SeisSol · davschneller · Jun 3, 2026 · May 20, 2026 · May 20, 2026 · May 21, 2026
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
@@ -98,11 +98,11 @@ RUN git clone --recursive --depth 1 --single-branch --branch v1.3.0 https://gith
     && cd SeisSol \
     && mkdir build_hsw && cd build_hsw \
     && export PATH=$PATH:/home/tools/bin \
-    && CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/tools -DGEMM_TOOLS_LIST=LIBXSMM -DHOST_ARCH=hsw -DASAGI=on -DNETCDF=on -DORDER=4 -DDR_QUAD_RULE_OPTIONS=dunavant \
+    && CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/tools -DGEMM_TOOLS_LIST=LIBXSMM -DHOST_ARCH=hsw -DNEW_BINARY_NAMING=ON -DASAGI=on -DNETCDF=on -DORDER=4 -DDR_QUAD_RULE_OPTIONS=dunavant \
     && make -j$(nproc) \
     && cmake .. -DEQUATIONS=viscoelastic2 -DNUMBER_OF_MECHANISMS=3 \
     && make -j$(nproc) \
-    && cp SeisSol_* /home/tools/bin
+    && cp seissol-* /home/tools/bin
 
 RUN cd SeisSol/preprocessing/science/rconv \
     && mkdir build && cd build \

diff --git a/Dockerfile_jupyterlab b/Dockerfile_jupyterlab
@@ -1,158 +1,208 @@
-FROM ghcr.io/seisscoped/container-base:ubuntu22.04_jupyterlab
+# ==========================================
+# STAGE 0: Build Environment (Ubuntu 26.04 LTS)
+# ==========================================
+FROM ubuntu:26.04 AS builder
 
-RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y \
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
+# Installs compilation tools (heavyweight workspace)
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
     bzip2 \
+    ca-certificates \
     cmake \
     g++ \
     gcc \
     gfortran \
-    libgomp1 \
+    git \
+    make \
     libnuma-dev \
-    libnuma1 \
-    libocct-data-exchange-7.5 \
-    libocct-data-exchange-dev \
-    libocct-foundation-7.5 \
-    libocct-foundation-dev \
-    libocct-modeling-algorithms-7.5 \
-    libocct-modeling-algorithms-dev \
-    libocct-modeling-data-7.5 \
-    libocct-modeling-data-dev \
-    libopenblas-base \
     libopenblas-dev \
+    libopenmpi-dev \
     libreadline-dev \
-    libtbb2 \
+    libtbb-dev \
     libyaml-cpp-dev \
-    libmpich-dev \
-    mpich \
-    m4 \
+    openmpi-bin \
     pkg-config \
-    zlib1g \
+    python3 \
+    python3-pip \
+    python3-setuptools \
+    wget \
     zlib1g-dev \
-    && docker-clean 
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-RUN mkdir -p /home/tools
+RUN mkdir -p /home/tools/bin /home/tools/lib /home/tools/include
 
 WORKDIR /tmp
 
-ENV PATH="/home/tools/bin:${PATH}" 
-
-ARG TARGETARCH
-
-RUN wget --progress=bar:force:noscroll https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.12/hdf5-1.12.2/src/hdf5-1.12.2.tar.bz2 \
-    && tar -xvf hdf5-1.12.2.tar.bz2 \
-    && cd hdf5-1.12.2 \
-    && CFLAGS="-fPIC" CC=mpicc FC="mpif90 --std=f95" ./configure --enable-parallel --with-zlib --disable-shared --prefix /home/tools \
+ENV PATH="/home/tools/bin:${PATH:-}"
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/tools/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:-}"
+ENV PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/home/tools/lib/pkgconfig:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH:-}"
+ENV CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="/home/tools:${CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH:-}"
+ENV CPATH="/home/tools/include:${CPATH:-}"
+
+# 1. Compile HDF5
+RUN wget https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.12/hdf5-1.12.3/src/hdf5-1.12.3.tar.bz2 \
+    && tar -xvf hdf5-1.12.3.tar.bz2 \
+    && cd hdf5-1.12.3 \
+    && CFLAGS="-fPIC -Wno-error=format-security" CPPFLAGS="-fPIC" CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx ./configure \
+       --enable-parallel \
+       --prefix=/home/tools \
+       --with-zlib \
+       --disable-shared \
+       --disable-dependency-tracking \
     && make -j$(nproc) && make install
 
