jbharter / xyce-deps-docker

Build a docker image with Xyce dependencies prebuilt!

Xyce Dependency Build

Introduction

Xyce, the high performance analog circuit simulator is obnoxiously hard to build. For those that just want to hit the ground running, I have created a dockerfile and a few bash scripts that can build all of the dependencies in a conveniently packaged and pre build docker image.

Caveat: You still need to get the Xyce Source. I believe it has export restrictions.

Xyce has several dependencies, thoroughly documented on their site. These include:

• CMake
• HDF5
• NetCDF
• Trilinos

Some of these have options for parallel distributions for MPI implementations. For the purposes of this image, I have built both the serial and parallel versions of the softwares.

There is also a script for actually building Xyce once you've obtained a tar.gz

Travis confirms that the image builds and is available on docker hub, all you need to do is get a Xyce distribution.

Usage

You'll need docker installed, and the docker daemon running.

• With a gzipped tarball of Xyce (6.8 in this example) ... (ex: 'Xyce-6.8.tar.gz') Just run the docker image build from the prebuild image.

  docker build -t [SomeImageTag] -f XyceBuildDockerfile

  This could take a minute, it will compile both the serial and parallel versions of Xyce 6.8

• Launch a (bash shell in a new) container from the freshly minted image with docker run -i -t [SomeImageTag] /bin/bash

• Feeling sluggish? docker run -i -t [SomeImageTag] /bin/bash --memory 2048 --cpus 4