MAST runs on various flavors of Unix and can leverage MPI for distributed memory parallelism.

The required list of dependencies includes

hdf5
boost
eigen3
cmake
MPI
PETSc
SLEPc
libMesh

These dependencies can be installed from an automated package manager before proceeding with installation of MAST. It is recommended that PETSc be installed with support for direct sparse solvers, such as MUMPS, SuperLU_dist or Pardiso.

Given that a large number of dependencies are required for MAST, it is strongly recommended that an automated package manager be used to install the dependencies listed above.

On Mac OS Macports and HomeBrew have been used with good success to install all dependencies except libMesh since no recipe/port has been created for libMesh in these package managers (as of Feb 2019).
Spack is a python-based package manager that can install MAST and all dependencies.

Specific instructions for installation are provided in these pages