EMOD source code installation#
This section describes how to install the software needed to build the EMOD executable (Eradication.exe) or Eradication binary for Linux from the EMOD source code. This is necessary if you want to modify the source code to extend the capabilities of the model beyond what’s available with the latest EMOD release. For example, you may want to model a disease that isn’t currently supported in EMOD. You can build Eradication.exe from source code on computers running Windows 10, Windows Server 12, and Windows HPC Server 12 (64-bit) or build the Eradication binary for Linux on computers running CentOS 7.1.
After building, you should run a single simulation to verify basic functionality. We recommend the 27_Vector_Sandbox scenario in the Regression directory, which is a simple five-year vector simulation with an indoor residual spraying (IRS) campaign in the third year, executed on a single-node geography that is based on Namawala, Tanzania. This simulation generally takes a few minutes to execute.
However, you can run a simulation using any of the subdirectories under Regression, which when used with the demographics and climate files provided by IDM, contain complete sets of files for EMOD simulations.
After that, we recommend running full regression tests to further verify that EMOD is behaving as expected and that none of the source code changes inadvertently changed the EMOD functionality. See Regression testing for more information.
The EMOD executable (Eradication.exe) is tested using Windows 10, Windows Server 12, and Windows HPC Server 12 (64-bit). Windows HPC Server is used for testing remote simulations on a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster and the other Windows operating systems are used to test local simulations.
The Eradication binary for Linux is tested and supported on a CentOS 7.1 virtual machine on Azure. It has also been successfully built and run on Ubuntu, SUSE, and Arch, but has not been tested and is not supported on those Linux distributions.