Building singularity-eos

The singularity-eos build system is designed with two goals in mind

  1. Portability to a wide range of host codes, system layouts, and underlying hardware

  2. Ease of code development, and flexibility for developers

These considerations continue to guide development of the tools and workflows in working with singularity-eos.

Basics

The build of singularity-eos can take two forms:

  1. Submodule mode

  2. Standalone mode

These will be described in more detail below, but in brief submodule mode is intended for downstream codes that build singularity-eos source code directly in the build (sometimes referred to as “in-tree”), while standalone mode will build singularity-eos as an independent library that can be installed onto the system.

The most important distinction between the modes is how dependencies are handled. submodule mode will use internal source clones of key dependencies (located in utils\), effectively building these dependencies as part of the overall singularity-eos build procedure. It should be noted, however, that there are optional dependencies that are not provided internally and must be separately available.

In standalone mode, all dependencies must be available in the environment, and be discoverable to CMake. While not required, it is encouraged to use the dependency management tool spack to help facilitate constructing a build environment, as well as deploying singularity-eos. Example uses of spack for these purposes are provided below.

A CMake configuration option is provided that allows developers to select a specific mode (SINGULARITY_FORCE_SUBMODULE_MODE), however this is intended for internal development only. The intended workflow is to let singularity-eos decide the appropriate mode, which it decides based on inspecting the project directory that the source resides in.

Dependencies

singularity-eos has a number of required and optional depdencies.

Package Name

Distribution

Comment

ports-of-call

submodule / external

Required

mpark_variant

submodule / external

Required

spiner

submodule [*] / external []

Optional; enhanced backend for EOS tables

hdf5

external only

Optional; used for table I/O

eospac

external only

Optional; used for sesame tables.

kokkos

submodule / external

Optional; enables GPU offloading.

Eigen

submodule / external

Optional; used for linear algebra on the CPU when doing mixed-cell closures.

kokkos-kernels

submodule / external

Optional; used for linear algebra on the GPU when doing mixed-cell closures.

pybind11

external / fetchable []

Optional

A FORTRAN compiler is required if fortran bindings are enabled.

Options for configuring the build

Most configuration options are the same between the two builds. standalone / submodule specific options are touched on in the sections detailing those build modes.

The main CMake options to configure building are in the following table:

Option

Default

Comment

SINGULARITY_USE_SPINER

ON

Enables EOS objects that use spiner.

SINGULARITY_USE_FORTRAN

ON

Enable Fortran API for equation of state.

SINGULARITY_USE_KOKKOS

OFF

Uses Kokkos as the portability backend. Currently only Kokkos is supported for GPUs.

SINGULARITY_USE_EOSPAC

OFF

Link against EOSPAC. Needed for sesame2spiner and some tests.

SINGULARITY_BUILD_CLOSURE

OFF

Build the mixed cell closure models

SINGULARITY_BUILD_TESTS

OFF

Build test infrastructure.

SINGULARITY_BUILD_PYTHON

OFF

Build Python bindings.

SINGULARITY_BUILD_EXAMPLES

OFF

Build examples of singularity-eos in use.

SINGULARITY_INVERT_AT_SETUP

OFF

For tests, pre-invert eospac tables.

SINGULARITY_BETTER_DEBUG_FLAGS

ON

Enables nicer GPU debug flags. May interfere with in-tree builds as a submodule.

SINGULARITY_HIDE_MORE_WARNINGS

OFF

Makes warnings less verbose. May interfere with in-tree builds as a submodule.

SINGULARITY_FORCE_SUBMODULE_MODE

OFF

Force build in _submodule_ mode.

SINGULARITY_USE_SINGLE_LOGS

OFF

Use single precision logarithms (may degrade accuracy).

SINGULARITY_USE_TRUE_LOG_GRIDDING

OFF

Use grids that conform to logarithmic spacing.

More options are available to modify only if certain other options or variables satisfy certain conditions (dependent options). Dependent options can only be accessed if their precondition is satisfied.

