[MITgcm-support] MITgcm now uses NetCDF (was: Re: testreport on G4, mnc)

[Yuan Lian]

Hi, Ed,

Just curious, will NetCDF be able to deal with outputs from runs with MPI?
I haven't tried to use NetCDF yet but I prefer to use it for later data
processing. Thanks!

-Yuan

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Ed Hill wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 05:41, Martin Losch wrote:
> > Hi Ed,
> > my Mac G4 PowerBook just completed a testreport with a lot fails (I
> > used  the -addr option!). I have the impression that all experiments
> > that did not compile have a data.mnc in them and the netcdf.inc was not
> > found. What could be going on?
>
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> I'm moving this response over to the support list since a lot of users
> will probably want to see it.
>
> We're becoming more serious about NetCDF and have added it to the
> following verification experiments:
>
>   aim.5l_cs, dic_example, exp0, global_ocean.90x40x15,
>   hs94.cs-32x32x5
>
> So to get them all to pass you will need to first install NetCDF.  Its
> really easy.  The commands for the Mac with g77 are:
>
>   $  wget ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-3.5.1.tar.Z
>   $  gunzip netcdf-3.5.1.tar.Z
>   $  tar -xvf netcdf-3.5.1.tar
>   $  cd netcdf-3.5.1/src/
>   $  export CFLAGS="-Df2cFortran -fPIC"
>   $  export CPPFLAGS="-DNDEBUG -Df2cFortran -fPIC"
>   $  ./configure --prefix=/usr
>   $  make
>   $  sudo make install
>
> and this was verified yesterday on a brand-new dual-G5.
>
> For Linux systems using g77 as the compiler, you can do the same
> source-based install as above or you can use convenient binary RPMs
> available at:
>
>   http://mitgcm.org/eh3/packages/
>
> which have been tested on RH 8 and 9, Fedora Core 1 and 2, and SuSE
> 9.x.  I've become the official packager of NetCDF for Fedora Extras and
> it will soon appear in the list of available packages at:
>
>   http://www.fedora.us/
>
> For non-g77 installs, you may have to use a slightly different set of
> compiler flags.  I've installed NetCDF for the following compilers:
>
>   Intel ifc v5.x, v6.x, 7.x;  Intel ifort v8.0;  Intel efc
>   PGI v3.2
>
> and the NetCDF home pages have plenty of details on how to get it
> working on other systems:
>
>   http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/index.html
>   http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/INSTALL.html
>
> If you run into any problems, please let us know and we'll try to help.
>
> Ed
>
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