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1 edhill 1.2 \section{Monitor: Simulation state monitoring toolkit}
2 molod 1.1 \label{sec:pkg:monitor}
3     \begin{rawhtml}
4     <!-- CMIREDIR:package_monitor: -->
5     \end{rawhtml}
6    
7 edhill 1.3
8 edhill 1.4 \subsection{Introduction}
9 edhill 1.3 \label{sec:pkg:monitor:overview}
10    
11    
12     The \texttt{monitor} package is primarily intended as a convenient
13     method for calculating and writing the following statistics:
14     \begin{center}
15     minimum, maximum, mean, and standard deviation
16     \end{center}
17     for spatially distributed fields. By default, \texttt{monitor} output
18     is sent to the ``standard output'' channel where it appears as ASCII
19     text containing a \texttt{\%MON} string such as this example:
20     \begin{verbatim}
21     (PID.TID 0000.0001) %MON time_tsnumber = 3
22     (PID.TID 0000.0001) %MON time_secondsf = 3.6000000000000E+03
23     (PID.TID 0000.0001) %MON dynstat_eta_max = 1.0025466645951E-03
24     (PID.TID 0000.0001) %MON dynstat_eta_min = -1.0008899950901E-03
25     (PID.TID 0000.0001) %MON dynstat_eta_mean = 2.1037438449350E-14
26     (PID.TID 0000.0001) %MON dynstat_eta_sd = 5.0985228723396E-04
27     (PID.TID 0000.0001) %MON dynstat_eta_del2 = 3.5216706549525E-07
28     (PID.TID 0000.0001) %MON dynstat_uvel_max = 3.7594045977254E-05
29     (PID.TID 0000.0001) %MON dynstat_uvel_min = -2.8264287531564E-05
30     (PID.TID 0000.0001) %MON dynstat_uvel_mean = 9.1369201945671E-06
31     (PID.TID 0000.0001) %MON dynstat_uvel_sd = 1.6868439193567E-05
32     (PID.TID 0000.0001) %MON dynstat_uvel_del2 = 8.4315445301916E-08
33     \end{verbatim}
34     The \texttt{monitor} text can be readily parsed by the
35     \texttt{testreport} script to determine, somewhat crudely but quickly,
36     how similar the output from two experiments are when run on different
37     platforms or before/after code changes.
38    
39     The \texttt{monitor} output can also be useful for quickly diagnosing
40     practical problems such as CFL limitations, model progress (through
41     iteration counts), and behavior within some packages that use it.
42    
43    
44     \subsection{Using Monitor}
45     \label{sec:pkg:monitor:using}
46    
47     As with most packages, \texttt{monitor} can be turned on or off at
48     compile and/or run times using the \texttt{packages.conf} and
49     \texttt{data.pkg} files.
50    
51     The monitor output can be sent to the standard output channel, to an
52     \texttt{mnc}--generated file, or to both simultaneously. For
53     \texttt{mnc} output, the flag:
54     \begin{verbatim}
55     monitor_mnc=.TRUE.,
56     \end{verbatim}
57     should be set within the \texttt{data.mnc} file. For output to both
58     ASCII and \texttt{mnc}, the flag
59     \begin{verbatim}
60     outputTypesInclusive=.TRUE.,
61     \end{verbatim}
62     should be set within the \texttt{PARM03} section of the main
63     \texttt{data} file. It should be noted that the
64     \texttt{outputTypesInclusive} flag will make \textbf{ALL} kinds of
65     output (that is, everything written by \texttt{mdsio}, \texttt{mnc},
66     and \texttt{monitor}) simultaneously active so it should be used only
67     with caution--and perhaps only for debugging purposes.
68    

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