The SImulation and Modeling Tool for Optical Interferometry
If you are building SIMTOI from scratch, you will need a C, C++, and Fortran
compiler along with the CMake build system. On a Debian-based system these
can be installed using apt-get:
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake gfortran
If you intend to use Git to checkout the repository, you also need to install it
sudo apt-get install git
All of the minimization engines presently used in SIMTOI use LAPACK and/or BLAS
for solving linear systems of equations. SIMTOI also requires ccfits, cfitsio
QT4 and an OpenGL library. These can all be installed via. apt-get:
sudo apt-get install liblapack-dev libblas-dev libccfits0 libccfits-dev libqt4-dev libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev libglm-dev
In order to run SIMTOI you must also have an installation of OpenCL for your graphics card. If you have an NVidia GPU simply install the video card drivers. On ATI GPUs you must install both the drivers and the AMD APP SDK.
Lastly, SIMTOI has optional support for MultiNest 2.17 (a Bayesian nested sampling minimization engine). As the MultiNest API has significantly changed in the last few revisions, SIMTOI may not support the latest MultiNest. Please pay close attention to version numbers!
After installing the aforementioned prerequisites, you simply need to checkout a copy of SIMTOI and initialize the submodules for liboi, textio, and ccoifits. To do this simply run the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/bkloppenborg/simtoi
cd simtoi
git submodule update --init
After you have installed the prerequisites and checked out SIMTOI and submodules, complilation is easy:
cd build
cmake ..
make
During the cmake .. step CMake will attempt to find the necessary libraries.
It may generate errors if something is not found. The error messages are often
clear, but sometimes a bit cryptic. If you need help, please ask.
Please note that you can compile SIMTOI using multiple cores by specifying
make -jN where N is the number of cores in your machine.
SIMTOI includes the following libraries as part of its distribution:
SIMTOI supports, but our repositories do not include MultiNest (a Bayesian nested sampling minimization engine).
SIMTOI is free software, distributed under the [GNU Lesser General Public License (Version 3)](<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html).
If you use this software as part of a scientific publication, please cite the following works:
Kloppenborg, B.; Baron, F. (2012) "SIMTOI: SImulation and Modeling Tool for Optical Interferometry" (Version X). Available from https://github.com/bkloppenborg/simtoi.
Kloppenborg, B.; Baron, F. (2012), "LibOI: The OpenCL Interferometry Library" (Version X). Available from https://github.com/bkloppenborg/liboi.
If you use the levmar minmizer, see their instruction for including a suitable reference.
If you use the MultiNest minimizer see reference instructions on the MultiNest website