METIS - Serial Graph Partitioning and Fill-reducing Matrix Ordering
The distribution of METIS 5.x contains a number of files that total to over 35,000 lines of code. It is written entirely in ANSI C, and is portable on most Unix systems that have an ANSI C compiler (the GNU C compiler will do).
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The first step in getting and using METIS is to download the distribution file for your architecture.
Older versions of METIS can be found here. | |||||||||||||||
| Installing | |||||||||||||||
After downloading METIS you need to uncompress it and untar it. This is achieved by executing the following commands:
gunzip metis-5.x.y.tar.gz tar -xvf metis-5.x.y.tar At this point you should have a directory named metis-5.x.y. This directory contains METIS's source code. To build METIS, follow the instructions in the file metis-5.x.y/Install.txt. | |||||||||||||||
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Instructions describing how to use METIS can be found at metis-5.x.y/manual/manual.pdf.
You can get a PDF copy from here. | |||||||||||||||