[Mitgcm-support] Re: joinmds on Alpha

Wed Jul 9 15:56:21 EDT 2003

Hi, Arne,

Have you got the chance run
$ perl -V
before upgrading, as suggested by Chris?
If you have it, please send the output. Otherwise, never mind.
I believe the script should work properly even with perl 4.0.

Zhangfan

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Arne Biastoch wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 