If the precondition is satisfied, they take on a default value, although they can be changed. If the precondition is not satisfied, then their value is fixed and cannot be changed. For instance,

# in <top-level>/build
cmake .. -DSINGULARITY_USE_KOKKOS=OFF -DSINGULARITY_USE_CUDA=ON

will have no effect (i.e. SINGULARITY_USE_CUDA will be set to OFF), because the precondition of SINGULARITY_USE_CUDA is for SINGULARITY_USE_KOKKOS=ON.

Generally, dependent options should only be used for specific use-cases where the defaults are not applicable. For most scenarios, the preconditions and defaults are logically constructed and the most natural in practice (SINGULARITY_TEST_* are only available if SINGLARITY_BUILD_TESTS is enabled, for instance).

These options are listed in the following table, along with their preconditions:

Option

Precondition

Comment

SINGULARITY_USE_SPINER_WITH_HDF5

SINGULARITY_USE_SPINER=ON

Requests that spiner be configured for HDF5 support.

SINGULARITY_USE_CUDA

SINGULARITY_USE_KOKKOS=ON

Target nvidia GPUs for Kokkos offloading.

SINGULARITY_USE_KOKKOSKERNELS

SINGULARITY_USE_KOKKOS=ON SINGULARITY_BUILD_CLOSURE=ON

Use Kokkos Kernels for linear algebra. Needed for mixed cell closure models on GPU.

SINGULARITY_BUILD_SESAME2SPINER

SINGULARITY_USE_SPINER=ON SINGULARITY_USE_SPINER_WITH_HDF5=ON

Builds the conversion tool sesame2spiner which makes files readable by SpinerEOS.

SINGULARITY_BUILD_STELLARCOLLAPSE2SPINER

SINGULARITY_USE_SPINER=ON SINGULARITY_USE_SPINER_WITH_HDF5=ON

Builds the conversion tool stellarcollapse2spiner which optionally makes stellar collapse files faster to read.

SINGULARITY_TEST_SESAME

SINGULARITY_BUILD_TESTS=ON SINGULARITY_BUILD_SESAME2SPINER=ON

Test the Sesame table readers.

SINGULARITY_TEST_STELLAR_COLLAPSE

SINGULARITY_BUILD_TESTS=ON SINGULARITY_BUILD_STELLARCOLLAPSE2SPINER=ON

Test the Stellar Collapse table readers.

SINGULARITY_TEST_PYTHON

SINGULARITY_BUILD_TESTS=ON SINGULARITY_BUILD_PYTHON=ON

Test the Python bindings.

SINGULARITY_USE_HELMHOLTZ

SINGULARITY_USE_SPINER=ON SINGULARITY_USE_SPINER_WITH_HDF5=ON

Use Helmholtz equation of state.

SINGULARITY_TEST_HELMHOLTZ

SINGULARITY_USE_HELMHOLTZ

Build Helmholtz equation of state tests.

When installing singularity-eos, data files are also installed. The follwing options control where the data files are installed:

Option

Default

Comment

CMAKE_INSTALL_DATADIR

<none>

Install directory for data files.

CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR

share

Fallback data install directory.

The paths specified by these options are relative to the install prefix.

CMake presets

To further aid the developer, singularity-eos is distributed with Presets, a list of common build options with naturally named labels that when used can reduce the need to input and remember the many options singularity-eos uses. For a general overview of CMake presets, see the cmake documentation on presets

Warning

CMake presets are only available if singularity-eos is the top-level project.

Predefined presets

Predefined presets are described with a json schema in the file CMakePresets.json. As an example:

# in <top-level>/build
$> cmake .. --preset="basic_with_testing"
Preset CMake variables:

  CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS="ON"
  SINGULARITY_BUILD_TESTS="ON"
  SINGULARITY_USE_EOSPAC="ON"
  SINGULARITY_USE_SPINER="ON"

# ...

As you can see, CMake reports the configuration variables that the preset has used, and their values. A list of presets can be easily examined with:

# in <top-level>/build
$> cmake .. --list-presets
Available configure presets:

  "basic"
  "basic_with_testing"
  "kokkos_nogpu"
  "kokkos_nogpu_with_testing"
  "kokkos_gpu"
  "kokkos_gpu_with_testing"

