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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    ===  WARNING :  The following has been superseeded by the on-line  ===
48    ===             documentation at:  http://mitgcm.org               ===
49    ======================================================================
50    
51    
52  MITgcmUV Getting Started  MITgcmUV Getting Started
53  ========================  ========================
54    
55  o Introduction  o Introduction
56    
57  o References    This note is a guide to using the MIT General Circulation Model Ultra Verstaile
58      implementation, MITgmcUV. MITgcmUV is a Fortran code that implements the
59      algorithm described in Marshall et. al. 1997, Hill, Adcroft, ...
60       The MITgcmUV implementation is designed to work efficiently on all classes
61      of computer platforms. It can be used in both a single processor mode
62      and a parallel processor mode. Parallel processing can be either multi-threaded
63      shared memory such as that found on CRAY T90 machines or it can be multi-process
64      distributed memory. A set of "execution enviroment" support routines are
65      used to allow the same numerical code to run on top of a single-process, multi-threaded
66      or distributed multi-process configuration.
67    
68    o Installing
69      To setup the model on a particular computer the code tree must be created
70      and appropriate compile and run scripts set up. For some platforms
71      the necessary scripts are included in the release - in this case follow
72      the steps below:
73    
74      1. Extract MITgcmUV from the downloadable archive
75         tar -xvf cNN.tar
76    
77      2. Create platform specific make file
78         For example on a Digital UNIX machine the script "genmake" can
79         be used as shown below
80    
81         cd bin
82         ../tools/genmake
83         cp Makefile.alpha Makefile                  ( On Alpha machine)
84    
85      3. Now create header file dependency entries
86         make depend
87    
88      4. Compile code
89         make
90    
91      5. To run the model with example data see the "README" in each of
92         the example experiments in ../verification/exp*/
93         e.g.  ../verification/exp2/README
94      
95    
96    o Running
97    
98      - Input and output files
99    
100        Required files
101        ==============
102        The model is configured to look for two files with fixed names.
103        These files are called
104         "eedata" and "data".
105        The file eedata contains "execution environment" data. At present
106        this consists of a specification of the number of threads to
107        use in X and Y under multithreaded execution.
108    
109      - Serial execution
110    
111      - Parallel execution. MPI
112        mPx, nPy
113        dmpirun
114    
115      - Parallel execution. Threads
116        nSx, nSy
117        setenv PARALLEL n
118        nTx=2, nTy=2
119    
120      - Parallel execution. Hybrid
121    
122    o Cutomising the code
123    
124      Model structure
125      ===============
126      The "numerical" model is contained within a execution
127      environment support wrapper. This wrapper is designed
128      to provide a general framework for grid-point models.
129      MITgcmUV is a specific numerical model that uses the
130      framework.
131       Under this structure the model is split into
132      execution environment support code and conventional
133      numerical model code. The execution environment
134      support code is held under the "eesupp" directory.
135      The grid point model code is held under the
136      "model" directory.
137       Code execution actually starts in the eesupp
138      routines and not in the model routines. For this
139      reason the top level main.F is in the eesupp/src
140      directory. End-users should not need to worry about
141      this level. The top-level routine for the numerical
142      part of the code is in model/src/the_model_main.F.
143    
144    
145    o References
146      Web sites - HP
147      for doc     Digital
148                  SGI
149                  Sun
150                  Linux threads
151                  CRAY multitasking
152                  PPT notes

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