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Compile and install OpenFOAM and parallelize PBS under ArchLinux

1. Download source

1.1 Download OpenFOAM source

Create a new OpenFOAM directory under the ${HOME}:

cd ${HOME}
mkdir OpenFOAM && cd OpenFOAM

Download the source of OpenFOAM and ThirdParty from GitHub and put it in the ${HOME}/OpenFOAM:

git clone https://github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-dev --depth=1
git clone https://github.com/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-dev --depth=1

1.2 Download Torque (PBS) source

Here we use Torque from AUR. CentOS, Debian and SUSE operating systems can download ready-made binary packages from OpenPBS on Github. If you use OpenPBS or PBS Pro, please skip Section 3 of this article and refer to other documents to configure PBS.

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