When using presets, additional options may be readily appended to augment the required build. For example, suppose that the basic preset is mostly sufficient, but you would like to enable building the closure models:

# in <top-level>/build
$> cmake .. --preset="basic_with_testing" -DSINGULARITY_BUILD_CLOSURE=ON
# ...

User defined presets

The CMake preset functionality includes the ability of developers to define local presets in CMakeUserPresets.json. singularity-eos explicitly does not track this file in Git, so developers can construct their own presets. All presets in the predefined CMakePresets.json are automatically included by CMake, so developers can build off of those if needed.

For instance, suppose you have a local checkout of the kokkos and kokkos-kernels codes that you’re using to debug a GPU build, and you have these installed in ~/scratch/. Your CMakeUserPresets.json could look like:

{
  "version": 1,
  "cmakeMinimumRequired": {
    "major": 3,
    "minor": 19
  },
  "configurePresets": [
    {
      "name": "my_local_build",
      "description": "submodule build using a local scratch install of kokkos",
      "inherits": [
        "kokkos_gpu_with_testing"
      ],
      "cacheVariables": {
        "Kokkos_DIR": "$env{HOME}/scratch/kokkos/lib/cmake/Kokkos",
        "KokkosKernels_DIR": "$env{HOME}/scratch/kokkoskernels/lib/cmake/KokkosKernels",
        "SINGULARITY_BUILD_PYTHON": "ON",
        "SINGULARITY_TEST_PYTHON": "OFF"
      }
    }
  ]
}

This inherits the predefined kokkos_gpu_with_testing preset, sets the Kokkos*_DIR cache variables to point find_package() to use these directories, and finally enables building the python bindings without including the python tests.

Building in submodule mode

For submodule mode to activate, a clone of the singularity-eos source should be placed below the top-level of a host project

# An example directory layout when using singularity-eos in submodule mode
my_project
|_CMakeLists.txt
|_README.md
|_src
|_include
|_tpl/singularity-eos

singularity-eos is then imported using the add_subdirectory() command in CMake

# In your CMakeLists.txt
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.19)
project(my_project)

add_executable(my_exec src/main.cc)
target_include_directories(my_exec include)

add_subdirectory(tpl/singularity-eos)

target_link_libraries(my_exec singularity-eos::singularity-eos)

This will expose the singularity-eos interface and library to your code, along with the interfaces of the internal dependencies

// in source of my_project

#include<singularity-eos/eos/eos.hpp>
// from the internal ports-of-call submodule
#include<ports-of-call/portability>

// ...

using namespace singularity;

singularity-eos will build (along with internal dependencies) and be linked directly to your executable.

The git submoudles may change during development, either by changing the pinned hash, addition or removal of submodules. If you have errors that appear to be the result of incompatible code, make sure you have updated your submodules with

git submodule update --init --recursive

Building in standalone mode

For standalone mode, all required and optional dependencies are expected to be discoverable by CMake. This can be done several ways

  1. (preferred) Use Spack to configure and install all the dependencies needed to build.

  2. Use a system package manager (apt-get, yum, &t) to install dependencies.

  3. Hand-build to a local filesystem, and configure your shell or CMake invocation to be aware of these installs

standalone mode is the mode used to install singularity-eos to a system as a common library. If, for example, you use Spack to install packages, singularity-eos will be built and installed in standalone mode.

Building with Spack

Spack is a package management tool that is designed specifically for HPC environments, but may be used in any compute environment. It is useful for gathering, configuring and installing software and it’s dependencies self-consistently, and can use existing software installed on the system or do a “full” install of all required (even system) packages in a local directory.

Spack remains under active development, and is subject to rapid change in interface, design, and functionality. Here we will provide an overview of how to use Spack to develop and deploy singularigy-eos, but for more in-depth information, please refer to the official Spack documentation.

Preparation

First, we need to clone the Spack repository. You can place this anywhere, but note that by default Spack will download and install software under this directory. This default behavior can be changed, please refer to the documentation for information of customizing your Spack instance.

