[MAP] MARS15(2012) on BNL computers

[Nikolai Mokhov]

Hi all,

I have successfully installed and tested the newest MARS15(2012) of December 2012 on BNL's 
cluster/spot in /home3/nmokhov/restricted/mars15
and rlnxsp01 in /u0b/mokhov/restricted/mars15

The only new feature I could not check on both the clusters is the ROOT geometry, because I couldn't find the required ROOT version 5.32 or 5.34 installed there. Let me know once it is there and I will add this powerful feature.

I have checked all other new modules including EGS5 and ENDF/B.
  
1. Update your .bashrc in accordance with that in my home directory (MARS, EGS and ENDF/B parts; we would need to define there corresponding ROOT variables once the ROOT is in place).
 
2 . Copy to your area GNUmakefile, *INP*, m1512.f, marsmain.f and xsdir files as well as the auxiliary directory. The latter contains the newest manual, tutorials, other documentation along with three "How-to" subdirectories on: nuclide inventory; preparation, submission and averaging results of multiple jobs; and rather generic .bashrc example.

As always, to reproduce a sample problem of that in my directory just say

make
time ./rmars-bnab-linux &            for a basic mode

or

make rmars-mcnp-linux

time ./rmars-mcnp-linux &            for a mode with ENDF/B  x-sections for neutrons below 14 MeV

To activate the ROOT or/and EGS5 modules, uncomment corresponding lines at the beginning of GNUmakefile.

Good luck!

Nikolai


-----Original Message-----
From: Harold Kirk [mailto:hkirk at bnl.gov] 
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 9:16 AM
To: Nikolai Mokhov
Subject: FW: Checking mars15

Nikolai,   We have had a significant upgrade of the BNL ITD cluster
software.  As you can see below, this has resulted in a complete cessation of operations for the MARS efforts on this machine.  It appears that the best solution is for you to rebuild.  Please look into this a soon a practical as we are currently dead in the water with our MARS simulations work.  Thanks.


Harold G. Kirk                               e-mail: hkirk at bnl.gov
Dept. of Physics, 901A                Voice:  (631) 344-3780
Brookhaven National Lab           Fax:    (631) 344-3248
Upton, NY 11973-5000                http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/kirk

-----Original Message-----
From: Ding, Xiaoping [mailto:xding at bnl.gov]
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 9:47 AM
To: Berg, J Scott; Harold Kirk; Kamal Sayed Abdalgaffar, Hisham
Subject: RE: Checking mars15

Hi Harold,

Could you please send an request to Mokhov to rebuild his mars15 on BNL new system?

Thanks,

Xiaoping
 
________________________________________
From: Berg, J Scott
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 9:28 AM
To: Harold Kirk; Ding, Xiaoping; Kamal Sayed Abdalgaffar, Hisham
Subject: Checking mars15

First of all, mars15 was built with the gcc/gfortran 4.1 compilers, whereas the new system has the gcc/gfortran 4.4 compilers. There is a fortran library compatability issue which prevents a successful link of the new library. One could have ITD install the gfortran 4.1 compatability library, but this has a good chance of creating problems due to linking against two fortran libraries which may or may not get along well. There's also another problem with missing libraries in Nikolai's tk version, but that is fixable by either installing the missing library or just using the system tk library. I think Mokhov really needs to rebuild on the new system.

One temporary workaround is to install a Scientific Linux 5 VM on your desktop/laptop, and build your executables there.

Three of the mcnp datasets seem to be inaccessible: uresa and xsdir.
Intentionally or not, read access for "others" has been removed. These sets are not in Mokhov's directory; he just has a link to the actual location, which is a user kinyip.

-Scott