2 Installation

To install the ADF package you have to go through the following steps:

• 1. Decide which version to install (serial or MPI)
• 2. Download and unpack the software
• 3. Install external libraries (optional)
• 4. Set up your environment
• 5. Source distribution only: compile the source
• 6. Generate license information
• 7. Setup a nodeinfo file (PVM only)
• 8. Setup scratch space
• 9. Run some tests
• 9. Clean up

Below we discuss each step separately.