sPHENIX discussion of software

[David Morrison <dave AT bnl.gov>]

Hi all,

A couple of things – Martin’s VM image works just fine for me and that’s 
great, but I guess we need to decide on an (initial) standard environment.  
Can we settle on a much more recent GCC version (4.9.x or 5.x) and -std=c++11 
(or -std=c++14) by default?  Just the “auto” declaration by itself will 
enable us to write much cleaner code.

Dave

> On Aug 7, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Martin Purschke <purschke AT bnl.gov> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear sPHENIX Software aficionados,
> 
> last week at the SBU workfest and later at the simulations meeting, we
> kicked the idea around that we would make a number of ready-made virtual
> machines available that would allow anyone not set up on the RCF, or
> without access to the sPHENIX environment within the RCF, to quickly run
> sPHENIX simulations by running the VM.
> 
> You can look a Dave's and my presentation in the Indico page of the
> simulation meeting,
> https://indico.bnl.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1185
> 
> I had prepared a VM with all ingredients on board to run at least the
> tutorials from the workfest (the VM has *everything* you'd need for a
> full simulation effort). I had prepared the VM using VmWare, then cloned
> this machine to a VirtualBox environment.
> 
> The VirtualBox-VM can be found in downloadable form at
> 
> https://www.phenix.bnl.gov/WWW/p/draft/purschke/geantvm/
> 
> Right now you'll find a geant4vm2.ova "export" file in the area. The
> size is about 3.3G. If you have installed VirtualBox on your machine,
> you can download and then import the geant4vm2.ova file and have the
> same machine that I showcased at the Simulations meeting.
> 
> The machine starts in console mode since I don't want to mess with your
> X11 environment without you in control.  You can either log in and
> "startx", or become root and "telinit 5". Or you an permanently change
> the default run level to 5 once you see that it works.
> 
> The user is "geant4user", pw geant4%user, same for root.
> 
> I will add the corresponding VmWare machine to the same area over the
> weekend.
> 
> I'll update this list as progress is made - I will add recipes how to
> update the existing VM to get the lastest builds etc over time.
> 
> The machine was initially made on my Mac. I just downloaded and imported
> it in virtualbox on my Ubuntu Desktop in my office - works like a charm.
> 
> Please let me know if you run into trouble.
> 
> Best,
>       Martin
> 
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David Morrison  Brookhaven National Laboratory  phone: 631-344-5840
                                Physics Department, Bldg 510 C  email: 
dave AT bnl.gov
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