Running ABINIT under Windows
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 5:06 pm
May one hope for version of the program 7.10 ABINIT under Windows? With kind regards to the creators of the program, Steve.
Hi Steve,
The last ABINIT version running natively under windows 64bits was 7.2.2
To build ABINIT, we used Cygwin environment with autotools & Co , cross compiler MingW32 to create a natif binary and a free mpich2 1.4.1 package from http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/
Unfortunately, the MPICH2 team decided to stop native support for MPICH2 under Windows in favor of Microsoft MPI package
Meanwhile, Cygwin64 environment is out !
The performance of ABINIT created entirely under Cygwin64 are excellent !
No overhead : the tests will run as fast as Linux equivalent hardware/software …
We therefore decided to stop dealing a Windows package.
Regards