ET Workshop 2015

Einstein Toolkit Workshop 2015

This workshop will take place on August 11-14, 2015 in Stockholm. Links:

• Workshop website

Einstein Toolkit for VirtualBox

Snapshot of ETK OS

For the Einstein Toolkit tutorial, we have prepared a VirtualBox disk with a Debian Linux-based ETK-OS, which contains all the necessary ingredients to start using Einstein Toolkit:

• The Cactus code;
• Carpet - parallel adaptive mesh refinement driver for the Cactus framework;
• SimFactory for managing Cactus simulations;
• VisIt the 3D visualization tool.

The virtual machine can be downloaded using the following links:

• ETK-2015.vdi.zip (5 GB, --> 14 GB when inflated)
• ETK-2015.vdi.zip.md5 (MD5 checksum for the zip archive)

If your computer has AFS client installed, you might find it more convenient to copy the archive from AFS partition:

• //afs/astro.su.se/service/www/compact-merger.astro.su.se/ETK2015/ETK-2015.vdi.zip
• //afs/astro.su.se/service/www/compact-merger.astro.su.se/ETK2015/ETK-2015.vdi.zip.md5

Configuring VirtualBox (Linux version)

If you want to give it a try, follow these steps.

1. Download and install Oracle VirtualBox on your laptop.
2. Run it: Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager appears. Select "New" to create a new virtual machine.
3. Select Type: Linux, Version: Debian (32-bit)
4. Select generous amount of RAM for your virtual machine (>1GB)
5. Pick an option Use an existing virtual hard drive and point it to the unzipped file: ETK-2015.vdi. Press OK to create the VM.
6. Select Settings > Display and allocate at least 32MB for your virtual display.
7. Select Settings > Processor and click the checkbox to enable PAE/NX.
8. If your laptop has more than one core which you would like to use in virtual machine also, but it's greyed out, you might need to enable hardware virtualization support (e.g. VT-x for Intel processors) in your BIOS.