dynare.md

Dynare installation on a Linux cluster

Sometimes you just want to run Dynare on a cluster but unfortunately there's no official documentation for it. So here's how.

1. Load the required modules that Dynare requires. For Compute Canada you can simply do

   module load matlab boost bison gsl matio

2. Find Matlab directory by whereis matlab, and copy everything before the /bin/matlab part. For Cedar of Compute Canada, it will be /cvmfs/restricted.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2020/Core/matlab/2021a.1/bin/matlab.

3. Make Dynare directories by mkdir -p ~/dynare

4. Git pull the source by git clone --recurse-submodules --single-branch --branch 4.6 https://git.dynare.org/Dynare/dynare.git dynare/stable-4.6. This example fetches the stable version at 4.6. You could also do git clone --recurse-submodules --single-branch --branch master https://git.dynare.org/Dynare/dynare.git dynare/unstable for an unstable version.

5. Compile Dynare

   cd stable-4.6 # or replace wherever dynare is copied to
   autoreconf -si
   ./configure --with-matlab=/cvmfs/restricted.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2020/Core/matlab/2021a.1/bin/matlab --disable-octave --disable-doc --disable-dynare++ --disable-mex-kalman-steady-state # replace the matlab path
   make -j20

6. You might want to download and compile x13as if you haven't done that: (for more information about x13as check here)

   cd ~/x13as
   wget https://www.census.gov/ts/x13as/unix/x13assrc_V1.1_B39.tar.gz
   tar xf x13assrc_V1.1_B39.tar.gz
   sed -i "s|-static| |" makefile.gf # this removes '-static'
   make -f makefile.gf FFLAGS="-O2 -std=legacy" PROGRAM=x13as # use legacy mode
   ln -s ~/x13as/x13as ~/.local/bin

After all this, you need to addpath in your job submission file to make sure that Dyanre path can be found by Matlab. Then you are good to go!