[Mitgcm-support] Re: joinmds on Alpha

Wed Jul 9 15:55:39 EDT 2003

Hi Chris,

got the error. Perl 5.001 was too old. After installing the most recent 
version (v5.6.1) everything worked fine.

Thanks for your help.

-Arne

Chris Hill wrote:

> Hi Arne,
> 
>  I tested on an Alpha machine here with 512MB memory. It appeared to work
> fine.
> 
> Attached is text output from
> joinmds T 0000000144
> 
> attachment also gives my shell limits at the bottom.
> OS revision is OSF1 4.0 878.
> perl -v gives
> 5.004_03
> 
> Not sure what your problem could be. This script is usually very reliable.
> 
> Chris
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arne Biastoch" <abiastoch at ifm.uni-kiel.de>
> To: "Chris Hill" <cnh at plume.mit.edu>; "Alistair Adcroft" <adcroft at mit.edu>;
> <xing at pacific.jpl.nasa.gov>
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:35 AM
> Subject: Re: joinmds on Alpha
> 
> 
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>did anyone of you find an explanation for the failing joinmdsr?
>>Or a solution?
>>
>>-Arne
>>
>>
>>Chris Hill wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Arne,
>>>
>>> If you have time to transfer files to
>>>
>>> biastoch at eliot.lcs.mit.edu:/export/d15/biastoch
>>>
>>> I can try a quick test on one of our Alphas.
>>>
>>>Chris
>>>Alistair Adcroft wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Arne,
>>>>
>>>>We run joinmds on Alpha's here. Are you trying merge the Cray files on
>>>>
> the Alpha
> 
>>>>or Alpha files on the Alpha? The big/little endian thing hasn't been a
>>>>
> problem
> 
>>>>before.
>>>>It sounds more like either a perl problem or a shell memory problem.
>>>>
>>>>Try "unlimit" to remove all stacksizes etc....
>>>>
>>>>What version of perl are you using?
>>>>
>>>>perl -v
>>>>
>>>>Try using the -d option (debugger) to see where it dies.
>>>>
>>>>I'll copy this to  Zhangfan (xing at pacific.jpl.nasa.gov) who wrote the
>>>>
> script.
> 
>>>>Alistair.
>>>>
>>>>Arne Biastoch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hi Alistair,
>>>>>
>>>>>greetings from Germany. After almost two month to be back in Kiel I try
>>>>>to stand all MOM fetishists and to continue - at least from time to
>>>>>
> time
> 
>>>>>- working with MITgcmUV.
>>>>>
>>>>>My first runs on a Cray T3E were successful (though I had to modify
>>>>>
> some
> 
>>>>>details in the MPI routines: MPI_REAL4 and MPI_REAL8 are not available
>>>>>and had to be changed to MI_REAL and MPI_DOUBLEPRECISION).
>>>>>
>>>>>But I ran into a problem merging the local files to global ones on a
>>>>>
> DEC
> 
>>>>>Alpha. Using the joinmds (actually an older one called joinmdsr)
>>>>>
> routine
> 
>>>>>gave the following:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>
>>Dr. Arne Biastoch
>>
>>Institute for Marine Research         phone: ++49 431 600-4013
>>FB1 Ocean Circulation and Climate     fax  : ++49 431 600-1515
>>Duesternbrooker Weg 20                email: abiastoch at ifm.uni-kiel.de
>>24105 Kiel, Germany
>>
>>http://www.ifm.uni-kiel.de/to/data/pers/abiastoch.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>Name "main::nrecords_" used only once: possible typo at head/utils/scripts/joinmds line 182.
>>There are 25 datasets.
>>All existing meta files are self- and mutually consistent.
>>Datasets are complete.
>>Current machine's endianness: little-endian
>>T.0000000144.001.001.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.001.002.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.001.003.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.001.004.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.001.005.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.002.001.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.002.002.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.002.003.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.002.004.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.002.005.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.003.001.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.003.002.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.003.003.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.003.004.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.003.005.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.004.001.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.004.002.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.004.003.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.004.004.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.004.005.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.005.001.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.005.002.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.005.003.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.005.004.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>T.0000000144.005.005.data: 453600 bytes, okay, merged from .
>>Global data (450x210x30) is in ./T.0000000144.data (endianness is big-endian).
>>cputime 	unlimited
>>filesize 	unlimited
>>datasize 	2097152 kbytes
>>stacksize 	1048576 kbytes
>>coredumpsize 	unlimited
>>memoryuse 	503456 kbytes
>>vmemoryuse 	2097152 kbytes
>>descriptors 	4096 
>>

-- 

Dr. Arne Biastoch

Institute for Marine Research         phone: ++49 431 600-4013
FB1 Ocean Circulation and Climate     fax  : ++49 431 600-1515
Duesternbrooker Weg 20                email: abiastoch at ifm.uni-kiel.de
24105 Kiel, Germany

http://www.ifm.uni-kiel.de/to/data/pers/abiastoch.html