This project provides a ready-built virtual machine to run micromagnetic simulations. The following open source software packages are provided
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OOMMF 1.2a5 (The Object Oriented MicroMagnetic Framework): http://math.nist.gov/oommf/
Documentation: http://math.nist.gov/oommf/doc/
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Nmag 0.2.1: http://nmag.soton.ac.uk/nmag/
Documentation: http://nmag.soton.ac.uk/nmag/current/manual/singlehtml/manual.html
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Magpar 0.9 (Parallel Finite Element Micromagnetics Package): http://www.magpar.net/
Documentation: http://www.magpar.net/static/magpar-0.9/doc/html/
If you need to use one of these packages, and you prefer not to install them directly in your computer, you can
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Download the Virtualbox software: virtualbox is a program that allows running another (virtual) machine inside your real computer; the software pretends to be a real computer to the virtual machine operating system. For the real computer, which is generally called the 'host', virtualbox is just a program amongst many others. The virtual machine operating system and programs don't know they are executing in a virtual environment.
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Download the virtualmicromagnetics disk image. Once done, you can create a virtual machine (see SECTION TO BE WRITTEN) from this disk image.
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Start the virtual machine, switch to full screen (if you like) and run your micromagnetic simulations in OOMMF, Magpar or Nmag in this virtual environment.
Please read docs/creating-virtual-machines.md
- Isn't a virtual machine slow when executing?
Not necessarily - modern CPUs support virtualisation with high efficiency.
- What operating system does the virtual machine run?
We have chosen Ubuntu Linux here as research codes often install (only or) better on Linux based systems.
- What does the virtual machine look like?
[insert snapshopt of virtual machine in window in host OS Desktop], [insert snapshot of full screen session, showing OOMMF session with TkWindows, maybe]