<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px;margin-top:0px">Hello. <br><br>Apologies for the cross-posting - I've posted this as a GitHub issue, but I thought I should put it here as well.<br><br>I am trying to build and test the <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0.2em 0.4em;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(27,31,35,0.05);border-radius:6px">global_oce_cs32</code> verification_other exercise using the code in the <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0.2em 0.4em;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(27,31,35,0.05);border-radius:6px">input_ad.sens</code> directory. The forward case compiles and runs without error. The adjoint case (built using TAF) compiles without error, but at runtime I receive the following error in <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0.2em 0.4em;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(27,31,35,0.05);border-radius:6px">STDOUT</code>:</p><pre style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:11.9px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding:16px;overflow:auto;line-height:1.45;background-color:rgb(246,248,250);border-radius:6px;color:rgb(36,41,46)"><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0px;margin:0px;background:initial;border-radius:6px;word-break:normal;border:0px;display:inline;overflow:visible;line-height:inherit">(PID.TID 0000.0001)  MDS_READVEC_LOC: open file: south30_maskT 
(PID.TID 0000.0001)  MDS_RD_REC_RL: iRec,Dim =         9          1
(PID.TID 0000.0001)  MDS_READ_FIELD: filename: adm_boxmean_theta.0000000000.data
(PID.TID 0000.0001)  MDS_READ_FIELD: File does not exist
</code></pre><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px">and this error in <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0.2em 0.4em;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(27,31,35,0.05);border-radius:6px">STDERR</code>:</p><pre style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:11.9px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding:16px;overflow:auto;line-height:1.45;background-color:rgb(246,248,250);border-radius:6px;color:rgb(36,41,46)"><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0px;margin:0px;background:initial;border-radius:6px;word-break:normal;border:0px;display:inline;overflow:visible;line-height:inherit">(PID.TID 0000.0001) *** ERROR ***  MDS_READ_FIELD: filename: adm_boxmean_theta.0000000000.data
(PID.TID 0000.0001) *** ERROR ***  MDS_READ_FIELD: File does not exist
</code></pre><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px">My MITgcm source code is up-to-date with the master. I am running on <a href="https://www.archer.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:initial;color:rgb(3,102,214);text-decoration-line:none">archer.ac.uk</a> in parallel mode using 24 cores.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0px">What should I try here? I haven't run into this error before using other adjoint setups, at least not that I can recall. Should I just create an empty "dummy" file to start with? Thanks in advance for any help/guidance.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Dan</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0px"><br></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>Dr Dan Jones / British Antarctic Survey</div><div><a href="http://www.danjonesocean.com" target="_blank">danjonesocean.com</a> / @DanJonesOcean</div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>