Releases on CVMFS

For each release a binary tarball is created, which is published to CERN’s VM file system (CVMFS) [@cvmfs]. They can be used to run Allpix Squared without building it beforehand. Compared to the Docker images mentioned in Section 2.7, which can run on any operating system, binary releases are tied to a specific operating system.

Binaries for Allpix Squared are currently provided for CentOS 7 (GCC only) and AlmaLinux 9/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9/EL9 (both in a GCC and LLVM variant). Details on the deployment process are given in Setcion 11.4.

To use Allpix Squared from CVMFS, run:

source /cvmfs/clicdp.cern.ch/software/allpix-squared/<version>/<system-specifier>/setup.sh

Where <version> should be replaced with the desired Allpix Squared version (e.g. 2.4.0) and <system-specifier> with the specifier for the system CVMFS is running on (e.g. x86_64-centos7-gcc11-opt).

To verify if Allpix Squared is working, you can run allpix --version.