This section explains how to setup and configure the FLARECAST development infrastructure on your personal computer.
Getting ready
Install software
| Software | OS X | Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Python | Install https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2711/ | Should be preinstalled. Test with python --version Otherwise check here. |
| PIP (Python installer) | PIP is shipped with Python 2.7.9+ and Python 3.4+. pip --version If you don't have it follow https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/ | |
| Python IDE | We suggest PyCharm, but any text editor or Spyder will work as well. | |
| IDL | You can use your normal IDL setup to access data and prototype your algorithms. Note: We do not support execution of IDL code on our cluster due to licensing issues. Let us know if this is a problem. Please avoid SolarSoft/SSW-specific functionality in your algorithms. They tend to be hard to be ported to a cluster. | |
Git (source code repository) |
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Docker and docker-compose | Requires Kernel 3.10+
sudo curl -L https://get.docker.com/ | sh sudo pip install docker-compose
| Install https://www.docker.com/docker-toolbox |
Access to Infrastructure
This step is required to get access either to the HMI files stored in France or the properties extracted by our algorithms.
If you want to do all processing on your local machine, you can skip this step.
In order to access the FLARECAST development infrastructure in France you need a dedicated account.
To get an account send a message to Eric Buchlin <eric.buchlin@ias.u-psud.fr>.
Now you need to access
Test installation
Note: Windows has not been tested yet
* OS X or Linux (we have not tested Windows installations yet)
* Python 2.7
* Text Editor or your preferred Python Interactive Development Environment (IDE).
* Account to connect to the FLARECAST infrastructure at OBSPM.