[MITgcm-support] New User

[Constantinos Evangelinos]

On Saturday 28 November 2009 09:09:23 pm Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:
> Venkat, when you download the MITgcm, you will find a directory called
> MITgcm/tools/build_options which contains suggested default set ups for
> many different operating systems and compilers.
>
> I am not familiar with all the setups but as far as I am aware no one has
> used visual Fortran or Windows to compile the MITgcm yet.
>
> If you want to run MITgcm on a Windows platform you will either have to
> install and dual-boot a linux distro (the preferred option) or you can use
> cygwin (works but much slower).

There is a 3rd option of running Linux on a virtual machine (VMware, VirtualPC 
or other) on your Windows box and running it from within there. The 
performance penalty should not be that high unless you do a lot of I/O.

Constantinos
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Dr. Constantinos Evangelinos
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology