Installing dependencies of the Plasma Shape Editor

The plasma shape editor has additional dependencies which are not automatically installed:

Installing dependencies

On the ITER SDCC cluster you should load the following modules:

module load IMAS-Python IMAS-AL-Cpp/5.4.0-intel-2023b-DD-4.0.0 \
    SuiteSparse/7.7.0-intel-2023b MUSCLE3

Until the IMAS Access Layer core is open-sourced you will need access to these ITER git repositories: https://git.iter.org/projects/IMAS/repos/al-cpp/browse and https://git.iter.org/projects/IMAS/repos/al-core/browse.

If you have access, you can follow these instructions to install imas_core, the C++ version of the Access Layer HLI (adapted from the sharepoint documentation) and MUSCLE3 (adapted from https://muscle3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing.html).

sudo apt install git build-essential cmake libsaxonhe-java libboost-all-dev \
    pkg-config libhdf5-dev xsltproc libblitz0-dev python3-dev python3-venv \
    python3-pip libsuitesparse-dev default-jre libxml2-dev

# Install imas_core and muscle3 with pip
pip install 'imas_core @ git+ssh://git@git.iter.org/imas/al-core.git'
pip install 'muscle3==0.8.0'

# Install AL-CPP in ~/.local
git clone ssh://git@git.iter.org/imas/al-cpp.git
cd al-cpp
cmake -B build -D AL_EXAMPLES=OFF -D AL_HLI_DOCS=OFF -D AL_PLUGINS=OFF \
    -D AL_TESTS=OFF -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/.local \
    -D DD_GIT_REPOSITORY=https://github.com/iterorganization/IMAS-Data-Dictionary.git \
    -D DD_VERSION=4.0.0
make -C build -j
make -C build install
cd ..

# Install C++ libs of MUSCLE3 in ~/.local
wget https://github.com/multiscale/muscle3/archive/0.8.0/muscle3-0.8.0.tar.gz
tar xf muscle3-0.8.0.tar.gz
cd muscle3-0.8.0
make
PREFIX=~/.local make install
cd ..

# Set environment variables so NICE can find its dependencies in the
# following step:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=~/.local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Building the NICE MUSCLE3 IMAS program

The following instructions are adapted from https://blfauger.gitlabpages.inria.fr/nice/install.html.

git clone https://gitlab.inria.fr/blfauger/nice.git
cd nice
git submodule init
git submodule update
cd src
cp Makefile.TEMPLATE Makefile
make -j
make nice_imas_inv_muscle3
make nice_imas_dir_muscle3

If this was successful, you should find the programs nice_imas_inv_muscle3 and nice_imas_dir_muscle3 in the nice/run folder.

Last update: 2026-05-21