Thanks a lot for taking part to this project. Concerning the physics prerequisites, don’t worry. There is simply none of them. The idea is to move on slowly, together, so that I could explain everything in due time. At the end of the adventure, I am sure that you will understand (almost) everything. Somehow, we can see this project as an option to learn by practice.

I am happy to read that you managed to solve the Fortran issue. I assume the problems were all related to the old operating system you had on our Linux machine. Also, I apologise for not having indicated this in the initial post. I simply forgot, but this was pointed out by several participants, in particular @eniolw and @servelle who went into this quite early. The post had been updated with this respect at the end of last week.

Concerning the virtual machine, a 10 GB fixed disk space may be too small. The problem is that we will need to generate huge intermediate temporary files of several GBs. Those files won’t be stored on disk forever, but we need to store them at least during the time we post-process them. I will explain that in details in due time.

Finally, I have updated my post with information on boost and build-essential. Thanks for pointing this out. This is something I knew, but forgot ;)

Thanks a gain for this very nice and useful report!

Cheers!