1.2. Install from source code

Please follow our github webpage to download the latest released version and development version.

Or get the DeePMD-kit source code by git clone

cd /some/workspace
git clone --recursive https://github.com/deepmodeling/deepmd-kit.git deepmd-kit

The --recursive option clones all submodules needed by DeePMD-kit.

For convenience, you may want to record the location of source to a variable, saying deepmd_source_dir by

cd deepmd-kit
deepmd_source_dir=`pwd`

1.2.1. Install the python interface

1.2.1.1. Install the Tensorflow’s python interface

First, check the python version on your machine

python --version

We follow the virtual environment approach to install the tensorflow’s Python interface. The full instruction can be found on the tensorflow’s official website. Now we assume that the Python interface will be installed to virtual environment directory $tensorflow_venv

virtualenv -p python3 $tensorflow_venv
source $tensorflow_venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade tensorflow

It is notice that everytime a new shell is started and one wants to use DeePMD-kit, the virtual environment should be activated by

source $tensorflow_venv/bin/activate

if one wants to skip out of the virtual environment, he/she can do

deactivate

If one has multiple python interpreters named like python3.x, it can be specified by, for example

virtualenv -p python3.7 $tensorflow_venv

If one does not need the GPU support of deepmd-kit and is concerned about package size, the CPU-only version of tensorflow should be installed by

pip install --upgrade tensorflow-cpu

To verify the installation, run

python -c "import tensorflow as tf;print(tf.reduce_sum(tf.random.normal([1000, 1000])))"

One should remember to activate the virtual environment every time he/she uses deepmd-kit.

1.2.1.2. Install the DeePMD-kit’s python interface

Execute

cd $deepmd_source_dir
pip install .

One may set the following environment variables before executing pip:

Environment variables	Allowed value	Default value	Usage
DP_VARIANT	cpu, cuda, rocm	cpu	Build CPU variant or GPU variant with CUDA or ROCM support.
CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR	Path	Detected automatically	The path to the CUDA toolkit directory.
ROCM_ROOT	Path	Detected automatically	The path to the ROCM toolkit directory.

To test the installation, one should firstly jump out of the source directory

cd /some/other/workspace

then execute

dp -h

It will print the help information like

usage: dp [-h] {train,freeze,test} ...

DeePMD-kit: A deep learning package for many-body potential energy
representation and molecular dynamics

optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit

Valid subcommands:
  {train,freeze,test}
    train              train a model
    freeze             freeze the model
    test               test the model

1.2.2. Install the C++ interface

If one does not need to use DeePMD-kit with Lammps or I-Pi, then the python interface installed in the previous section does everything and he/she can safely skip this section.

1.2.2.1. Install the Tensorflow’s C++ interface

Check the compiler version on your machine

gcc --version

The C++ interface of DeePMD-kit was tested with compiler gcc >= 4.8. It is noticed that the I-Pi support is only compiled with gcc >= 4.9.

First the C++ interface of Tensorflow should be installed. It is noted that the version of Tensorflow should be in consistent with the python interface. You may follow the instruction to install the corresponding C++ interface.

1.2.2.2. Install the DeePMD-kit’s C++ interface

Now goto the source code directory of DeePMD-kit and make a build place.

cd $deepmd_source_dir/source
mkdir build 
cd build

I assume you want to install DeePMD-kit into path $deepmd_root, then execute cmake

cmake -DTENSORFLOW_ROOT=$tensorflow_root -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$deepmd_root ..

where the variable tensorflow_root stores the location where the TensorFlow’s C++ interface is installed.

One may add the following arguments to cmake:

CMake Aurgements	Allowed value	Default value	Usage
-DTENSORFLOW_ROOT=<value>	Path	-	The Path to TensorFlow’s C++ interface.
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<value>	Path	-	The Path where DeePMD-kit will be installed.
-DUSE_CUDA_TOOLKIT=<value>	TRUE or FALSE	FALSE	If TRUE, Build GPU support with CUDA toolkit.
-DCUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR=<value>	Path	Detected automatically	The path to the CUDA toolkit directory.
-DUSE_ROCM_TOOLKIT=<value>	TRUE or FALSE	FALSE	If TRUE, Build GPU support with ROCM toolkit.
-DROCM_ROOT=<value>	Path	Detected automatically	The path to the ROCM toolkit directory.
-DLAMMPS_VERSION_NUMBER=<value>	Number	20201029	Only neccessary for LAMMPS built-in mode. The version number of LAMMPS (yyyymmdd).
-DLAMMPS_SOURCE_ROOT=<value>	Path	-	Only neccessary for LAMMPS plugin mode. The path to the LAMMPS source code (later than 8Apr2021). If not assigned, the plugin mode will not be enabled.

If the cmake has executed successfully, then

make -j4
make install

The option -j4 means using 4 processes in parallel. You may want to use a different number according to your hardware.

If everything works fine, you will have the following executable and libraries installed in $deepmd_root/bin and $deepmd_root/lib

$ ls $deepmd_root/bin
dp_ipi      dp_ipi_low
$ ls $deepmd_root/lib
libdeepmd_cc_low.so  libdeepmd_ipi_low.so  libdeepmd_lmp_low.so  libdeepmd_low.so          libdeepmd_op_cuda.so  libdeepmd_op.so
libdeepmd_cc.so      libdeepmd_ipi.so      libdeepmd_lmp.so      libdeepmd_op_cuda_low.so  libdeepmd_op_low.so   libdeepmd.so