Obtaining the code

The latest version of MRCPP is available on GitHub:

$ git clone git@github.com:MRChemSoft/mrcpp.git

Building the code

Prerequisites

  • g++-5.4 or later (std=c++14)

  • CMake version 3.11 or higher.

  • Eigen version 3.3 or higher.

  • BLAS (optional)

Configuration

The configuration and build process is managed through CMake, and a setup script is provided for the configuration step. MRCPP’s only dependency is Eigen3, which will be downloaded at configure time unless it is already available on the system. If you have a local version not under the system path, you can point to it before running setup:

$ export EIGEN3_ROOT=/path/to/eigen3
$ ./setup [options] [<builddir>]

The setup script will create a directory called <builddir> (default build) and run CMake. There are several options available for the setup, and the most important are:

--cxx=<CXX>

C++ compiler [default: g++]

--omp

Enable OpenMP parallelization [default: False]

--mpi

Enable MPI parallelization [default: False]

--enable-tests

Enable tests [default: True]

--enable-examples

Enable tests [default: False]

--type=<TYPE>

Set the CMake build type (debug, release, relwithdebinfo, minsizerel) [default: release]

--prefix=<PATH>

Set the install path for make install

-h --help

List all options

Compilation

After successful configuration, the code is compiled using the make command in the <builddir> directory:

$ cd <builddir>
$ make

Running tests

A set of tests is provided with the code to verify that the code compiled properly. To compile the test suite, add the --enable-tests option to setup, then run the tests with ctest:

$ ./setup --enable-tests build
$ cd build
$ make
$ ctest

Running examples

In addition to the test suite, the code comes with a number of small code snippets that demonstrate the features and the API of the library. These are located in the examples directory. To compile the example codes, add the enable-examples option to setup, and the example executables can be found under <build-dir>/bin/. E.g. to compile and run the MW projection example:

$ ./setup --enable-examples build-serial
$ cd build-serial
$ make
$ bin/projection

The shared memory parallelization (OpenMP) is controlled by the environment variable OMP_NUM_THREADS (make sure you have compiled with the --omp option to setup). E.g. to compile and run the Poisson solver example using 10 CPU cores:

$ ./setup --enable-examples --omp build-omp
$ cd build-omp
$ make
$ OMP_NUM_THREADS=10 bin/poisson

To run in MPI parallel, use the mpirun (or equivalent) command (make sure you have compiled with the --mpi option to setup, and used MPI compatible compilers, e.g. --cxx=mpicxx). Only examples with an mpi prefix will be affected by running in MPI:

$ ./setup --cxx=mpicxx --enable-examples --mpi build-mpi
$ cd build-mpi
$ make
$ mpirun -np 4 bin/mpi_send_tree

To run in hybrid OpenMP/MPI parallel, simply combine the two above:

$ ./setup --cxx=mpicxx --enable-examples --omp --mpi build-hybrid
$ cd build-hybrid
$ make
$ export OMP_NUM_THREADS=5
$ mpirun -np 4 bin/mpi_send_tree

Note that the core of MRCPP is only OpenMP parallelized. All MPI data or work distribution must be done manually in the application program, using the tools provided by MRCPP (see the Parallel section of the API).

Pilot code

Finally, MRCPP comes with a personal sandbox where you can experiment and test new ideas, without messing around in the git repository. In the pilot/ directory you will find a skeleton code called mrcpp.cpp.sample. To trigger a build, re-name (copy) this file to mrcpp.cpp:

$ cd pilot
$ cp mrcpp.cpp.sample mrcpp.cpp

Now a corresponding executable will be build in <builddir>/bin/mrcpp-pilot/. Feel free to do whatever you like in your own pilot code, but please don’t add this file to git. Also, please don’t commit any changes to the existing examples (unless you know what you’re doing).

MRCPP as a dependency

Building MRCPP provides CMake configuration files exporting the libraries and headers as targets to be consumed by third-party projects also using CMake:

$ ./setup --prefix=$HOME/Software/mrcpp
$ cd build
$ make
$ ctest
$ make install

Now libraries, headers and CMake configuration files can be found under the given prefix:

mrcpp/
├── include/
│   └── MRCPP/
├── lib64/
│   ├── libmrcpp.a
│   ├── libmrcpp.so -> libmrcpp.so.1*
│   └── libmrcpp.so.1*
└── share/
    └── cmake/

As an example, the pilot sample can be built with the following CMakeLists.txt:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.11 FATAL_ERROR)

project(UseMRCPP LANGUAGES CXX)

set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 14)
set(CMAKE_CXX_EXTENSIONS OFF)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)

include(GNUInstallDirs)

set(CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR})
set(CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR})
set(CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR})

find_package(MRCPP CONFIG REQUIRED)
get_property(_loc TARGET MRCPP::mrcpp PROPERTY LOCATION)
message(STATUS "Found MRCPP: ${_loc} (found version ${MRCPP_VERSION})")

add_executable(mrcpp mrcpp.cpp)
target_link_libraries(mrcpp
  PUBLIC
  MRCPP::mrcpp
  )

set_target_properties(mrcpp
  PROPERTIES
    MACOSX_RPATH ON
    SKIP_BUILD_RPATH OFF
    BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH OFF
    INSTALL_RPATH "$ORIGIN/../${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}"
    INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH ON
  )

This will set up the include paths and library paths correctly. During configuration you will have to specify where the CMake configuration file for MRCPP is located:

$ cmake -H. -Bbuild -DMRCPP_DIR=$HOME/Software/share/cmake/MRCPP