$> cd ~
$> git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git

To start using Spack, we use the provided activation script

# equivalent scripts for tcsh, fish are located here as well
$> source ~/spack/share/spack/setup-env.sh

You will always need to activate spack for each new shell. You may find it convienant to invoke this Spack setup in your login script, though be aware that Spack will prepend paths to your environment which may cause conflicts with other package tools and software.

The first time a Spack command is invoked, it will need to bootstrap itself to be able to start concretizing package specs. This will download pre-built packages and create a ${HOME}/.spack directory. This directory is important and is where your primary Spack configuration data will be located. If at any point this configuration becomes corrupted or too complicated to easily fix, you may safely remove this directory to restore the default configuration, or just to try a new approach. Again, refer to the Spack documentaion for more information.

Setup compilers

To use Spack effectively, we need to configure it for the HPC environment we’re using. This can be done manually (by editing packages.yaml, compilers.yaml, and perhaps a few others). This is ideal if you understand how your software environment is installed on the HPC system, and you are fluent in the Spack configuration schema.

However, Spack has put in a lot of effort to be able to automatically discover the available tools and software on any given system. While not perfect, we can get a fairly robust starting point.

Assume we are on an HPC system that has Envionrmental Modules that provides compilers, MPI implementations, and sundry other common tools. To help Spack find these, let’s load a specific configuration into the active shell environment.

$> module load cmake/3.19.2 gcc/11.2.0 openmpi/4.1.1 python/3.10
$> module list

Currently Loaded Modules:
  1) cmake/3.19.2   2) gcc/11.2.0   3) openmpi/4.1.1   4) python/3.10-anaconda-2023.03

First, let’s find the available compilers. (If this is the first Spack command you’ve run, it will need to bootstrap)

$> spack compiler find
==> Added 2 new compilers to ${HOME}/.spack/linux/compilers.yaml
    gcc@4.8.5  gcc@11.2.0
==> Compilers are defined in the following files:
    ${HOME}/.spack/linux/compilers.yaml

Here, we find the default system compiler (gcc@4.8.5), along with the compiler from the module we loaded. Also notice that the ${HOME}/.spack directory has been modified with some new YAML config files. These are information on the compilers and how Spack will use them. You are free to modify these files, but for now let’s leave them as is.

NB: You can repeat this procedure for other compilers and packages, though if you need to use many different combinations of compiler/software, you will find using Spack environments more convenient.

Setup system-provided packages

Next, we will try and find system software (e.g. ncurses,git,zlib) that we can use instead of needing to build our own. This will also find the module software we loaded (cmake,openmpi,python). (This command will take a couple minutes to complete).

$> spack external find --all --not-buildable
==> The following specs have been detected on this system and added to ${HOME}/.spack/packages.yaml
autoconf@2.69       bzip2@1.0.6     coreutils@8.22  dos2unix@6.0.3    gcc@11.2.0        go@1.16.5            hdf5@1.8.12      libfuse@3.6.1         ncurses@6.4.20221231   openssl@1.1.1t     python@3.10.9   sqlite@3.7.17      texlive@20130530
automake@1.13.4     bzip2@1.0.8     cpio@2.11       doxygen@1.8.5     gettext@0.19.8.1  go@1.18.4            hdf5@1.10.6      libtool@2.4.2         ninja@1.10.2           perl@5.16.3        rdma-core@22.4  sqlite@3.40.1      which@2.20
bash@4.2.46         ccache@3.7.7    curl@7.29.0     file@5.11         ghostscript@9.25  go-bootstrap@1.16.5  krb5@1.15.1      lustre@2.12.9         opencv@2.4.5           pkg-config@0.27.1  rsync@3.1.2     subversion@1.7.14  xz@5.2.2
berkeley-db@5.3.21  cmake@2.8.12.2  curl@7.87.0     findutils@4.5.11  git@2.18.4        go-bootstrap@1.18.4  krb5@1.19.4      m4@1.4.16             openjdk@1.8.0_372-b07  python@2.7.5       ruby@2.0.0      swig@2.0.10        xz@5.2.10
binutils@2.27.44    cmake@3.17.5    cvs@1.11.23     flex@2.5.37       git-lfs@2.10.0    gpgme@1.3.2          libfabric@1.7.2  maven@3.0.5           openssh@7.4p1          python@3.4.10      sed@4.2.2       tar@1.26           zip@3.0
bison@3.0.4         cmake@3.19.2    diffutils@3.3   gawk@4.0.2        gmake@3.82        groff@1.22.2         libfuse@2.9.2    ncurses@5.9.20130511  openssl@1.0.2k-fips    python@3.6.8       slurm@23.02.1   texinfo@5.1

