[MITgcm-support] Compiling MITGCM passive tracer experiment

[Menemenlis, Dimitris (3248)]

staf is a script that accesses TAF, an adjoint model compiler
sold by FASTOPT (http://www.fastopt.de/)
and a follow-on of TAMC

Dimitris Menemenlis

On Jun 7, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Yuan Lian wrote:

Hi Neill,

I am not familiar with the adjoint model but apparently STAF (Software testing automation framework) and TAMC (Tangent linear and adjoint model compiler) need to be installed. Both are open source softwares.

STAF
http://staf.sourceforge.net/

TAMC
www.autodiff.com/tamc/<http://www.autodiff.com/tamc/>

It would be nice if MITgcm manual can provide a little more information about software requirements though.

Yuan


On 6/7/11 8:53 AM, Neill Mackay wrote:
Hi,

I’m in the early stages of learning how to use the MITGCM for a tracer experiment. In attempting to compile the passive tracer experiment in the directory ‘tutorial_tracer_adjsens’ under ‘verification’, I’m following the instructions in the ‘README’ file for compiling:

Configure and compile the code:
  cd build
  ../../../tools/genmake2 -mods ../code_ad -adof=../../../tools/adjoint_options/adjoint_staf [-of my_platform_optionFile]
  make depend
  make adall

The first two commands work OK (I am using the attached option file ‘gnu’ inherited from a colleague), but the ‘make’ fails with the following error:

make: staf: Command not found
make: *** [ad_taf_output.f] Error 127

I’ve contacted our IT support for the HPC cluster here at UEA on which I am running the MIT GCM, but they are not familiar with the ‘staf compiler’ (as mentioned in your manual pages section 3.4.2). Is this a third party package that needs to be installed, and if so where can I find it? If it’s included in the MIT GCM tar ball, how do I go about making use of it?

Thanks very much for any help you can provide.

Regards,

Neill Mackay.


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