[FLASH-USERS] installation of Flash4.3!

[John ZuHone]

Hi Scott and all,

I agree with all of Nathan's points, but I will chime in here with a couple of others.

If you have a FLASH-specific question, it's likely I will try to jump on it, but Nathan is right, just about any of the active developers could handle most issues.

The main reason for that is that the FLASH frontend is very mature, and it is much more likely that if you encounter a bug it is not in the FLASH-specific code but instead is somewhere else in yt. We strive to keep things pretty modular and all of the machinery that handles AMR codes is common to the different frontends that are appropriate (e.g. FLASH, Enzo, Athena, etc.).

But if you have specific issues I would not hesitate to use one of the channels that Nathan suggested for reporting them.

Best,

John


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> On Aug 24, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm a yt developer and I thought I'd chime in here with advice.
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Scott Feister <sfeister at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone (and especially those using yt),
>> 
>> Robert mentioned yt as a good alternative to VisIt for FLASH analysis. I've had a good experience with it as well, although I have run into a few bugs along the way with re-sampling 3D adaptive mesh data (which may be yt, or may be the yt FLASH module). In the yt 3.3.1 user guide "Loading data: FLASH data" section (http://yt-project.org/doc/examining/loading_data.html#flash-data), it says:
>> 
>> FLASH HDF5 data is mostly supported and cared for by John ZuHone.
> 
> I guess this language isn't clear - John maintains the FLASH frontend, but the yt community as a whole maintains it, even when he's busy. 
>  
>> Is anyone else currently familiar with the internals of yt for FLASH HDF5 data? In other words (and John ZuHone, feel free to chime in), who should we reach out to with yt bugs in loading FLASH data?
> 
> yt bugs should be reported at our issue tracker:
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issues/new
> 
> If you can, when reporting bugs please include a test script that exhibits an error, along with any error message or traceback you generate when running the script. Ancillary test datasets used in the script are also very useful for reproducing bugs, but we are mindful that often people are working with very large and/or proprietary datasets.
> 
> If you have general questions about yt, I'd encourage you to send them to our mailing list:
> 
> http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-users-spacepope.org
>  
>> Is there any documentation specific to the FLASH yt module that could be shared?
> 
> The page you linked to above is the only FLASH-specific documentation I'm aware of. if you think it should be expanded or is missing some information please let us know.
> 
> yt is a community-developed project and thrives on the contributions of users. If you spot anything that yt is doing incorrectly or see an error or inconsistency in our documentation, please let us know so we can fix it or, if you have the time or inclination, please also feel free to fix issues you come across in yt and submit a pull request. Community contributions in the form of isssue reports and pull requests are extremely helpful. Documentation improvements from newcomers are extremely valuable as well, since it's all too easy to write documentation that assumes too much background.
> 
> -Nathan
>  
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Scott
>> 
>> Scott Feister, Ph.D.
>> Post-doctoral Researcher, FLASH Center for Computational Science
>> University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
>> 
>>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Tom <madtom1999 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 08/08/16 13:07, Mohammed Ahmed Fathella Nasr Shihab wrote:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> I have installed Flash4.3 on ubuntu machine (12.04 LTS).
>>>> I can run the Sedov explosion problem as shown in FLASH User’s Guide, however, a free IDL (interactive data language which is compatible with IDL 7.1) gives a  segmentation default and can not visualize the data.
>>>> Could you please tell me how to install VisIt! Is it better to install FLASH4.3 on later ubuntu versions, especially, I will use FLASH4.3 to simulate the HEDP ?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks a lot. Best regards,
>>>> Mohammed
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> p.s. The  installed cmake version on my machine  is 2.8.7 and  HYPRE needs later versions of cmake!
>>>> 
>>> get your version (11.04) from https://wci.llnl.gov/simulation/computer-codes/visit/executables
>>> and then
>>> sudo ./visit-install2_10_3 linux-x86_64-ubuntu11 /usr/local/visit
>>> Tom
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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