Finite Element Modeling Technology

This is a research and teaching code for the finite element method. It works in parallel on Windows, Mac and Linux. It uses minimal fancy programing like object-oriented programming and pointers to pointers to pointers. The intent is that engineers can read it and follow along.

Windows

Software required

• CMake-GUI (https://cmake.org/download/)
• Visual Studio 2017 (community version, free with Microsoft MPI option, see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56727)

To compile

• download zip file of project and extract
• use CMake-GUI point CMake to FemTech source code and also specify the build to be in the same location as source but in build (i.e., FemTech/build)
• select "configure"
• For parallel:
  • Enable MPI and Examples then select example to turn on, e.g. ex1
  • configure again and generate makefile and select open project
  • Once Visual Studio opens up, right click on ex1 "solution" (on right hand side) and select "Set as Startup Project"
  • Then right click again the ex1 solution again and select Properties
  • Under the Configuration Properties-> Debugging, set "Command" to C:\Program Files\Microsoft MPI\Bin\mpiexec.exe
  • Under the Configuration Properties-> Debugging, set "Command Arguments" to -n 2 "$(TargetPath)" mixed-hex-tete.k (where the .k file is the input file in the ex1 directory)
  • Then go to top menu bar and select Debug->Start Without Debugging
• For Serial:
  • Configure using defaults, but turn on examples (for at least example 1)
  • Configure again and generate makefile and select open project
  • Once Visual Studio opens up, right click on ex1 "solution" (on right hand side) and select "Set as Startup Project"
  • Then right click again the ex1 solution again and select Properties
  • Under the Configuration Properties-> Debugging, set "Command Arguments" to mixed-hex-tet.k (where the .k file is the input file in the ex1 directory)
  • Then go to top menu bar and select Debug->Start Without Debugging

Linux

To compile

• open terminal (navigate to desired directory)

  git clone https://github.com/PSUCompBio/FemTech
  cd FemTech
  mkdir build
  (on PSU ACI-I) module load cmake gcc/5.3.1 openmpi/1.10.1
  (on Amazon E2C) ...TBD
  cd bulid
  ccmake ..
  make -j8
  (for interactive parallel on ACI-B) qsub -A open -l walltime=1:00:00 -l nodes=1:ppn=2 -I
  

Mac OS

Software required

• Xcode with developer command line tools (https://www.embarcadero.com/starthere/berlin/mobdevsetup/ios/en/installing_the_xcode_command_line_tools_on_a_mac.html)

• CMake (https://cmake.org/download/)

  To compile

• open terminal (navigate to desired directory)

  git clone https://github.com/PSUCompBio/FemTech
  cd FemTech
  mkdir build
  cd bulid
  ccmake .. (configure as needed)
  make -j8