This repository contains Dockerfiles that have been modified to build dealii and its dependencies using MPICH. This was done so that the images could be used to run ASPECT via shifter on HPC systems (specifically PAWSEY/Magnus).

More information is available here: https://support.pawsey.org.au/documentation/display/US/Containers. Alexis Espinosa from PAWSEY carried out most of this work. Ongoing updates to these Dockerfiles will be posted here.

You can download the MPICH based Dealii image using docker/shifter (and swapping out dansand for your profile):

docker/shifter pull dansand/dealii:v9.1.0-pre-gcc-mpichpawsey-fulldepsmanual

(check https://hub.docker.com/r/dansand/dealii/tags to verify that the tagname is still valid )

To build the MPICH-based Dealii image yourself, follow these instructions:

at docker-files/base/gcc-mpi:

docker build -t dansand/dealii_base:gcc-mpi .

at docker-files/full-deps/fulldepsmanual

docker build -t dansand/dealii_full-deps:fulldepsmanual .

^This is the one you want to modify in order to use the update versions of the Aspect dependecies (P4EST, etc.)

at docker-files/dealii/fulldepsmanual

docker build -t dansand/dealii:v9.1.0-pre-gcc-mpichpawsey-fulldepsmanual .

Started from @tjhei, edited by @luca-heltai

For each directory in this repository, one (or more) images are built either on dockerhub, or on travis.

In particular

• ubuntu16
• base

contain the startup OS and a minimal set of packages to compile serial builds. Both images are built automatically on dockerhub:

• https://hub.docker.com/r/dealii/ubuntu16/
• https://hub.docker.com/r/dealii/base/

The directory full-deps contain docker images that download and install all external dependencies for deal.II, using two possible different methods:

• fulldepscandi (gcc based)
• fulldepsmanual (clang based)

The building of these images is very expensive, and it is done manually, when important updates are available on the external libraries.

The directory dealii, finally, contains the Dockerfiles to build the actual deal.II library images, in particular we build several different types of deal.II images, each on its own tag. Tags are named based on the type of base system that is used to bootstrap the build:

• bare
• fulldepscandi
• fulldepsmanual

And for each of these, build types Debug, Release, or DebugRelease versions of the library are built, with the final images stored in

• dealii/dealii:ver-compiler-serialormpi-depstype-buildtype

You can pull any of the above image from dockerhub using (for example)

docker pull dealii/dealii:v8.4.2-clang-mpi-fulldepsmanual-debugrelease

after which you could run an interactive shell in it:

docker run -i -t dealii/dealii:v8.4.2-clang-mpi-fulldepsmanual-debugrelease

This will drop you in an isolated environment where you can experiment with deal.II.

A list of all available images is here: https://hub.docker.com/r/dealii/dealii/tags/

Notice that if a debug build is present in the image, then you'll also have access to deal.II source files.

All images are built by the user dealii.