+# 2. Build libxsmm (Compiled ONLY on amd64 hosts, cleanly skipped on ARM)
+ARG TARGETARCH
+RUN if [ "$TARGETARCH" = "amd64" ]; then \
+        git clone --depth=1 --single-branch --branch 1.17 https://github.com/libxsmm/libxsmm \
+        && cd libxsmm \
+        && make -j$(nproc) generator \
+        && cp bin/libxsmm_gemm_generator /home/tools/bin/; \
+    else \
+        echo "Skipping libxsmm compilation: target architecture is ARM64 (Apple Silicon). Matrix acceleration will fall back cleanly to PSPaMM."; \
+    fi
+
+# 3. Build NetCDF
 RUN wget --progress=bar:force:noscroll https://downloads.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-c/4.9.2/netcdf-c-4.9.2.tar.gz \
     && tar -xvf netcdf-c-4.9.2.tar.gz \
     && cd netcdf-c-4.9.2 \
-    && CFLAGS="-fPIC" CC=h5pcc ./configure --enable-shared=no --prefix=/home/tools --disable-dap --disable-byterange \
+    && CFLAGS="-fPIC" CC=h5pcc ./configure \
+       --enable-shared=no \
+       --prefix=/home/tools \
+       --disable-dap \
+       --disable-byterange \
+       --disable-libxml2 \
     && make -j$(nproc) && make install
 
+# 4. Build ParMETIS
 RUN wget --progress=bar:force:noscroll https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/p/parmetis/parmetis_4.0.3.orig.tar.gz \
     && tar -xvf parmetis_4.0.3.orig.tar.gz \
     && cd parmetis-4.0.3 \
     && sed -i 's/IDXTYPEWIDTH 32/IDXTYPEWIDTH 64/g' ./metis/include/metis.h \
-    && CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx make config prefix=/home/tools \
+    # Modernize the obsolete CMake version requirement across all internal trees
+    && sed -i 's/cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)/cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)/g' CMakeLists.txt \
+    && sed -i 's/cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)/cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)/g' metis/CMakeLists.txt \
+    # Force the policy bypass engine into the configuration line
+    && CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx make config prefix=/home/tools flags="-DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5" \
     && make -j$(nproc) && make install \
-    && if [ "$TARGETARCH" == "arm64" ]; \
-       then cp build/Linux-aarch64/libmetis/libmetis.a /home/tools/lib; \
-       else cp build/Linux-x86_64/libmetis/libmetis.a /home/tools/lib; fi \
+    # Use architecture-independent wildcards to handle both x86_64 and aarch64 output trees cleanly
+    && cp build/Linux-*/libmetis/libmetis.a /home/tools/lib \
     && cp metis/include/metis.h /home/tools/include
 
+# 5. Build Lua
 RUN wget --progress=bar:force:noscroll https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.6.tar.gz \
     && tar -xzvf lua-5.3.6.tar.gz \
     && cd lua-5.3.6 && make linux CC=mpicc && make local \
     && cp -r install/* /home/tools && cd ..
 