-- no arch / gcc@11.2.0 -----------------------------------------
openmpi@4.1.1

Generally you will want to use as much system-provided software as you can get away with (in Spack speak, these are called externals, though external packages are not limited to system provided ones and can point to, e.g., a manual install). In the above command, we told Spack to mark any packages it can find as not-buildable, which means that Spack will never attempt to build that package and will always use the external one. This may cause issues in resolving packages specs when the external is not compatible with the requirements of an downstream package.

As a first pass, we will use --not-buildable for spack external find, but if you have any issues with concretizing then start this guide over (remove ${HOME}/.spack and go back to compilers) and do not use --not-buildable in the previous command. You may also manually edit the packages.yaml file to switch the buildable flag for the troublesome package, but you will need to be a least familiar with YAML schema.

First install with Spack

Let’s walk through a simple Spack workflow for installing. First, we want to look at the options available for a package. The Spack team and package developers have worked over the years to provide an impressive selection of packages. This example will use hypre, a parallel library for multigrid methods.

$> spack info hypre
AutotoolsPackage:   hypre

Description:
    Hypre is a library of high performance preconditioners that features
    parallel multigrid methods for both structured and unstructured grid
    problems.

Homepage: https://llnl.gov/casc/hypre

Preferred version:
    2.28.0     https://github.com/hypre-space/hypre/archive/v2.28.0.tar.gz

Safe versions:
    develop    [git] https://github.com/hypre-space/hypre.git on branch master
    2.28.0     https://github.com/hypre-space/hypre/archive/v2.28.0.tar.gz

# ... more versions listed

Variants:
    Name [Default]              When       Allowed values          Description
    ========================    =======    ====================    ==============================================

    amdgpu_target [none]        [+rocm]    none, gfx900,           AMD GPU architecture
                                           gfx1030, gfx90c,
                                           gfx90a, gfx1101,
                                           gfx908, gfx1010,
# ... lots of amd targets listed
    build_system [autotools]    --         autotools               Build systems supported by the package
    caliper [off]               --         on, off                 Enable Caliper support
    complex [off]               --         on, off                 Use complex values
    cuda [off]                  --         on, off                 Build with CUDA
    cuda_arch [none]            [+cuda]    none, 62, 80, 90,       CUDA architecture
                                           20, 32, 35, 37, 87,
                                           10, 21, 30, 12, 61,
                                           11, 72, 13, 60, 53,
                                           52, 75, 70, 89, 86,
                                           50
    debug [off]                 --         on, off                 Build debug instead of optimized version
    fortran [on]                --         on, off                 Enables fortran bindings
    gptune [off]                --         on, off                 Add the GPTune hookup code
    int64 [off]                 --         on, off                 Use 64bit integers
    internal-superlu [off]      --         on, off                 Use internal SuperLU routines
    mixedint [off]              --         on, off                 Use 64bit integers while reducing memory use
    mpi [on]                    --         on, off                 Enable MPI support
    openmp [off]                --         on, off                 Enable OpenMP support
    rocm [off]                  --         on, off                 Enable ROCm support
    shared [on]                 --         on, off                 Build shared library (disables static library)
    superlu-dist [off]          --         on, off                 Activates support for SuperLU_Dist library
    sycl [off]                  --         on, off                 Enable SYCL support
    umpire [off]                --         on, off                 Enable Umpire support
    unified-memory [off]        --         on, off                 Use unified memory

