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In preparation for upcoming EOVSA and GX Simulator Modeling Camp, here are the instructions for installing the latest version of the SSW IDL GSFIT and GX_SIMULATOR packages, which are needed for running the tutorials, or for working on the events of your choice during the hands-on sessions.

Installation guide of GSFIT and GX_SIMULATOR

These instructions assume that you already have IDL and SSW installed on your personal laptops. Any prior installation of the GSFIT or GX_SIMULATOR packages will be replaced during this process.

  1. If not already installed on your system, download and install git for command line https://git-scm.com/

  2. Launch the Git Bash terminal

  3. CD to your SSW/packages/ folder. (On Windows platform, this is usually “c:\ssw\packages” )

  4. Issue the following sequence of commands to clone/install the GSFIT and GX_SIMULATOR packages as local git repositories located in your /ssw/packages tree (Warning: the order of operations is important!)

rm -rf gsfit

git clone https://github.com/Gelu-Nita/GSFIT gsfit

rm -rf gx_simulator

git clone https://github.com/Gelu-Nita/GX_SIMULATOR gx_simulator

cd gx_simulator

git submodule update --init --recursive --remote

  1. Depending on your OS, edit the appropriate SSWIDL startup script to add gsfit and gx_simulator to the existing SSW_INSTR list.

If everything works as expected, the above actions should create (or update) the ssw/packages/gsfit and /ssw/packages/gx_simulator installation folders and you should be able to launch the GSFIT and GX_SIMULATOR GUIs issuing the IDL command lines

IDL>gsfit and, respectively, IDL>gx


Additional References:

Github:

https://github.com/Gelu-Nita/GSFIT

https://github.com/Gelu-Nita/GX_SIMULATOR

GSFIT tutorial (please ignore the outdated installation instructions):

GSFIT Help - EOVSA Wiki (njit.edu)

Recently posted ArXiv manuscript:

Data-Constrained Solar Modeling with GX Simulator



Installation guide of suncasa

See suncasa README file on GitHub for details.