Installation

System requirements :

ICARE runs under Windows and Linux. It was heavily tested with Windows XP, Windows 7 (32 and 64 bits) and RPM based Linux distributions (64 bits). Please contact IEEA for more details or particular request.

ICARE needs GiD 8.0.7 or later. It was tested at least with GiD 8.0.7, GiD 9.0.4 and GiD 10.1.9d. This user manual is based on the 8.0.7 version of GiD. ICARE may be launched with a unlicensed GiD version. However, ICARE uses GiD mesh capabilities which are limited in the unlicensed version.

GiD is available from this internet link : http://www.gidhome.com

Currently, the parallel version is only available on Linux. It relies on a MPI implementation. Open MPI, MPI SGI and MPICH have been tested.

The user interface requires 2 external tools that are shipped with Windows, but not with Linux :

a terminal emulator to display the computation progress (Icare will look for the most common ones, like gnome-terminal, konsole or xterm)

a chm viewer to display this user manual (xchm for example, but optional since a html version and a pdf version are available online at http://www.ieea.fr/en/softwares/icare-mom.html)

Installation :

The ICARE.gid directory must be placed under the GiD problemtypes directory. For example, in the Windows version of GiD 8.0.7, the default location is :

C:\Program Files\GiD\GiD8.0.7\problemtypes. This may be done manually or with the provided setup.

The Windows version requires that the bin directory located in ICARE.gid is added to the PATH environment variable. The provided setup utility should do this task. If ICARE is installed manually, the PATH variable must be updated.

The Linux version requires that the following files are executables :

ICARE.gid/ICARE.unix.bat

ICARE.gid/bin/icare-gfortran-serial.exe

ICARE.gid/bin/icare-gfortran-scalapack.exe

The parallel version may require the intervention of IEEA for installation and tuning on a supercomputer (or cluster of computers).