[MITgcm-support] about computer

[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 11:41 +0100, Nataliya Stashchuk wrote:
> Hi Folks, 
> 
> I am going to start calculations with MITgcm on workstation and I want
> to use Laptop as a tool for small calculations with MITgcm.
> 
> What configuration of workstation and Laptop you can recommend me?

Hi Nataliya,

The MITgcm model was developed with maximum portability as a goal.  We
want it to "run on everything including your toaster".

That said, its usually easiest to get MITgcm running on Linux machines.
Many of the MITgcm developers use laptops with either Intel or AMD chips
and run Fedora Linux:

  http://fedora.redhat.com/

either natively or within a VMWare virtual machine:

  http://www.vmware.com/

And, as an academic, you can get free high-perfromance compilers from
Intel:

http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/compilers/219760.htm

Recent Fedora Core versions (3 & 4) have support for netCDF, ncview,
NCO, cdo, etc. through the Fedora Extras repository.  Installing them is
quite easy, you just use a single command as root:

  yum install netcdf-devel netcdf nco ...etc...

after installing Fedora Core.

And you can use MITgcm on a laptop running other Linux distros, Mac OSX,
or even Windows XP w/ the Cygwin (GNU on Windows) environment
( http://www.cygwin.com/ ).  The above is just one approach.

Ed

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