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Setting up ParMETIS and Python Support (Ubuntu)
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Setting up ParMETIS and Python3 Support

  1. Install CMake and MPIC++
  2. Download and extract the ParMETIS shared object
wget http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/fetch/sw/parmetis/parmetis-4.0.3.tar.gz 
gunzip parmetis-4.0.3.tar.gz 
tar -x parmetis-4.0.3.tar
cd parmetis-4.0.3

  1. Edit the file metis/include/metis.h and specify the width (32 or 64 bits) of the elementary data type used in ParMetis (and METIS). This is controled by the IDXTYPEWIDTH constant.

  2. Make and Install

make config shared=1
make install
  1. Python Support
pip3 install metis
  1. Add environment variables to BashRC and Source.
export METIS_DLL=/usr/local/lib/libparmetis.so
export METIS_IDXTYPEWIDTH=64
export METIS_REALTYPEWIDTH=64
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