How to run coolfluid-solver

COOLFluiD builds several tools and one of them is the COOLFluiD Solver, which can be used to solve the Testcases which are provided with the project.

Checkout How to get Testcases

Depending if you are a user, which has access to a pre-installed COOLFluiD, or if you are a developer, running the solver from within the compilation directory, the way to run is slightly different:

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Possible errors

When running a COOLFluiD that was compiled with LAM/MPI you might need to initialize the MPI environment first.

This error will be signaled by a message similar to the folowing:

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It seems that there is no lamd running on the host aglin5.vki.ac.be.

This indicates that the LAM/MPI runtime environment is not operating.
The LAM/MPI runtime environment is necessary for MPI programs to run
(the MPI program tired to invoke the "MPI_Init" function).

Please run the "lamboot" command the start the LAM/MPI runtime
environment.  See the LAM/MPI documentation for how to invoke
"lamboot" across multiple machines.
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To fix it, just run:

$> lamboot