[MITgcm-support] Re: compiling MITgcm

[Patrick Heimbach]

Hi there,

getting the model to run on an Altix
should not require a sys admin guy.
It has been run on quite a few Altix systems.

Only thing you need to know is
* which compiler? (full path to compiler)
  In case it's ifort (likely),  find out whether
  is it version befor 8, or 8 onwards (usually apparent in path name)
* which mpi?
  (full path to lib/ and include/ directory)

Then, take one of the optfiles on tools/build_options/ e.g.
o linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas (if it's ifort-8...)
o linux_ia64_efc+mpi_altix (if it's ifort-7 or below)
and customize these few variables to your Altix.

Then compile, run, and send your sys-admin guy skiing :o)

-Patrick



Quoting Kelvin Richards <rkelvin at hawaii.edu>:

> Ed,
> 
> I have managed to get MITgcm working on my Sun (getting it to work on 
> our Altix machine is work in progres for our overworked system admin guys).
> 
> I want to configure the model as a periodic channel centred on the 
> equator (to extend my work on inertial instability to 3D). The closest 
> examples are exp4 (an open channel) and exp5 (a doubly periodic box). I 
> see references to the Orlanski open bc in exp4 and 'PWX', Periodic wrap 
> around in X, in exp5, but no obvious way of setting the bc's on the 
> lateral boundaries. As far as I can see, there is no mention of b.c.s in 
> the mitgcm_manual. Is there any documentation on b.c.'s and how to set 
> them? Or an easy way to change the open channel to a periodic one?
> 
> Regards
> Kelvin
> 
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