[MITgcm-devel] new TAF version

[Patrick Heimbach]

Hi Jean-Michel,

thanks for the heads-up.
Might still be worth asking Fastopt what in TAF has changed that causes these small changes, even if just for documentation purposes.

Cheers
-Patrick

On Jun 19, 2015, at 6:29 PM, Jean-Michel Campin <jmc at ocean.mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This morning (~8.am), staf switched to a new TAF version: 2.9.0
> (was 2.8.16 before)
> This does introduce little changes (at machine truncation level) as
> shown by testreport run on ref. platform (i.e., baudelaire with gfortran)
> where all except 1 experiment pass with 13 or more identical digits for AD-grad.
> 
> The only one that now fails (@ 6 digits) is the main lab_sea exp.
> but it has always been very sensitive.
> 
> Since I am not ready to update the lab_sea output_adm (+ tlm ?) now,
> and since Martin made a little changes in pkg/seaice today, I will 
> force lab_sea to stay with version 2.8.16 for tonight tests ;
> And sometime this WE will move back to (new) default TAF version for lab_sea 
> (+ update the output_adm.txt there).
> 
> Cheers,
> Jean-Michel
> 
> Experiments that show some changes after switching to TAF 2.9.0
> (were all 16 with previous TAF version):
> Y Y Y Y 16>13<16 pass  1D_ocean_ice_column  (e=0, w=2)
> Y Y Y Y 16>14<16 pass  global_ocean.90x40x15  (e=0, w=13)
> Y Y Y Y 16>14<16 pass  global_ocean.90x40x15.bottomdrag
> Y Y Y Y 16>15<16 pass  halfpipe_streamice  (e=0, w=8)
> Y Y Y Y 16> 6<16 FAIL  lab_sea  (e=0, w=7)
> Y Y Y Y 16>14<16 pass  lab_sea.noseaicedyn
> Y Y Y Y 16>15<16 pass  obcs_ctrl  (e=0, w=0)
> 
> 
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