Technical Requirements

Participants must bring their own laptop computer with ASPECT installed prior to the workshop. We have good internet speeds this year but we will have about 35 participants with multiple devices.

last updated 4 June 2018

Specifics:

laptop with Linux (ideally a recent ubuntu) or OSX (latest OS and latest xcode installed)
install deal.II 8.5 or 9.0: http://dealii.org/download.html

Linux box: Please install deal.II with all necessary dependencies (MPI, p4est, Trilinos). You can use candi: https://github.com/dealii/candi
Mac OS X: Download the .dmg file for deal.II from the address above.
Windows machine: Please download VirtualBox; we will have a virtual machine for you to use on memory sticks. 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
create an account on github.com

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