+# 6. Build Eigen
 RUN wget --progress=bar:force:noscroll https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen/-/archive/3.4.0/eigen-3.4.0.tar.gz \
     && tar -xf eigen-3.4.0.tar.gz \
     && cd eigen-3.4.0 && mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/tools \
     && make -j$(nproc) install 
 
+# 7. Build PROJ
 RUN git clone --depth 1 --single-branch --branch 4.9.3 https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ.git \
     && cd PROJ \
+    # 1. Modernize the root CMake requirements
+    && sed -i 's/cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.11)/cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)/g' CMakeLists.txt \
+    # 2. Patch the obsolete link policy to use current standards instead of OLD
+    && sed -i 's/cmake_policy(SET CMP0022 OLD)/cmake_policy(SET CMP0022 NEW)/g' cmake/policies.cmake \
     && mkdir build && cd build \
-    && CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/tools \
+    && CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx cmake .. \
+       -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/tools \
+       -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 \
     && make -j$(nproc) && make install
 
-### Put all dependencies, which point to a specific version, before this comment
-### Put all dependencies, which use the latest version, after this comment to reduce build time
-
+# 8. Build ASAGI
 RUN git clone --recursive https://github.com/TUM-I5/ASAGI.git \
     && cd ASAGI \
     && mkdir build && cd build \
-    && CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/tools -DSHARED_LIB=off -DSTATIC_LIB=on -DNONUMA=on \
+    && CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/tools -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/tools -DSHARED_LIB=off -DSTATIC_LIB=on -DNONUMA=on \
     && make -j$(nproc) && make install
 
+# 9. Build easi
 RUN git clone https://github.com/SeisSol/easi \
     && cd easi \
     && mkdir build && cd build \
-    && CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx cmake .. -DEASICUBE=OFF -DLUA=ON -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/tools -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/tools -DASAGI=ON -DIMPALAJIT=OFF .. \
+    && CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx cmake .. -DEASICUBE=OFF -DLUA=ON -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/tools -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/tools -DASAGI=ON -DIMPALAJIT=OFF \
     && make -j$(nproc) && make install
 
-RUN pip install numpy && pip install git+https://github.com/SeisSol/PSpaMM.git && docker-clean
-
-#RUN git clone --depth 1 --single-branch --branch main https://github.com/libxsmm/libxsmm.git \
-#    && cd libxsmm \
-#    && make PLATFORM=1 JIT=1 AR=aarch64-linux-gnu-ar \
-#       FC=aarch64-linux-gnu-gfortran \
-#       CXX=aarch64-linux-gnu-g++ \
-#       CC=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc \
-#       -j$(nproc) generator \
-#    && cp bin/libxsmm_gemm_generator /home/tools/bin
+# Install PSpaMM via pip3 securely using system bypass flags
+RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir --break-system-packages numpy \
+    && pip3 install --no-cache-dir --break-system-packages git+https://github.com/SeisSol/PSpaMM.git
 
-RUN git clone --recursive --depth 1 --single-branch --branch v1.3.0 https://github.com/SeisSol/SeisSol.git \
+# 10. Build SeisSol (Adaptive Multi-Architecture Evaluator)
+ARG TARGETARCH
+RUN git clone --recursive --depth 1 https://github.com/SeisSol/SeisSol.git \
     && cd SeisSol \
-    && mkdir build_hsw && cd build_hsw \
-    && export PATH=$PATH:/home/tools/bin \
-    && CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/tools -DGEMM_TOOLS_LIST=PSpaMM -DHOST_ARCH=noarch -DASAGI=on -DNETCDF=on -DORDER=4 \
+    && mkdir build_workspace && cd build_workspace \
+    && if [ "$TARGETARCH" = "arm64" ]; then \
+         GEMM_TOOLS="PSpaMM"; \
+         HOST_ARCH="neon"; \
+       else \
+         GEMM_TOOLS=auto; \
+         HOST_ARCH="hsw"; \
+       fi \
+    && PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_LIBS=1 CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx cmake .. \
+       -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/tools \
+       -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/tools/lib \
+       -DCMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/home/tools/include \
+       -DGEMM_TOOLS_LIST="$GEMM_TOOLS" \
+       -DHOST_ARCH="$HOST_ARCH" \
+       -DNEW_BINARY_NAMING=ON \
+       -DASAGI=on -DNETCDF=on -DORDER=4 -DDR_QUAD_RULE_OPTIONS=dunavant \
     && make -j$(nproc) \
     && cmake .. -DEQUATIONS=viscoelastic2 -DNUMBER_OF_MECHANISMS=3 \
     && make -j$(nproc) \
-    && cp SeisSol_* /home/tools/bin
+    && cp seissol-* /home/tools/bin
 
