigger unit cells. Please read the README file of this directory. Also for this suite of tests, you have simply to issue

> (RunTests machine_name cpu) >& log

Unlike in the previous case, many directories will be created (more than 10 in the present version). Their name begins with the test name (A1, A2, A3, A4, B1, B2, B3, B4, C3, D3), and is followed by the machine name and the date. Inside these directories, many runs are done.
There is a 'report' file that summarizes the timing of the different runs, and there is a 'diff' file, that compares these timings with the reference (output files from a PII at 450 MHz, usually). The structure of these tests is more complex than that of the Test_fast and Test_v1 directories. The tools used are the 'serie' scripts (serieA,serieB, serieC and serieD) as well as the 'getrep' script. For an explanation, contact the ABINIT group. For the largest tests (B and D series), up to 200 MB of central memory are required.

6) Test_paral (needs both abinis and abinip)

This directory contains tests built in the same spirit as those in the Test_fast directory, but that exercise the parallel version of the ABINIT code.
The 'Run' script in that directory (not in the main directory) considers one of the different input files, and for this file, it will perform first a sequential run (using abinis), then use the parallel code (abinip) with one processing node, then perform different parallel runs with an increasing number of processing nodes. As for the other series of test, the diff and the fldiff utilities are used automatically.

7) How to run all the sequential tests, or a subset of these suited for developers ?

In the main directory, it is possible to issue

> make tests_allseq >& log

in which case, all the tests in Test_fast, Test_v1, Test_v2, Test_v3, Test_v4, Tutorial, Test_cpu and the sequential tests of Test_paral will be issued. The choice of the name of the machine is not let to the user : it is "test" .

Also in the main directory, if you issue

> make tests_dev >& log

the tests in Test_fast, Test_v1, Test_v2, Test_v3, Test_v4, and the sequential tests of Test_paral will be issued. As in the preceeding case, the name of the machine if fixed ("test"). In addition, a summary file, containing all the fldiff report files is created, then tarred and gzipped. It is given the name summary_tests.tar.gz, and might be sent by mail for the merge of a new contribution.

## Things that are NOT in the installation files.

- Pseudopotentials :
  The installation files contain a few pseudopotentials, for testing purposes. But many other pseudopotential have been generated. There exist presently two complete sets of ready-to-use LDA pseudopotentials, for the whole periodic table : those generated by Doug Allan and Alex Khein for the plane_wave code, and those published by Hartwigsen, Goedecker and Hutter (Phys. Rev. B 58, 3641 (1998)). Also, the Fritz-Haber-Institute code, that is freely available at http://www.FHI-Berlin.MPG.DE/th/fhi98md/fhi98PP, can be used to generate LDA as well as GGA pseudopotentials, that can be read by the code after minor modifications, see the Web site.

- The Web site https://www.abinit.org contains many other things ...
  The benchmarks results, the mailing lists, ...
- The community Web site http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/~erwin/abinit is an additional source of information

## For advanced users : how to make the installation files ?

Case 1 (source and tests) : you want to produce the file abinit-x.x.x.tar.gz

Here, for example, we suppose that you have modified the code (in order to implement a new feature). This modification works, so it is time to synchronize with the main code. If the modifications are rather large, it is worthwhile to send your complete version to the ABINIT group.

First, you should give a version number to your version. Simply modify the appropriate variable in the Makefile file of your abinit-x.x.x directory. Then issue

> make new_version_number

to touch the few routines that need this version number, then

> make allseq

as for the installation.

When you think everything can be frozen, you must issue

> make abtargz

That's all ..

Case 2 (version for a specific platform) : you want to contribute a specific binary executable e.g. you work on a SGI machine, and want to produce the file sgi_r14000-x.x.x.tar.gz

The requirements are : all executables (abinis, newsp and abinip) are working, and you have not erased one of the files needed for the tests, both sequential and parallel. Also, the version number is supposed correct (see above to modify it). In this case, simply issue :

> make sgi_r14000

For the sequential version only, or the parallel version only, use

> make sgi_r14000_seq

or

> make sgi_r14000_par

For the other platforms, use the appropriate platform name, mentioned at the beginning of the present document, or obtained by typing

> make dev

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