[MITgcm-support] IBM

[Chris Hill]

Hmmm, not sure what you mean - we'll take a closer look when we get some IBM
access back. Let us know what you think needs to be done (if anything) to
tidy this up.

Thanks,

Chris 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org 
> [mailto:mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Martin Losch
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 10:29 AM
> To: mitgcm-support at mitgcm.org
> Subject: Re: [MITgcm-support] IBM
> 
> 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, 
> >> http://ohm.apl.washington.edu/~girton
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