+# 11. Build rconv
 RUN cd SeisSol/preprocessing/science/rconv \
     && mkdir build && cd build \
     && echo "find_package(HDF5 REQUIRED COMPONENTS C HL)" >> ../CMakeLists.txt \
     && echo "target_link_libraries(SeisSol-rconv PUBLIC \${HDF5_C_HL_LIBRARIES} \${HDF5_C_LIBRARIES})" >> ../CMakeLists.txt \
     && CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/tools -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/tools \
     && make -j$(nproc) && cp rconv /home/tools/bin/
 
+# 12. Build PUMGen
 RUN git clone --recursive --branch v1.1.0 https://github.com/SeisSol/PUMGen.git \
     && cd PUMGen \
     && mkdir build && cd build \
-    && cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/tools -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=mpicc -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=mpicxx -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+    && cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/tools -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/tools -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=mpicc -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=mpicxx -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
     && make -j$(nproc) && make install
 
-FROM ghcr.io/seisscoped/container-base:ubuntu22.04_jupyterlab
+
+# ==========================================
+# STAGE 1: Final Lightweight Runtime Image
+# ==========================================
+FROM ubuntu:26.04
+
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 
 RUN apt-get update \
     && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    ca-certificates \
     gmsh \
+    python3-gmsh \
+    python-is-python3 \
     libgomp1 \
     libnuma1 \
-    libocct-data-exchange-7.5 \
-    libocct-foundation-7.5 \
-    libocct-modeling-algorithms-7.5 \
-    libocct-modeling-data-7.5 \
-    libopenblas-base \
-    libtbb2 \
+    libopenblas-dev \
+    libopenmpi-dev \
+    libtbb12 \
     libxrender1 \
     libyaml-cpp-dev \
-    libmpich-dev \
-    mpich \
+    openmpi-bin \
+    python3 \
+    python3-pip \
     tini \
     xvfb \
     zlib1g \
-    && docker-clean 
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-WORKDIR /home
-COPY --from=0 /home/tools tools
-### need to specify --user for gmsh installation, otherwise the tpv13 notebook can't execute !gmsh
-RUN conda install \
+RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir --break-system-packages \
     panel \
     ipyvtklink \
     vtk \
@@ -161,19 +211,21 @@
     scipy \
     pyproj \
     matplotlib \
-    gmsh \
-    python-gmsh \
     sympy \
-    pandas \
-    && docker-clean
-ENV PATH=/home/tools/bin:$PATH
+    pandas
+
+WORKDIR /home
+COPY --from="builder" /home/tools tools
+
+ENV PATH="/home/tools/bin:${PATH:-}"
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/tools/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:-}"
+ENV PYTHONPATH="/home/tools/lib:${PYTHONPATH:-}"
+
 ENV OMP_PLACES="cores"
 ENV OMP_PROC_BIND="spread"
-ENV PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:/home/tools/lib"
+
 COPY entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
-RUN cd /home/tools/bin/ \
-    && mv SeisSol_Release_dnoarch_4_elastic SeisSol_Release_dhsw_4_elastic \
-    && mv SeisSol_Release_dnoarch_4_viscoelastic2 SeisSol_Release_dhsw_4_viscoelastic2
+RUN chmod +x /entrypoint.sh
 
 WORKDIR /home/training
 COPY tpv13/ tpv13/

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -16,20 +16,15 @@ The simplest way to access the input files for the Gateway is by running ``git c
 
 Please install [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/), launch the Docker Desktop and then run
 
-(i) For Frontera and all Intel/AMD machines: 
- -  use label: latest
-
-(ii) Macs with M1/M2/M3 ARM  CPUs: 
-  - use label: hps-2024-remote-arm
 ```bash
-docker pull seissol/training:{label}
+docker pull seissol/training
 ```
 
 ## Training
 
-After installation, run
+After installation, we recommend assigning at least 8 GB of memory to Docker so all simulations run smoothly. Run
 ```bash
-docker run -p 53155:53155 seissol/training:{label}
+docker run --memory=8g -p 53155:53155 seissol/training
 ```
 or run the [start.sh](start.sh) script.
 
