Download Cactus
Requirements
| Required | Optional |
| Perl | MPI |
| C | C++ |
| CPP | F90/F77 |
| GNU make | ctags/etags |
| SVN |
Getting the Code
Method #1: GetComponents
Cactus is maintained using Subversion. The preferred method is to use the GetComponents script along with a thornlist as described below. We maintain a page of basic thornlists, but you can use your own customized thornlist.
Download
GetComponents and make sure it is executable.
curl -O https://raw.github.com/gridaphobe/CRL/master/GetComponents
chmod a+x GetComponents
To checkout the Cactus flesh and required thorns, choose and save one of
our
ThornLists
(or provide your own) and issue the command:
./GetComponents <thornlist-name>
Method #2: Subversion
Instead of using the GetComponents script, you can also check out Cactus and the Cactus Computational Toolkit using svn commands or another Subversion client. The main Cactus Subversion Server (svn.cactuscode.org) hosts several different repositories including different branches for the stable and development versions of Cactus.
The Subversion server can be use anonymously to checkout Cactus components. It supports both http and https connections, but only https can be used for authenticated logins, e.g. for commits to the repositories.
Check out the Cactus flesh:
svn co http://svn.cactuscode.org/flesh/trunk Cactus
Move to the arrangements directory of the Cactus installation and install the
required arrangements and thorns:
cd Cactus/arrangements
If you are using thorns other than those in the standard Cactus distributions
you will need to know the details for downloading or checking them out. Here
we just describe checking out from the Cactus distribution.
To checkout individual thorns (e.g. see our standard ThornLists):
svn co http://svn.cactuscode.org/arrangements/<arrangement>/<thorn>/trunk <thorn>
Method #3: Virtual Machine
Download VirtualBox here, then follow the installation instructions.wget http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~dcastl2/cOS.tgz
tar -xvvzf http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~dcastl2/cOS.tgz
You may then run VirtualBox. Create a new virtual machine. When prompted whether you want to use a new or existing hard disk, select 'Use Existing Hard Disk',
then select the CactusOS VirtualBox .vdi file from your VirtualBox VMs folder.
License
The Cactus Code is (C) Copyrighted by the individual Authors and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Most of the computational packages that come with it follow this license, but the authors of any thorn are free to follow any licensing they deem appropriate as long as they state it explicitly in their thorn distribution.