Build Dependencies:
    blas  caliper  cuda  gnuconfig  hip  hsa-rocr-dev  lapack  llvm-amdgpu  mpi  rocprim  rocrand  rocsparse  rocthrust  superlu-dist  umpire

Link Dependencies:
    blas  caliper  cuda  hip  hsa-rocr-dev  lapack  llvm-amdgpu  mpi  rocprim  rocrand  rocsparse  rocthrust  superlu-dist  umpire

Run Dependencies:
    None

The spack info commands gives us three important data-points we need. First, it tells the versions available. If you do not specify a version, the preferred version is default.

Next and most important are the variants. These are used to control how to build the package, i.e. to build with MPI, to build a fortran interface, and so on. These will have default values, and in practice you will only need to provide a small number for any particular system.

Finally, we are given the dependencies of the package. The dependencies listed are for all configurations, so some dependencies may not be necessary for your particular install. (For instance, if you do not build with cuda, then cuda will not be necessary to install)

Let’s look at what Spack will do when we want to install. We will start with the default configuration (that is, all variants are left to default). The spack spec command will try to use the active Spack configuration to determine which packages are needed to install hypre, and will print the dependency tree out.

$> spack spec hypre
Input spec
--------------------------------
 -   hypre

Concretized
--------------------------------
 -   hypre@2.28.0%gcc@11.2.0~caliper~complex~cuda~debug+fortran~gptune~int64~internal-superlu~mixedint+mpi~openmp~rocm+shared~superlu-dist~sycl~umpire~unified-memory build_system=autotools arch=linux-rhel7-broadwell
 -       ^openblas@0.3.23%gcc@11.2.0~bignuma~consistent_fpcsr+fortran~ilp64+locking+pic+shared build_system=makefile symbol_suffix=none threads=none arch=linux-rhel7-broadwell
[e]          ^perl@5.16.3%gcc@11.2.0+cpanm+opcode+open+shared+threads build_system=generic patches=0eac10e,3bbd7d6 arch=linux-rhel7-broadwell
[e]      ^openmpi@4.1.1%gcc@11.2.0~atomics~cuda~cxx~cxx_exceptions~gpfs~internal-hwloc~internal-pmix~java~legacylaunchers~lustre~memchecker~openshmem~orterunprefix+pmi+romio+rsh~singularity+static+vt~wrapper-rpath build_system=autotools fabrics=ofi,psm,psm2 schedulers=slurm arch=linux-rhel7-broadwell

Here, we see the full default Spack spec, which as a rough guide is structured as <package>@<version>%<compiler>@<compiler_version>{[+/~]variants} <arch_info>. The +,~ variant prefixes are used to turn on/off variants with binary values, while variants with a set of values are given similar to keyword values (e.g. +cuda cuda_arch=70 ~shared)

If we wanted to install a different configuration, in this case say we want complex and openmp enabled, but we don’t need fortran.

$> spack spec hypre+complex+openmp~fortran
Input spec
--------------------------------
 -   hypre+complex~fortran+openmp

Concretized
--------------------------------
 -   hypre@2.28.0%gcc@11.2.0~caliper+complex~cuda~debug~fortran~gptune~int64~internal-superlu~mixedint+mpi+openmp~rocm+shared~superlu-dist~sycl~umpire~unified-memory build_system=autotools arch=linux-rhel7-broadwell
 -       ^openblas@0.3.23%gcc@11.2.0~bignuma~consistent_fpcsr+fortran~ilp64+locking+pic+shared build_system=makefile symbol_suffix=none threads=none arch=linux-rhel7-broadwell
[e]          ^perl@5.16.3%gcc@11.2.0+cpanm+opcode+open+shared+threads build_system=generic patches=0eac10e,3bbd7d6 arch=linux-rhel7-broadwell
[e]      ^openmpi@4.1.1%gcc@11.2.0~atomics~cuda~cxx~cxx_exceptions~gpfs~internal-hwloc~internal-pmix~java~legacylaunchers~lustre~memchecker~openshmem~orterunprefix+pmi+romio+rsh~singularity+static+vt~wrapper-rpath build_system=autotools fabrics=ofi,psm,psm2 schedulers=slurm arch=linux-rhel7-broadwell

Here, you can see the full spec has out supplied variants. In general, variants can control build options and features, and can change which dependencies are needed.

