Software prerequisites

• Automatic installation
• Manual installation

The following software packages are required for building HALMD. For an automated installation procedure, refer to the next section, Automatic installation. A detailed step-by-step guide for manual installation is given in section Manual installation.

• NVIDIA CUDA toolkit ≥ 3.1

  Note

  Versions ≥ 2.2 are supported as well, but as they are incompatible with the GCC compiler ≥ 4.4, we recommend to use at least 3.1 with this bug is fixed.

  Please refer to the installation instructions shipped with the toolkit.

• CMake ≥ 2.8.0 with a patch for native CUDA support

  The build process of HALMD depends on CMake, a cross-platform, open-source build system.

  Note

  This patch adds native CUDA source file compilation and linking support to CMake and is not to be confused nor compatible with the CUDA module in CMake 2.8.

• Git ≥ 1.5.6.2

  The source code of HALMD is managed by Git, a fast and efficient, distributed version control system. Git is available for many operating systems and their flavours.

• Boost C++ Libraries ≥ 1.43.0

  In addition, the proposed Boost.Log library is needed.

  The C++ part of HALMD makes deliberate use of libraries in the Boost C++ collection.

• Lua interpreter ≥ 5.1

  A simulation with HALMD is setup and configured by means of the Lua scripting language. The fast and lightweight Lua interpreter is embedded in the HALMD executable.

• HDF5 C++ Library >= 1.8

  “HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and managing data. It supports an unlimited variety of datatypes, and is designed for flexible and efficient I/O and for high volume and complex data.”

To optionally generate documentation in HTML and PDF format:

• Sphinx documentation generator ≥ 0.6.1

  “Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation.”

• LaTeX including pdflatex and dvipng

• graphviz