How to get Whisky

There is a yet unannounced, but public version of Whisky. At the moment, you can only get a tar ball from here, later you should be able to get it from a Subversion repository. The public version is dual-licensed under the GNU General Public License versions 2 and 3. It would be nice to tell us who you are when you download it. This is not a requirement, but would help us to have an overview of how widely Whisky is used. If nevertheless you do not want to give information here, please do not insert bogus data, simply leave the fields blank. Please also consider joining the Whisky users mailing list.

The development version of Whisky is not completely public domain, although many of the components that make it work are. In order for the instructions to work you will need a CVS login to the CVS server at least, and for some thorns (such as BSSN) to the AEI server. If you need a login and don't have one,

complain to me. If you run into problems, check the FAQ and then complain to me.

Download the GetCactus script.
Download one of these thornlists. Change the login name hawke to be your own login name wherever it appears.
Run the GetCactus script on the downloaded thornlist. Note that you want the development version of everything.
Compile Whisky using the downloaded thornlist. For architecture specific options I use configuration files such as xeon.cfg, and then run the command

gmake whisky-config THORNLIST=WhiskyThorns.th options=xeon.cfg PROMPT=no

Run the testsuite to check that all is in order, i.e.,

gmake whisky-testsuite

Download one of these more complicated parameter files and start running.

Note that you can update your complete Cactus checkout at any time using the option

gmake cvsupdate

This will only update thorns which you already have checked out. A complete list of all thorns used in the Whisky runs can be found in this thornlist.

This page is maintained by Ian Hawke.

Impressum.