Beast and Beagle installation in a Linux server

These instructions are valid for a Linux server running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, with 2 Intel Xeon processors and 2 Nvidia GPUs. They are are based on those found in the Beast and Beagle sites, plus my own experience.

The first thing I had to do was to get all the dependencies right, for which I run the following

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool subversion pkg-config openjdk-6-jdk

Once these were all in place, I tried using the NVIDIA OpenCL implementation which was accessible via the apt-get command. However, I was unable to install the Beagle library so that it was recognized. Tests systematically failed. Hence, I resorted to the Intel implementation of OpenCL. After the download, this can be easily installed

cd opencl_runtime_16.1.1_x64_ubuntu_6.4.0.25/
sudo bash install.sh

Then I went back to the installation of the Beagle library.

./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix="/opt/beast/beagle-lib" --with-opencl="/opt/intel/opencl/lib64"
sudo make install

In order to check whether I was getting the correct functionality I run the test suite

make check

Finally all went well. So that allowed running the downloaded Beast executable available here.