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CP2K in the cloud

This article describes how to deploy a Microsoft Azure compute instance to use with a CP2K compiled from scratch.

First, you need an instance. Login to MS Azure and switch to the resources tab. Select “Add” in the top menu to create a new virtual machine (or dedicated server if you go for the beefy machines). Select “Ubuntu Server” machines from Canonical. Select Ubuntu 16.04, one of the instance sizes matching your needs and fill all mandatory fields. For simple single-node calculations their actual content is of minimal interest. Make sure to paste your public SSH key into the appropriate field (the whole contents of the file .ssh/id_rsa.pub on most machines). As soon as your machine is available, you can directly login via SSH. Note that you specified the username during setup, so that username together with the IP/URL and your SSH key should allow you to connect directly. Depending on the availability provisioning your machine can take up to some 15 minutes.

Update the software database

sudo apt-get upgrade

Install the bare dependencies of CP2K and helpful tools:

sudo apt-get install build-essential gfortran libscalapack-mpi-dev \
libscalapack-openmpi1 libscalapack-pvm-dev libscalapack-pvm1 \
libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev libblas-dev liblapack-dev libint-dev \
python checkinstall

Now two dependencies have to be built that are either not available in the repository or just compiled with the wrong flags.

cd
mkdir libxc
cd libxc
wget 'http://www.tddft.org/programs/octopus/down.php?file=libxc/libxc-2.2.3.tar.gz' -O 'libxc-2.2.3.tar.gz'
tar xzf libxc-2.2.3.tar.gz
cd libxc-2.2.3/
./configure
make -j XX

with XX in the last line being the number of cores your machine offers. Now libxc is compiled. To help easy uninstalling, we use checkinstall as follows:

sudo checkinstall

Just answer all the questions quickly – your answers are of no importance to the success of this method.

Then, we do the same with libint

cd
mkdir libint
cd libint
wget 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libint/v1-releases/libint-1.1.4.tar.gz?r=&ts=1466686515&use_mirror=tenet' -O 'libint-1.1.4.tar.gz'
tar xzf libint-1.1.4.tar.gz
cd libint-1.1.4
./configure --with-libint-max-am=6 --with-libderiv-max-am1=4 --with-libderiv-max-am2=3
make -j XX
sudo checkinstall<br> with XX in the second-to-last line being the number of cores your machine offers.

Now you can checkout cp2k from your favourite source. Here, we take github:

 git clone git@github.com:cp2k/cp2k.git

Now for compilation you need to hint to the compiler where to find all libraries. In CP2K, this information is stored in ARCH files in the cp2k/arch/ directory. Put the following two files there (UbuntuServer.sopt for single-core calculations and UbuntuServer.popt for multicore calculations).

UbuntuServer.sopt:

CC = gcc
CPP =
FC = gfortran
LD = gfortran
AR = ar -r
FFTW_INC = /usr/include/
FFTW_LIB = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
LIBINT_INC = /usr/local/libint/1.1.4-stable/include
LIBINT_LIB = /usr/local/libint/1.1.4-stable/lib
LIBXC_INC = /usr/include/
LIBXC_LIB = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
DFLAGS = -D__FFTW3 -D__LIBINT -D__LIBXC2\
-D__LIBINT_MAX_AM=7 -D__LIBDERIV_MAX_AM1=5 -D__MAX_CONTR=4
CPPFLAGS =
FCFLAGS = $(DFLAGS) -O2 -ffast-math -ffree-form -ffree-line-length-none\
-ftree-vectorize -funroll-loops\
-mtune=native\
-I$(FFTW_INC) -I$(LIBINT_INC) -I/opt/etsf/include
LDFLAGS = $(FCFLAGS) -static-libgfortran
LIBS = -L/usr/lib/libblas/ -L/usr/lib/ -L/opt/etsf/lib -L/usr/lib/lapack/ -lblas -llapack\
$(FFTW_LIB)/libfftw3.a\
-lxcf90\
-lxc\
$(LIBINT_LIB)/libderiv.a\
$(LIBINT_LIB)/libint.a

and UbuntuServer.popt:

CC = gcc
CPP =
FC = mpif90
LD = mpif90
AR = ar -r
FFTW_INC = /usr/include/
FFTW_LIB = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
LIBINT_INC = /usr/local/libint/1.1.4-stable/include
LIBINT_LIB = /usr/local/libint/1.1.4-stable/lib
LIBXC_INC = /usr/include/
LIBXC_LIB = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
DFLAGS = -D__FFTW3 -D__LIBINT -D__LIBXC2\
-D__LIBINT_MAX_AM=7 -D__LIBDERIV_MAX_AM1=5 -D__MAX_CONTR=4\
-D__parallel -D__SCALAPACK
CPPFLAGS =
FCFLAGS = $(DFLAGS) -O2 -ffast-math -ffree-form -ffree-line-length-none\
-ftree-vectorize -funroll-loops\
-mtune=native\
-I$(FFTW_INC) -I$(LIBINT_INC) -I/opt/etsf/include
LDFLAGS = $(FCFLAGS) -static-libgfortran
LIBS = -L/usr/lib/libblas/ -L/usr/lib/ -L/opt/etsf/lib -L/usr/lib/lapack/ -lscalapack-openmpi -lblas -lblacs-openmpi -llapack\
$(FFTW_LIB)/libfftw3.a\
-lxcf90\
-lxc\
$(LIBINT_LIB)/libderiv.a\
$(LIBINT_LIB)/libint.a

Now enter the cp2k/makefiles folder and build cp2k

cd
cd cp2k/cp2k/makefiles
make -j XX ARCH=UbuntuServer VERSION="sopt popt"

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