[Mitgcm-support] RE: pkg/seaice and pkg/exf

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Tom and Dimitris

 joinpickup could be something Steph or Helen wrote for this
configuration - maybe?

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dimitris Menemenlis [mailto:menemenlis at jpl.nasa.gov] 
> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 9:37 PM
> To: Tom Haine
> Cc: MITgcm support
> Subject: Re: pkg/seaice and pkg/exf
> 
> 
> 
> >> (ii) It's rather inconvenient for joinpickup not to work 
> with the seaice
> >> pickups. Unless there's a policy to phase out parallel I/O 
> it seems like a
> >> backwards step not to maintain the join utility
> 
> I have never used the joinpickup so I can't help you there.
> 
> >> (or change seaice_pickup.F).  If parallel I/O is to be 
> phased out I'd
> >> appreciate a startup error message that stops the code if 
> seaice is on but
> >> singleCpuIO is off.
> 
> There is nothing wrong with seaice_pickup.F.  It works both 
> with multi-file or
> with single-file I/O in the ecaxt same way as checkpoint.F.  
> It's just that
> the number of sea-ice variables is different from the 
> standard pickup files.
> If you run on the same number of CPUs all the time, there is 
> no need to join
> the pick-up files, just rename to their appropriate permanent 
> checkpoint name.
> 
> Dimitris
> 
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