EMOD installation¶
Epidemiological MODeling software (EMOD) can be installed on computers running Windows 10, Windows Server 12, and Windows HPC Server 12 (64-bit) or CentOS 7.1 on Azure. For both operating systems, there are relatively few prerequisites required and the EMOD executable (Eradication.exe) or Eradication binary is pre- built from the latest EMOD source code release. After completing installation, you can run simulations locally or on an HPC cluster using real-world data.
If you are not familiar with disease modeling, we recommend using the training documentation that uses the Quick Start with Excel Front End to walk through several disease modeling tutorials before installing and working directly with EMOD. You are also free to walk through those tutorials running simulations directly with EMOD as described here.
Note
The Quick Start can only be run locally on a 64-bit Windows computer and the Excel Front End is only supported on 32-bit Microsoft Excel, though there is a workaround if you do not want to reinstall your version of Excel. See Troubleshooting EMOD simulations.
The Quick Start is not updated as frequently as the EMOD source, so may not contain all parameters available in the latest version of EMOD. In addition, while you can modify the parameter values, you cannot add or subtract parameters from JSON files within the Excel Front End.
If you want to download and modify the EMOD source code and build the Eradication.exe or Eradication binary yourself, see EMOD source code installation.