Introduction

Download

METIS is available at http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/overview.

Installation

Before installing Metis, load new version of cmake

• module load cmake

Download http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/fetch/sw/metis/metis-5.0.2.tar.gz (or whatever the latest stable release)

• Install Metis to $HOME/local/metis
• Put metis-5.0.2.tar.gz in /tmp/<some directory>, run:
  • tar xvfz metis-5.0.2.tar.gz
  • cd metis-5.0.2
• (Optional) To build Metis with 64-bit integers (to avoid integer overflow when using large number of particles), in include/metis.h change
• #define IDXTYPEWIDTH 32
• to
• #define IDXTYPEWIDTH 64
• • make config prefix=$HOME/local/metis
  • make install