I decided to place this in a separate thread so it is easier for more casual readers of the list to see.
I have generated a Docker build of FEniCS 1.5 from the tarballs. Otherwise, it is built against the standard Ubuntu LTS packages. You can run it now using e.g.: docker run -i -t fenicsproject/stable-src:1.5.0 /bin/bash Download will be around 1.8GB, so make sure you're on a decent connection. You can see the Dockerfile here: https://bitbucket.org/garth-wells/fenics-virtual/src/8f3a8c6a529eb2c035054fe19232dcd16b50a469/docker/stable-src/Dockerfile?at=vagrant-docker Additional Docker-related news: - Patrick Farrell and I have had recent success running a FEniCS training day at Cambridge using a fleet of Amazon Web Services machines hosting a Docker container. Users were up and running with a full build of dolfin-adjoint on a quad-core machine within minutes of starting the session. - I will soon have results showing the MPI scaling performance on a shared-memory 120 core Xeon machine installed at the University of Luxembourg HPC facility. If anyone is interested in improving the OpenMP scalability of DOLFIN then it may be possible to arrange access to this machine which I believe is still relatively rare. - Finally, I have some initial work that launches a CoreOS cluster (http://coreos.com) running off-the-shelf FEniCS docker containers on any compatible cloud infrastructure e.g. Amazon Web Services. Currently I am working on tying the fleet together so that they can communicate via MPI. So soon it will be possible for anyone with an AWS account to launch their own miniature cluster running FEniCS. My thanks again to Garth Wells and Lizao Li for their help on various aspects of this work. Kind regards, ----- Dr. Jack S. Hale Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow University of Luxembourg Campus Kirchberg G005 Phone +352 44 66 44 5236 [email protected] Latest publications and conferences: http://goo.gl/rNiISG ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7216-861X Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Fx9lQ7MAAAAJ&hl=de _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
