Comments on: Parallel SIESTA & VASP on Mac Pro

By: Edgar Martinez

Edgar Martinez — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:14:17 +0000

Thanks a lot for this useful information. We are trying to follow your instructions carefully. At this respect, we have bought a Mac Pro of 12 cores and we pretend to install and parallel SIESTA. However, as you mention the default format is case unsensitive on Mac and it could be a problem for SIESTA parallelization. What kind of problems?, could you explain a little more about this?.

Best regards.

By: Xochitl Lopez Lozano

Xochitl Lopez Lozano — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:45:20 +0000

First, thank you for the effort to share this.

I also want to install SIESTA on my Mac Pro. However for an amateur/beginner/amateur like me, your instructions left me with more questions than answers. It would be nice if rather than assume we know the commands, you could share what you actually put in the command line, if you modified a file and which. This is what normally people post in other forums. Anyway, I thank you, since I will take this as an “encrypted” guide of what I am supposed to do.

best!

By: Gautam Ghosh

Gautam Ghosh — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:31:54 +0000

Dear Cheng:
A few days ago I bought a MacBook Pro, and as such I am interested in compiling VASP which I have been using for several years in large clusters. While doing a Google search with “VASP for Mac OS X” I bumped into your web page, hence the e-mail.

To compile VASP in my MacBook Pro, can you please help me with the following items:
1. The best source to download Fortran/C Compiler.
2. The best source to download MPI support.
3. The best source to download Math Libraries.
4. Can you please send me the “makefiles” to compile VASP using the above resources.

Look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks very much.

By: Cheng

Cheng — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:05:01 +0000

Good luck!

By: Roel

Roel — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:41:17 +0000

Thanks for the configurations.This is really very helpful. I wish I could do this flawlessly in my mac.