[Mitgcm-support] joinmds pickup problem

[mitgcm-support at dev.mitgcm.org]

Hi, 

I'm trying to pick up a 16 processor calculation by joining the individual
pickup files with joinmds (ver 0.3.0):

joinmds pickup 0000904320

works OK, except the file I get (pickup.0000904320.data) is the same size
as the individual files used to create it
(pickup.0000904320.00?.00?.data). And, I can't restart the calculation
with pickup.0000904320.data:

 attempt to read non-existent record (direct access).
 File name = pickup.0000904320 unformatted, direct access record = 56450
 In source file mdsio_readfield.f, at line number 1453

When I do:

joinmds T 0000904320

I get T.0000904320.data that's 16x bigger than each tile, as I expect.

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

Also, does anyone have scripts to automate the joinmds process?  Reducing
the tens of thousands of output files by 32x would help. And running each
joinmds by hand isn't practical!

Thanks, Tom.
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