[MITgcm-devel] sx8 latest testing

[Jean-Michel Campin]

Hi Martin,

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:06:00PM +0100, Martin Losch wrote:
> Hi Jean-Michel,
> 
> I don't know why the job on iblade did not start on the weekend, probably a problem with cron, I started on "by hand" to if anything works.
> 
> About the SX8: I think I found a solution to the many fails: I reversed the order in which I "cat" "NORMAL END" into run.log and the copying of STDOUT.0000 to output.txt, so that the cp is the last command in the job script. That should do it.
> 
> You new -norun flag does not work for on the SX8, unfortunately. I do have make on the compute nodes, but that make thinks it needs to relink and regenerate the executable, which spoils everything ... I don't know why I always have to deal with broken installations.

OK, it could be that the compute node has a different feeling about time,
and then it's hard to make it change its mind. But what matter is that 
you managed to make it work the other way.

Thanks,
Jean-Michel

> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 16, 2010, at 11:15 PM, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
> 
> > Hi Martin,
> > 
> > I think we can live with a single output file for diagnostics,
> > even with binary (MDS) output. Just to remind that the list of
> > fields are stored in the meta files and can be loaded in matlab
> > with rdmds.m, so should be OK.
> > 
> > By the way, I've just check-in the -nr option for testreport,
> > but still depend on whether or not you can run the command "make"
> > on compute node when there is nothing to build.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jean-Michel
> > 
> > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:55:19PM +0100, Martin Losch wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> back to SX8: I'll change data.diagnostics in offline_exf_seaice:
> >> about lab_sea: I can change the data.diagnostics, too, but then, the MDS-output in the other three sub-experiments is awkard (although I have no problem with that).
> >> Or maybe I can supress the standard output for the first experiment by
> >> dumpFreq = 0.,
> >> tavefreq = 0.,
> >> dumpInitAndLast = .false.
> >> 
> >> What's your opinion?
> >> 
> >> Martin
> >> 
> >> On Jan 16, 2010, at 9:13 PM, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Hi Martin,
> >>> 
> >>> Sorry, I miss the 2nd message you sent the other day (on Jan 12).
> >>> 
> >>> Regarding point 1:
> >>> I agree, it would be better to change data.diagnostics to much fewer 
> >>> files, go for it. 
> >>> Not sure about turning off mnc for standard lab_sea (since it's the only 
> >>> forward test with full seaice and MNC). 
> >>> If you try also to change data.diagnostics in the same way, would this
> >>> work ?
> >> 
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