@@ -56,6 +51,8 @@ The following tools are currently included:
 - rconv (tool to describe point and finite source models in SeisSol's NetCDF Rupture Format, https://seissol.readthedocs.io/en/latest/standard-rupture-format.html#how-to-use-rconv)
 - SeisSol O4 (pre-compiled SeisSol with 4th order space-time accuracy for elastic and viscoelastic materials, https://seissol.readthedocs.io). We use the SeisSol `v1.0.1`. See the first lines of the SeisSol output to get the exact commit hash.
 
+The SeisSol binaries in the container use new binary naming (e.g., `seissol-cpu-elastic-p4-f64` and `seissol-cpu-viscoelastic-3-p4-f64`).
+
 
 I.e.
 ```

diff --git a/entrypoint.sh b/entrypoint.sh
@@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ case "$1" in
         exec "$@"
     ;;
     seissol)
-        set -- SeisSol_Release_dhsw_4_elastic "${@:2}"
+        set -- seissol-cpu-elastic-p4-f64 "${@:2}"
         exec "$@"
     ;;
     seissol_viscoelastic)
-        set -- SeisSol_Release_dhsw_4_viscoelastic2 "${@:2}"
+        set -- seissol-cpu-viscoelastic-3-p4-f64 "${@:2}"
         exec "$@"
     ;;
     *)

diff --git a/frontera.md b/frontera.md
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ mpirun apptainer run ~/my-training.sif pumgen -s msh2 mesh_northridge.msh
 apptainer run ~/my-training.sif rconv -i northridge_resampled.srf -o northridge_resampled.nrf -x visualization.xdmf -m "+proj=tmerc +datum=WGS84 +k=0.9996 +lon_0=-118.5150 +lat_0=34.3440 +axis=enu"
 OMP_NUM_THREADS=26 mpirun -n 2 apptainer run ~/my-training.sif seissol parameters.par
 ```
-You can change `seissol` to `SeisSol_Release_dhsw_4_viscoelastic2` if you want to account for attenuation (https://seissol.readthedocs.io/en/latest/attenuation.html) instead of assuming a fully elastic rheology.
+You can change `seissol` to `seissol-cpu-viscoelastic-3-p4-f64` if you want to account for attenuation (https://seissol.readthedocs.io/en/latest/attenuation.html) instead of assuming a fully elastic rheology.
 
 In Section `Interacting with Frontera from local machine`, we will also show how you may interact with Frontera from your local machine with a Jupyter Lab.
 
@@ -94,4 +94,3 @@ You can directly visualize the results on Frontera:
 4. In the paraview GUI, open `output/tpv13-fault.xdmf`.
 
 
-
diff --git a/kaikoura/Kaikoura.ipynb b/kaikoura/Kaikoura.ipynb
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
-    "!OMP_NUM_THREADS=4 mpirun -n 1 SeisSol_Release_dhsw_4_elastic parametersLSW.par\n",
+    "!OMP_NUM_THREADS=4 mpirun -n 1 seissol-cpu-elastic-p4-f64 parametersLSW.par\n",
     "# on Frontera with apptainer, replace with:\n",
-    "# !SEISSOL_COMMTHREAD=0 OMP_NUM_THREADS=28 mpirun -n 2 apptainer run {\"~/my-training.sif\"} SeisSol_Release_dhsw_4_elastic parametersLSW.par"
+    "# !SEISSOL_COMMTHREAD=0 OMP_NUM_THREADS=28 mpirun -n 2 apptainer run {\"~/my-training.sif\"} seissol-cpu-elastic-p4-f64 parametersLSW.par"
    ]
   },
   {