(This entry has been updated to discuss installing JModelica on XSEDE's Comet supercomputer: see below. Many of the initial steps are the same.)

My computer had 8GB of RAM. It may be that this simply will not work with 2GB of RAM or less.

Update package list

sudo apt-get update

Download and install screen, so we can work quickly, and subversion, so we can start downloading stuff:

sudo apt-get -y install screen subversion

Run screen (with automatic logging!):

screen -L

Download and install required packages

sudo apt-get -y install g++ gfortran ipython cmake swig ant python-dev python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib cython
python-lxml python-nose python-jpype libzip-dev openjdk-7-jdk libboost-dev jcc pkg-config

We modify the JModelica required packages to include:

• openjdk-7-jdk - we are trying this instead of JModelica's recommended openjdk-6-jdk. Keepin' up with the times.

• libzip-dev is necessary for JModelica as well.

• libboost-dev provisions boost-flyweight, which is needed to run make casadi_interface

Download JModelica on one screen (I've set it here to a revision where I know things worked for my purposes):

svn co https://svn.jmodelica.org/trunk@7885 JModelica.org

While Ipopt is available as a pre-compiled package for Ubuntu, it is recommended to build Ipopt from sources. The Ipopt packages provided for Ubuntu have had flaws (including the version provided for Ubuntu 12.04) that prevented usage with JModelica.org. Also, compiling Ipopt from sources is required when using the linear solvers MA27 or MA57 from the HSL library, since these are not available as open source software.

Get IPOPT on another screen:

wget http://www.coin-or.org/download/source/Ipopt/Ipopt-3.12.4.tgz

Unpack IPOPT in the home directory. It must be in the home directory.

tar xvzf Ipopt-3.12.4.tgz

Get IPOPT third-party packages:

cd ~/Ipopt-3.12.4/ThirdParty/Blas
./get.Blas
cd ../Lapack
./get.Lapack
cd ../Mumps
./get.Mumps
cd ../Metis
./get.Metis
cd ../../                        #Go back to the IPOPT base dir

If you have access to the HSL codes MA57 or MA27 (you'll need to fetch them from here) you'll want to install them. I had them on my local machine and was installing to a server, so I used scp to move them over:

scp -C coinhsl-2014.01.10.tar.gz root@IP_ADDRESS:~/

Unpack the archive and move the contents to a place where IPOPT will see them.

cd ~/Ipopt-3.12.4/ThirdParty/HSL
tar xvzf ~/coinhsl-2014.01.10.tar.gz
mv coinhsl-2014.01.10 coinhsl

Compile IPOPT:

cd ~/Ipopt-3.12.4/
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make -j 4                        #Compile using 4 cores (if you have them)
make install

Hopefully JModelica is done downloading by now.

Compile JModelica

cd ~/JModelica.org
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --with-ipopt=$HOME/Ipopt-3.12.4/build --prefix=$HOME
make
make install
make install_casadi

Depending on how you have your Java set up, you may need to set up some environment variables as follows. That should not be necessary for the process described here, since we have installed the correct version of Java and set up expected paths.

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/amd64/server:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

On XSEDE these paths are:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.75.x86_64
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/amd64/server:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

Once you have the paths set up, finish installing.

make install casadi_interface

Woo! It should be working!

But probably it isn't. When I did the above process, IPOPT did not find HSL, even though it was supposed to be baked in. If you get complaints about libhsl.so being missing try the following first, then look below in "Compilation & Execution Issues" for another important debugging step.

cd ~
tar xvzf coinhsl-2014.01.10.tar.gz
cd coinhsl-2014.01.10
./configure LIBS="-llapack" --with-blas="-L/usr/lib -lblas" CXXFLAGS="-g -O2 -fopenmp" FCFLAGS="-g -O2 -fopenmp" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fopenmp"
make -j 4
make install

The library will be installed to /usr/local/lib, but IPOPT won't detect it because it will have the wrong name. Let's fix that:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libcoinhsl.so /usr/local/lib/libhsl.so

And IPOPT still won't detect it because you need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

You can check on your dynamically loading libraries with ldconfig -v.

HSL will run with a single core unless you set the OpenMP environmental variable:

export OMP_NUM_THREADS=7 #or the number of cores you want to use

Compilation & Execution Issues

You get the message

ImportError: cannot import name transfer_optimization_problem

You didn't run make install casadi_interface. Shame on you.