114. Nwchem 6.0 with openmpi support on debian testing

I still haven't managed to compile a working versin of Nwchem 6.1 on Debian 64 bit regardless of whether I'm using mpich or openmpi. The number of posts relating to compiling nwchem is steadily growing, but I'd rather have post which are almost, but not quite, identical if it makes it's unambiguous for the average user how to build and use nwchem.

Anyway, since I'm using openmpi on my rocks cluster(s), I figure I might as well start using openmpi on debian too. In addition, the only way you can get nwchem 6.0 to work with mpich2 on debian seems to be by using the old v1.2 package which causes problems of its own (see apt-pinning).

Note: See here for information about python support: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/adding-python-support-to-nwchem-under.html

Long story short -- nwchem with openmpi:
mkdir ~/tmp
sudo apt-get install openmpi-bin libopenmpi-dev
wget http://www.nwchem-sw.org/images/Nwchem-6.0.tar.gz
tar -xvf Nwchem-6.0.tar.gz
cd nwchem-6.0/

export LARGE_FILES=TRUE
export TCGRSH=/usr/bin/ssh
export NWCHEM_TOP=/home/me/tmp/nwchem-6.0
export NWCHEM_TARGET=LINUX64
export NWCHEM_MODULES=all
export USE_MPI=y
export USE_MPIF=y
export MPI_LOC=/usr/lib/openmpi/lib
export MPI_INCLUDE=/usr/lib/openmpi/include
export LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib/openmpi/lib
export LIBMPI="-lmpi -lopen-rte -lopen-pal -ldl -lmpi_f77 -lpthread"
cd $NWCHEM_TOP/src
make clean
make nwchem_config
make FC=gfortran

This will take a good 20-30 minutes.


Your binary will be in nwchem-6.0/bin/LINUX64/

Finally, see whether openmpi is already in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

/lib/openmm:/usr/lib/nvidia-cuda-toolkit:/usr/lib/nvidia

If not, edit ~/.bashrc and add
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/openmpi/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH=$PATH:/home/me/tmp/nwchem-6.0/bin/LINUX64