Notice also the left-aligned string starting each line for a package. - indicates that Spack isn’t aware that this package is installed (which is expected). [+] indicates that the package has been previously installed. [e] indicates that the package has been marked as externally installed.

Finally, we can install it. Because perl and openmpi are already present, Spack will not need to download, build, and install these packages. This can save lots of time! Note, however, that external packages are loosely constrained and may not be correctly configured for the requested package.

Note

By default, Spack will try to download the package source from the repository associated with the package. This behavior can be overrided with Spack mirrors , but that is beyond the scope of this doc.

Now, we can use Spack similarly to module load,

$> spack load hypre
$> spack find --loaded

Other options are available for integrating Spack installed packages into your environment. For more, head over to https://spack.readthedocs.io

Installing singularity-eos using Spack

. warning::

The spack build is currently experimental. Please report problems you havee as github issues.

The spackage is available in the main Spack repositories, and we provide a spackage for singularity-eos witin the the singularity-eos source repository. The distributed spackage may be more up-to-date than the one in the main Spack repository. If you have spack installed, simply call

git clone --recursive git@github.com:lanl/singularity-eos.git
spack repo add singularity-eos/spack-repo
spack install singularity-eos

to install singularity-eos into your spack instance. The spackage supports a number of relevant variants:

Variant Name [default]

Allowed Values

Description

build_extra [none]

none, sesame, stellarcollapse

Build sesame2spiner or stellarcollapse2spiner

build_type [RelWithDebInfo]

Debug, Release, RelWitHDebInfo, MinSizeRel

Equivalent to -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE in cmake build

cuda [off]

on, off

Build with cuda

cuda_arch [none]

see kokkos spec

The target GPU architecture

doc [off]

on, off

Build sphinx docs

format [off]

on, off

Support for clang-format

fortran [on]

on, off

Provide fortran bindings

hdf5 [off]

on, off

Enable HDF5 I/O for tables

ipo [off]

on, off

CMake interprocedural optimization

kokkos [off]

on, off

Enable Kokkos backend Required for cuda support

kokkos-kernels [off]

on, off

Use kokkos-kernels for linear algebra suport, which is needed with mixed-cell closures on GPU

mpi [off]

on, off

Build with parallel HDF5 otherwise build with serial

openmp [off]

on, off

Build Kokkos openmp backend

tests [off]

on, off

Build tests

Developing singularity-eos using Spack

Spack is a powerful tool that can help develop singularity-eos for a variety of platforms and hardware.

  1. Install the dependencies singularity-eos needs using Spack

$> spack install -u cmake singularity-eos@main%gcc@13+hdf5+eospac+mpi+kokkos+kokkos-kernels+openmp^eospac@6.4.0

This command will initiate an install of singularity-eos using Spack, but will stop right before singularity-eos starts to build (-u cmake means until cmake). This ensures all the necessary dependencies are installed and visible to Spack

  1. Use Spack to construct an ad-hoc shell environment

$> spack build-env singularity-eos@main%gcc@13+hdf5+eospac+mpi+kokkos+kokkos-kernels+openmp^eospac@6.4.0 -- bash

This command will construct a shell environment in bash that has all the dependency information populated (e.g. PREFIX_PATH, CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and so on). Even external packages from a module system will be correctly loaded. Thus, we can build for a specific combination of dependencies, compilers, and portability strategies.

$> salloc -p scaling
# ...
$> source ~/spack/share/spack/setup-env.sh
$> spack build-env singularity-eos@main%gcc@12+hdf5+eospac+mpi+kokkos+kokkos-kernels+openmp^eospac@6.4.0 -- bash
$> mkdir -p build_gpu_mpi ; cd build_gpu_mpi
$> cmake .. --preset="kokkos_nogpu_with_testing"