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3    ================
4    ===  WARNING ===
5    ================
6    
7    
8    For MITgcm Users :
9    
10    This directory (MITgcm/doc) does *NOT* contain the primary user
11    documentation for the MITgcm code.  We strongly suggest that you forgo
12    the effort of downloading and "building" the documentation in the
13    different formats (pdf, html, etc.) and instead read and/or download
14    the documentation which is conveniently referenced from the main web
15    site at:
16    
17      http://mitgcm.org
18    
19    
20    
21    For MITgcm Developers:
22    
23    If you wish to customize or extend the MITgcm code, this directory
24    contains a "HOWTO" document that tries to explain:
25    
26      + where the code, documentation, and test/verification
27        data sets are arranged within the CVS repository;
28    
29      + how to run the verification tests;
30    
31      + how to get help from the core developers; and
32    
33      + how to best integrate your work with the overall project.
34    
35    
36    The document is available in SGML source within this directory:
37    
38      devel_HOWTO.sgml
39    
40    and in various formats on our web site:
41    
42      http://mitgcm.org/dev_docs/devel_HOWTO/
43    
44    
45    
46    
47    ======================================================================
48    ===  WARNING :  The following has been superseeded by the on-line  ===
49    ===             documentation at:  http://mitgcm.org               ===
50    ======================================================================
51    
52    
53  MITgcmUV Getting Started  MITgcmUV Getting Started
54  ========================  ========================
55    
56  o Introduction  o Introduction
57    
58  o References    This note is a guide to using the MIT General Circulation Model Ultra Verstaile
59      implementation, MITgmcUV. MITgcmUV is a Fortran code that implements the
60      algorithm described in Marshall et. al. 1997, Hill, Adcroft, ...
61       The MITgcmUV implementation is designed to work efficiently on all classes
62      of computer platforms. It can be used in both a single processor mode
63      and a parallel processor mode. Parallel processing can be either multi-threaded
64      shared memory such as that found on CRAY T90 machines or it can be multi-process
65      distributed memory. A set of "execution enviroment" support routines are
66      used to allow the same numerical code to run on top of a single-process, multi-threaded
67      or distributed multi-process configuration.
68    
69    o Installing
70      To setup the model on a particular computer the code tree must be created
71      and appropriate compile and run scripts set up. For some platforms
72      the necessary scripts are included in the release - in this case follow
73      the steps below:
74    
75      1. Extract MITgcmUV from the downloadable archive
76         tar -xvf cNN.tar
77    
78      2. Create platform specific make file
79         For example on a Digital UNIX machine the script "genmake" can
80         be used as shown below
81    
82         cd bin
83         ../tools/genmake
84         cp Makefile.alpha Makefile                  ( On Alpha machine)
85    
86      3. Now create header file dependency entries
87         make depend
88    
89      4. Compile code
90         make
91    
92      5. To run the model with example data see the "README" in each of
93         the example experiments in ../verification/exp*/
94         e.g.  ../verification/exp2/README
95      
96    
97    o Running
98    
99      - Input and output files
100    
101        Required files
102        ==============
103        The model is configured to look for two files with fixed names.
104        These files are called
105         "eedata" and "data".
106        The file eedata contains "execution environment" data. At present
107        this consists of a specification of the number of threads to
108        use in X and Y under multithreaded execution.
109    
110      - Serial execution
111    
112      - Parallel execution. MPI
113        mPx, nPy
114        dmpirun
115    
116      - Parallel execution. Threads
117        nSx, nSy
118        setenv PARALLEL n
119        nTx=2, nTy=2
120    
121      - Parallel execution. Hybrid
122    
123    o Cutomising the code
124    
125      Model structure
126      ===============
127      The "numerical" model is contained within a execution
128      environment support wrapper. This wrapper is designed
129      to provide a general framework for grid-point models.
130      MITgcmUV is a specific numerical model that uses the
131      framework.
132       Under this structure the model is split into
133      execution environment support code and conventional
134      numerical model code. The execution environment
135      support code is held under the "eesupp" directory.
136      The grid point model code is held under the
137      "model" directory.
138       Code execution actually starts in the eesupp
139      routines and not in the model routines. For this
140      reason the top level main.F is in the eesupp/src
141      directory. End-users should not need to worry about
142      this level. The top-level routine for the numerical
143      part of the code is in model/src/the_model_main.F.
144    
145    
146    o References
147      Web sites - HP
148      for doc     Digital
149                  SGI
150                  Sun
151                  Linux threads
152                  CRAY multitasking
153                  PPT notes

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