The Open System for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (OpenSees) is a software framework for simulating the seismic response of structural and geotechnical systems. OpenSees has been developed as the computational platform for research in performance-based earthquake engineering at the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center.
| Version | module name |
|---|---|
| 3.3.0 | opensees/3.3.0 |
Example
Building your own OpenSees
Not updated for version 3.3.0
OpenSees is not an easy package to build on *nix systems. OpenSees bundles various linear algebra packages such as BLAS, CBLAS, ARPACK, LAPACK, various components of SUITESPARSE, METIS and SuperLU. Many of these libraries are useful for scientific computing and are probably already installed on HPC resources or can be installed from package managers on various linux distros. It's a waste of time and resources to duplicate these libraries within OpenSees that may or not be updated with new features and bug fixes. To build OpenSees, download the following Makefile.def to the OpenSees directory
Uncomment the following line
#HOME = /zhome/alp514/source/corona2-build
and replace it with the path to the directory where OpenSees is downloaded. If you leave the file as is then OpenSees is expected in your home directory. For some reason, these script does not create the directories where the executable and libraries are stored, so create these directories
mkdir $HOME/bin $HOME/lib
Make sure that the directories in Makefile.def have the same name as your OpenSees file.For example
FE = $(HOME)/(Name of your OpenSees file)/SRC BLAsdir = $(HOME)/(Name of your OpenSees file)/OTHERS/BLAS
Load the intel/16.0.3 module
module load intel/16.0.3
Then type
make
It may take awhile to compile, get a coffee!
After it is finished, you will need to create a new module for this version of OpenSees. Download the module file
and save it to the module folder. Edit the OPENSEESHOME variable in the file and set it as the directory where your OpenSees file is located.