Dual-booting on a PC is easy: you stick in a LiveCD disk, drum your fingers for a few minutes then let the installer take care of all the difficult stuff.
But how does one dual-boot Ubuntu on a Mac?
It’s actually not that difficult; there are various guides and how-to’s on the internet. But to help clarify the process I thought I would share the method I use.
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Whilst I don’t guarantee that it will work for you (although in all honesty it should), be sure to make a back up of anything vital before attempting this. Seriously, do it.
Ready? Let’s begin…
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Unlike a typical PC where the GRUB boot-loader is used to present your dual-boot options, Intel Mac users need to install something extra: ‘rEFIt’.
‘rEFIt’ is a visually slick (think BURG) boot-interrupter that allows you to boot between OS X and your Linux distribution(s) of choice.
rEFIt should be installed from within OS X, and doesn’t require the use of too many braincells to accomplish: –
If everything went well you will see the rEFIt boot menu appear on your next restart.
For extra peace of mind create a bookmark to the ‘Troubleshooting section‘ of the rEFIt website incase any issues arise.
The next step is to make some space for your Ubuntu install. I typically do this in OS X because it’s easier.
Be generous when allocating disk space you need as trying to change it later can lead to all sorts of problems.
Once you’re all set you just need to pop your LiveCD into the disk drive and reboot.
Press the ‘C’ after the start ‘chimes’ sound to boot from the Live CD.
If you’re an iMac user using bluetooth peripherals do be aware that these will not work out of the box in Ubuntu, so have a wired keyboard and mouse to hand.
Proceed to install Ubuntu on the ‘free space’ partition you created earlier. Ubuntu may prompt you to install it on freespace (double check the size) or, if it doesn’t or you just want to be super-cautious choose the ‘Advanced’ option from the partition screen.
From here select (check the box under ‘format’) ‘free space‘ and choose the ‘EXT4’ filesystem when asked, and mount point should be set as ‘/’.
The above looks a bit crazy, but once you’re in the partition editor of the LiveCD it’s straightforward.
I should also add that I don’t usually bother adding Swap space but you may wish to.
Once all is done you just need to reboot your Mac and select ‘Linux’ from the REFit bootloader when it appears.
If you’re using a bluetooth keyboard you will need to press a button on your keyboard and wait a second before you are able to select boot entries with rEFIt.
Thanks to Beau for the idea
Yet another Fortran compiler?
Honestly, I think that, whether you do have your favorite Fortran
compiler or not, it is always interesting to check how your applications behave to different compilers.
After the GNU
and the Intel Fortran
compilers, we will describe here how to install the PGI Fortran
compiler on Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
. The PGI Fortran
compiler is also available for Mac OS X, and a link to download and install it is provided here.
PGI Compilers are products of the Portland Group, Inc.
or PGI, a company that produces a set of commercially available compilers for high-performance computing systems, and which is a wholly owned subsidiary of NVIDIA Corporation
. PGI compilers incorporate global optimization, vectorization, software pipelining, and shared-memory parallelization capabilities targeting both Intel
and AMD
processors.
1. PGI Compilers for Linux
To proceed, first you have to create an account on the PGI website, in order to download the compiler. Please note that the activation Email from PGI could be delayed, we had to wait for almost 24-hours to receive it!
In the address below, you can download, in addition to the Fortran compilers, a whole set of PGI compilers (C/C++
and CUDA
, among others), as well as debugging and memory evaluation tools.
However, some of them are not free. We will discuss the licensing procedure later on.
Two different versions are available for each compiler: Workstation
or Server
. The characteristics of each version are as follow:
– Workstation
All PGI Workstation
products include a node–locked single–user license, meaning one user at a time can compile on the one system on which the PGI Workstation
compilers and tools are installed. The product and license server are on the same local machine.
– ServerPGI Server
products are offered in configurations identical to PGI Workstation, but include network floating multi–user licenses. This means that two or more users can use the PGI compilers and tools concurrently on any compatible system networked to the license server, that is, the system on which the PGI Server license keys are installed.
It is worth telling that the Workstation
version is totally free and permanent, whereas the Server
version is a 30-days trial version!
For this tutorial, we will proceed with the 32-bit PGI Fortran Workstation version
, Linux Release 15.1
, updated January 31, 2015.
Release 2015
includes, among other things, native OpenMP
and auto-parallelizing Fortran 2003
compiler (PGFortran
) and MPICH
libraries, version 3.1.3, for 64-bit development environments (both Linux
and Mac OS X
).
You can also use the PGI tools to develop, debug, and profile MPI
applications. Please note that The PGPROF
MPI profiler and PGDBG
debugger included with PGI Workstation
and PGI Server
are limited to 16 local processes.
PGI supports Linux Ubuntu 8.04+
, including Ubuntu 14.10
, as well as CentOS 5.2+
, Fedora 4+
and SuSE 9.3+
, among others.
A table, listing the processors on which the Release 2015
PGI compilers and tools are supported, is given. Please do refer to the PGI Installation Guide
for more details about the supported OS, processors, as well as for additional components installation:
Finally, before starting the installation, please consider installing the GNU C
and GNU C++
compilers, or update them, if need be:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Use the following command sequence to unpack the .tar.gz file into a temporary directory before the installation:
mkdir /tmp/pgi
mv pgilinux-2015-151-x86.tar.gz.tar.gz /tmp/pgi
cd /tmp/pgi
gunzip pgilinux-2015-151-x86.tar.gz.tar.gz
tar -xvf pgilinux-2015-151-x86.tar.gz.tar
Run the installation scripts:
sudo ./install
The default installation folder is /opt/pgi/
. You may choose to install the compiler in another directory.
When the installation script has completed, execute the following commands to make the PGI
products accessible and to initialize your environment for use. In your .bashrc
file, insert the following commands:
export PGI=/opt/pgi;
export PATH=/opt/pgi/linux86-64/15.1/bin:$PATH;
export MANPATH='$MANPATH':/opt/pgi/linux86-64/15.1/man;
export LM_LICENSE_FILE='$LM_LICENSE_FILE':/opt/pgi/license.dat;
At this point, all you need to do is to configure your license-key. There are three ways to obtain a license-key for the PGI compilers and tools:
– Invoke PGI’s license generation tool:
/opt/pgi/linux86/15.1/bin/pgi_license_tool
– Login to your PGI account on http://www.pgroup.com
. The hostid
information for your computer is shown in the file /opt/pgi/license.info
.
– Copy the licence-key provided in the Email sent by PGI prior to the installation.
Paste your license-key in the file /opt/pgi/license.dat
.
You are done!
Please note that PGI provides permanent license key only for the PGI Workstation
version of the compiler. Other versions, such as PGI Server
or Accelarator
compilers are provided with a renewable 30-days trial license!
Again, please refer to the license.info
and the Installation Guide
files for further details.
2. PGI Compilers for Mac OS X
The PGI Fortran
compiler is also available on the Mac OS X
platform, namely Free PGI
.
Free PGI
for Mac OS X
includes the PGI high-performance parallel C99
and Fortran 2003
compilers and parallel debugger for 64-bit
and 32-bit Intel
processor-based Macs.
Although the installation for the Mac OS X
is not described here, it is relatively easy and doesn’t differ much from the Linux procedure.
The download and installation procedure are described in details at this address:
This procedure has successfully been tested on a Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS system.