[MITgcm-support] IBM

[Martin Losch]

Yes, but not for xlf for AIX, there you can only switch between "old" 
and "new" -style namelists, where "old" means something very 
IBM-specific.

M.

On Friday, May 7, 2004, at 04:17 PM, Chris Hill wrote:

> Martin/James,
>
>  There is an options setting these days that does that automatically 
> for
> some platforms.
>  See tools/build_options/linux_ia32_lf95. The CPP option 
> -DNML_TERMINATOR
> makes the switch.
>
>  BTW - we had been using NCAR for our IBM testing, but they have been 
> out of
> service for the last month due to security problems at NCAR. Ed, 
> Patrick and
> I will talk about getting some time at BU to do testing.
>
> Chris
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org
>> [mailto:mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of James
>> B. Girton
>> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 10:08 AM
>> To: mitgcm-support at mitgcm.org
>> Subject: Re: [MITgcm-support] IBM
>>
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> I've been using an IBM at Boston University and remember
>> having some issues like this at the start. One thing I had to
>> do was change all of the namelist termination characters in
>> data, data.obcs, etc., from "&"
>> to "/".
>>
>> -James
>>
>>
>> Martin Losch wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am supposed to do some test runs on our "IBM Regatta" computer,
>>> which is a test computer for a different much bigger IBM system.
>>> uname -a gives
>>> AIX edvir1 1 5 0010117A4C00
>>> and the avaible compiler is xlf, so I guess I should use the sp3 or
>>> sp4 build_options file. With sp4, I get this:
>>> 1. cc not found (Argh! Apparently there's a gcc and xlc but
>> no cc, so
>>> there should be a way to include CC='gcc' into the options file) I
>>> solved that by modifying the makefile to include CC=gcc or aliasing
>>> gcc to cc 2. Code compiles fine, but when I run it I get:
>>>
>>>> 1525-090 The NAMELIST READ statement cannot be completed
>> because an
>>>> incorrect character was encountered in a NAMELIST group
>> name or item
>>>> name.  The program will recover by discontinuing further
>> processing
>>>> of the READ statement.
>>>
>>> as often as a namelist is read and then the model explodes after 4
>>> timesteps
>>>
>>> Any experience with this? Would you like me to run
>> testscript with the
>>> -addr option?
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> James B. Girton, Postdoctoral Investigator Department of
>> Physical Oceanography, MS 29 Woods Hole Oceanographic
>> Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543 Clark 214B, Phone:
>> 508-289-2632, FAX: 508-457-2163 girton at whoi.edu,
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