LISA Installation Instructions

  1. Download lisa2005*.tgz
    untar the archive and cd into the lisa/ directory.

  2. Provide the MACHINE DEPENDENT variables
    There are a few machine specific variables which will need to be manually set on your machine in order to compile LISA : e.g. c++ compiler, the fortran90 compiler, the links to lapack and blas. These variables need to be specified in the file Machine_Specific.d/HOST, where HOST is your HOST variable (if you do not know what this is, simply type "echo $HOST"; if HOST is not set, put export HOST=YOUR_HOST in ~/.bashrc). There is already a file present called EXAMPLE which contains a typical setup. This file should be copied to your hostname and modified accordingly. One can simply choose a compiler (like in CXX_COMPILER = GNU_GCC_3x) or define the compiler and its options more finely if needed (See examples).

  3. External Libraries
    LISA requires 2 or 3 external libraries which may or may not be installed on your machine: Blitz++, python, and ALPS (optional). In order to make installation easier, sources for Blitz++ and python are provided together with a script to install them automatically. This option can be bypassed if one already has these libraries present (see Machine_Specific.d/Parcollet for an example), but it is generally more straightforward if one simply recompiles them. To run the installation script do the following:

    bash install.bash

    NOTE: If you are linking to a previously compiled copy of blitz++, it must be compile with the same compiler which was used to compile LISA (ie. don't mix icc with gcc).

    In order to install ALPS, see the ALPS web site and documentation. ALPS is not necessary to run LISA, but one of its library may be used to compute the error in the QMC (not fully implemented yet).

  4. Environment variables. Add into your ~/.bashrc (other shells have not been tested)
    bash :
          export HOST=YOUR_HOST_NAME
          source PATH_TO_LISA/config.bash

    NOTE : HOST may already been defined.

    On RUPC (Rutgers clusters), add to ~/.bashrc :
          test -z "$PROFILEREAD" && . /etc/profile


  5. Compile LISA :
    1. Choose the solvers you want to compile : e.g.
      export SOLVER="QMC_HIRSCH_FYE"
    2. Then do : make depend;make
      Various options are printed by make.