[DONE] MIT Photonic-Bands (MPB)

Bob Day · 2006-06-19 17:43:35

Currently I'm doing research at a 2D photonic crystal and for this I also have to do simulations to check my measurements.

MIT Photonic-Bands (MPB) is the program for this task. It's only a beast to install which goes far beyond my linux skills.

If someone would like to give it a shot, I would be very gratefull.
Else I'm forced to switch to debian, since they have it in there repro.

Info: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php … onic_Bands
Installation: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php … stallation

PS: the program HDF5 is a requirement for me, the MPI isn't

tomk · 2006-06-19 18:55:45

Here's a rundown on the dependencies, and where they can be found (if at all):
blas - community
lapack - community
hdf5 - old forum thread
fftw2 - extra
readine - current (part of base install)
guile - extra
libctl - nowhere (yet)

In other words, the only ones that need building are hdf5, libctl, and mpb itself. As I wrote that old hdf5 PKGBUILD, I'll have another look at it, and update it if necessary. libctl and mpb appear to be bog-standard configure/make/make install builds, so I'll do PKGBUILDs for those as well.

Not such a beast now, right?

tomk · 2006-06-19 21:08:16

I have all the deps built and installed, and I'm about to build mpb, but I need guidance on the first two config options listed here, i.e.

--with-inv-symmetry
--with-hermitian-eps

The first one sounds like a good thing, but it's disabled by default, and the second is too specific to the application for me.

Bob Day · 2006-06-19 21:32:39

great!

--with-inv-symmetry, would be nice to have.
--with-hermitian-eps, it not something I will need for my simulations. But since it looks to me it gives some extra support in the program, I would say it's not a bad thing to build it in also.

tomk · 2006-06-20 22:33:10

Everything's built and installed now, and seems to be working- I have to say "seems to be", because I've only the vaguest idea what mpb actually does!

I'll put the PKGBUILDs for hdf5, libctl, and mpb in the AUR now - after that, it's over to you.

<edit>
They are here, here, and here.

Something to be aware of - my machine runs on the Arch testing repo, and is therefore using gcc-fortran 4.1.1. blas and lapack, however, are in the community repo, and were compiled with gcc-fortran 4.0.3. I had to rebuild them on my machine before mpb could make use of them. If you are not using the testing repo, these rebuilds should not be necessary.

Bob Day · 2006-06-21 12:13:56

Wonderfull, it build perfect for me, and I'm not using the testing repo....I'm very happy now

Perhaps I have to tip the creator of mpb that arch has a package for it now too.

tomk · 2006-06-21 13:12:02

Well, if you're happy, I'm happy. Couldn't have you degenerating into a Debian user, could we?!

And when you're rich and famous after the earth-shattering discovery you're going to make from 2D photonic crystal research, I'm confident you'll remember all those who got you there - or me, anyway.

Bob Day · 2006-06-21 17:24:24

Don't worry, I won't forget....tomk was it, right?

I noticed that I forgot to request the h5utils ( http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/H5utils ),
to make actually pictures from the .h5 files generated by hdf5.

So I gave it a shot myself and it seems to work:

# Contributor: Bob Day
pkgname=h5utils
pkgver=1.10
pkgrel=1       
pkgdesc="Set of utilities for visualization and conversion of scientific data"
depends=('hdf5')
source=(http://ab-initio.mit.edu/h5utils/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('de78cf9c9e69009f38fc9dcc5fcf4d87')
url="http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/H5utils"

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
}

tomk · 2006-06-21 21:43:34

Looking good, Bob - nice work.

Stick a Contributor line at the top, and you can put it in the AUR.

Bob Day · 2006-08-14 17:47:45

those who need mpb also might need at some point Meep ( http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Meep )

Two extra PKGBUILDs are needed besides most of the mpb PKGBUILDs. Here they are:

harminv/PKGBUILD:

# Contributor: Bob Day
pkgname=harminv
pkgver=1.3.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A program (and accompanying library) to solve the problem of harmonic inversion."
depends=('blas' 'lapack')
makedepends=('gcc-fortran')
source=(http://ab-initio.mit.edu/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('d3f49f1c90856b3b2e8b77dc4a99c37a')
url="http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Harminv"
license="GPL"

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  sed -i '/for ac_prog in g77/s|g95|g95 gfortran|' configure
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install || return 1
}

meep/PKGBUILD:

# Contributor: Bob Day
pkgname=meep
pkgver=0.9
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation software package developed at MIT to model electromagnetic systems."
depends=('harminv' 'hdf5' 'libctl')
makedepends=('gcc-fortran')
source=(http://ab-initio.mit.edu/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('70400d999537134d14c5f90d19fc0d81')
url="http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Meep"
license="GPL"

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  sed -i '/for ac_prog in g77/s|g95|g95 gfortran|' configure
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install || return 1
}

Radek · 2006-09-26 23:30:17

I think meep should be in AUR By the way, libctl in AUR need to be updated.

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