[Beowulf] Openfoam advice

[Faraz Hussain]

I know OpenFOAM is probably one of the most challenging and intricate  
softwares to build and run.. I have been tasked with installing it on  
a system to test how long some benchmark models run on 100 -> 1000  
cores. My questions are:

1) Can I build this as a user, i.e non-root?
2) Can I build it with no GUI support, i.e no paraview?
3) What are some good benchmarks I can run that will scale to 1000 cores?

Thanks!