Library requirements for the EPOCH codes

The EPOCH codes are written using MPI for parallelism, but have no other libraries or dependencies. Currently, the codes are written to only require MPI1.2 compatible libraries, although this may change to require full MPI2 compliance in the future. Current versions of both MPICH and OpenMPI implement the MPI2 standard and are known to work with this code. The SCALI MPI implementation is only compliant with the MPI1.2 specification and may loose support soon. There are no plans to write a version of EPOCH which does not require the MPI libraries.

The code is supplied with a standard GNU make Makefile, which is also compatible with most other forms of the *make* utility. In theory it is possible to compile the code without a *make* utility, but it is much easier to compile the code using the supplied makefile.