Tutorials

All of the following explanations expect that you use a linux command line. Whenever some names are subject to your choice, they are marked as

[CHOICE]

.

While some of the routines displayed here can be helpful 'for private use', you usually employ parallel bilby on a computer cluster. This should usually have

 python

and

miniconda

available. You might need to activate these, though, typing:

module load python

If

miniconda

is not yet installed, you can get it the usual way.

It will save you a great amount of pain to use a dedicated python environment for your work with bilby. Create it with

conda create -n [YOUR_PBILBY_ENVIRONMENT] python=3.7

and hit

y

when asked if you want to proceed. Then activate it by typing

 conda activate [YOUR_PBILBY_ENVIRONMENT]

Python packages are distributed through sometimes conflicting channels. To avoid conflicts, we make sure to use the most common channel

conda-forge

:

conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda config --set channel_priority strict

Then execute the following commands to install packages that the bilby-family requires:

conda install mpi4py
conda install ipython
conda install numpy
conda install scipy
conda install matplotlib