SCIRun Installation Guide for SGI Irix

(v. 1.24.2)


Table of Contents

Introduction
Installation from Source Code
Downloading and Unpacking Sources
Building Internal Third Party Software
Building External Thirdparty Software
Building SCIRun
Before Starting SCIRun
Dynamic Compilation
Accessing Data Sets
Starting SCIRun
Getting Help
A. External Thirdparty Installation Instructions
BLAS (or ATLAS), and LAPACK Installation
Source Code
ATLAS
PETSc Installation
Introduction
Download and Unpack
Build
SCIRun PETSc Configure Options
The SolveMatrix Module
HDF5 Installation
Download and Unpack
Building
SCIRun HDF5 Configure Options
MDSplus Installation
MDSplus Configure Options
B. Single Source, Multiple Binaries
C. Local SCIRun Source Code Control Using CVS
Introduction
Importing a Release
Creating a Working Scirun Directory Tree
Common CVS Commands

Introduction

This guide provides instructions for installing SCIRun, its sample data sets, and SCIRun documentation on the SGI Irix platform. SCIRun may be installed from built from source code.

SGI Irix platform guidelines are listed in Table 1, “Platform Guidelines for SGI Irix”.

Disk space requirements are listed in Table 2, “Disk Space Requirements”.

Table 1. Platform Guidelines for SGI Irix

HardwareSoftware
  • MIPS R10000 (or more recent) CPU

  • 512 Mb (or more) RAM

  • Irix 6.5

  • MIPSpro compiler 7.3.1.1m (or later)

  • SCIRun's MatlabInterface package requires Matlab version 6 or version 7.

Table 2. Disk Space Requirements

Build with debugging support

1.3 GB

Optimized build

650 MB

SCIRun sample data (optional)

1 GB

Proceed to “Installation from Source Code” to build SCIRun from source code.