Technical Requirements

Participants must bring their own laptop computer with ASPECT installed prior to the workshop. Internet speed and bandwidth are limited.

Specifics:

• laptop with Linux (ideally a recent ubuntu) or OSX (latest OS and latest xcode installed)
• install deal.II 8.5.0: http://dealii.org/download.html
• Linux box: Please install 8.5 with all necessary dependencies (MPI, p4est, Trilinos). You can use candi: https://github.com/dealii/candi 
• Mac: If 8.5.0 does not work, go back to 8.4.
• Windows machine: Please download Virtualbox and install deal.II in a linux image. Image can be directly obtained from: http://www.math.clemson.edu/~heister/dealvm/

• install the most recent ASPECT development version
• download a recent manual.pdf:  http://www.math.clemson.edu/~heister/manual.pdf
• test that ASPECT runs

if you are new to ASPECT, work through the 2016 ASPECT tutorial:

• videos
• files

Make sure you can run the first cookbook files and visualize the output

Please see: https://geodynamics.org/cig/software/aspect/

For help, email: aspect-devel@geodynamics.org