System Requirements
ADAPT 5 is supported for the following platforms:
| Hardware | Compiler | Operating system |
| PC | Intel Visual Fortran 11.1 (distribution includes version with MVS 2008 Shell and Libraries integrated and the version for MVS 2008/2005 installed separately) | WIndows XP/ Server 2003/Vista |
| PC | Intel Visual Fortran 11.0 (distribution includes version with MVS 2005 integrated and the version for MVS 2008/2005 installed separately) | WIndows XP/ Server 2003/Vista |
| PC | Intel Visual Fortran 10.1 (distribution includes version with MVS 2005 integrated and the version for MVS 2008/2005 installed separately) | WIndows XP/ Server 2003/Vista |
| PC | Intel Visual Fortran 10.1 (distribution includes version with MVS 2005 integrated and the version for MVS 2005 or MVS .NET 2003 installed separately) | WIndows XP/ Server 2003/Vista |
| PC | Intel Visual Fortran 9.1 (MVS 2005 or MVS .NET 2003 must be installed separately) | WIndows XP/ Server 2003 |
| PC | Compaq 6.6c | Windows 2000/ XP/Vista |
MVS = Microsoft Visual Studio
One of the Fortran compilers shown above must first be fully installed on your system. The Intel Visual Fortran compilers 10.x - 11.x are distributed with and without Microsoft Visual Studio components included, and you will need to install the correct version for your system. The platforms listed in the above table are the only environments on which ADAPT 5 has been tested and validated.
Installing ADAPT
ADAPT 5 can be downloaded from the BMSR web site http://bmsr.usc.edu and installed by clicking on the installation icon (one of the above listed compilers must be installed first). The installation can be validated by running the Validation program in the ADAPT Program Group. The pdf file for this User's Guide is accessed via the ADAPT Program Group after installation. The default path for installation of ADAPT is C:\Program Files\BMSR\ADAPT 5. The installation folder also includes the subfolder, \Validation, that contains all the model, data, parameter, and control input files used to validate the ADAPT 5 installation, as well as a subfolder, \Example, that includes the files used for the examples in this User's Guide. Another subfolder, \Library, contains all the model files that are available in the ADAPT Library.
A note to ADAPT 5 Beta users: You must first remove your beta version of ADAPT via Windows. Then you will need to manually delete the file globals.inc that resides in the ADAPT installation folder.
Validating the Installation
After successful installation, the installation can be validated by running the validation program in the ADAPT 5 Program Group as indicated shown below. (On Vista machines it may be necessary to first change the Properties of the ValidateADAPT.exe program in the ADAPT 5 folder as follows: Compatibility Mode - Windows XP (Service Pack 2); Privilege Level - Administrator.)
This process will run over 25 examples invoking various features of all the ADAPT programs, and will compare the results obtain from the user's installation to the set of results distributed with ADAPT. If these two sets of results are in agreement the window shown below will be displayed. The full set of results from the vaildation (all files created by ADAPT) are archived in the validation folder. ADAPT 5 has been validated for all of the platforms listed in Chapter 1.4.
If ADAPT is uninstalled, all the files in the installation directory will be removed, including those in the \Validation, \Example and \Library folders and any files created by the user. Thus the user should not place his or her project files in the ADAPT installation folder. The globals.inc file, however, with any changes made by the user will be retained and used on reinstallation of ADAPT 5 (see Appendix A of the User's Guide).
