SCIRun for Linux provides support for BLAS/LAPACK, PETSc, Insight (ITK), MDSplus, and HDF5 software. External third party software provides SCIRun with additional capabilities:
LAPACK routines are used by SCIRun modules to perform SVD, eigenvalue, and eigenvector computations. BLAS is used by SCIRun modules for matrix multiplication. SCIRun modules will use less efficient algorithms if BLAS and LAPACK are not installed.
BLAS/LAPACK must be installed if PETSc support is desired.
The PETSC library provides equation solvers to SCIRun's SolveMatrix module. PETSC support is only available by building SCIRun from source code.
SCIRun's Insight package encapsulates ITK toolkit segmentation, registration, and image processing filters in SCIRun modules. The ITK toolkit is required by SCIRun's Insight package.
HDF5 libraries gives modules of SCIRun's DataIO package the ability to read HDF5 data.
MDSplus libraries gives modules of SCIRun's DataIO package the ability to read MDSplus data from an MDSplus server.
In external thirdparty software is desired, it must be installed before building SCIRun.
“ BLAS (or ATLAS), and LAPACK Installation ” provides installation instructions for BLAS and LAPACK.
“PETSc Installation” provides installation instructions for PETSC.
“Insight Toolkit (ITK) Installation” provides installation instructions for Insight.
“HDF5 Installation” provides installation instructions for the HDF5 libraries.
“MDSplus Installation” provides installation instructions for the MDSplus libraries.
Proceed to “Building SCIRun” after building external third party software.