Installing EASEA

EASEA runs on three different operating systems (Linux, MacOS X and Windows), on computers with or without General Purpose Graphic Processing Unit (GPGPU) cards. This allows to run EASEA in parallel over a network of possibly heterogeneous machines, thanks to an embedded island model.

Linux and MacOS X installation

1. Create an installation directory somewhere on the disk.
2. Get the latest version from the EASEA sourceforge repository, and put it in this directory. Normally, Sourceforge should detect the operating system you are using, and should point you to the correct version.
3. Open a terminal window, cd to the directory and expand the tar file ($ tar zxvf downloaded_file_name).
4. Type make to compile the EASEA platform for the architecture of your computer.
5. Type sudo make install to move the files around. Typically, make install> will create a directory called /usr/local/easea that will contain a directory called bin and a directory called tpl.

You will need administrator priviledges to run this command, so make sure your login is in the /etc/sudoers file before you execute the sudo make install command, or ask a system administrator to do it for you.

Windows installation

1. Get the latest version from the EASEA sourceforge repository, and put it in this directory. Normally, Sourceforge should detect the operating system you are using, and should point you to the correct version.
2. Follow the Graphic User Interface installer.