Changes between Version 19 and Version 20 of UmFamous

Timestamp:

24/08/17 14:35:21 (3 years ago)

Author:

simon

Comment:

—

UmFamous

@@ -4 +4 @@
 This is a standalone version of FAMOUS based on version 4.5 of the
 Met Office's Unified Model (UM).
+
+The current version is 1.0.2.
 
 Two standard FAMOUS versions are supplied, one with the MOSESI land-surface scheme, and the other with MOESEII.2. The base runids for these configurations are xhmkq and xfhcr (under robin) respectively.
@@ -24 +26 @@
 
 The UM and FAMOUS can be installed on any linux system, from laptops to clusters. Currently the only job control software supported is the at daemon.
-It is possible to run with other job control systems such as Sun Grid Engine and SLURM, and versions which support these will be released
-in the future.
+It is possible to run with other job control systems such as Sun Grid Engine and SLURM, and an experiment system for this functionality is included, see below.
 
 umui configurations are available for both MOSESI and MOSESII. These have been simplified as much as possible with the mods and handedits concatenated and superfluous options removed.
 
-The package tarball is located at: /net/jasmin/users/simon/um_famous.tgz 
+The package tarball is located at: /net/jasmin/users/simon/um_famous1.0.2.tgz 
 
 
@@ -49 +50 @@
 == Quick start guide:
 
-1. Copy /net/jasmin/users/simon/um_famous.tgz and unpack on the machine on which you want to run FAMOUS. The system will be unpacked into a directory called um_famous
+1. Copy /net/jasmin/users/simon/um_famousx.x.x.tgz and unpack on the machine on which you want to run FAMOUS. The system will be unpacked into a directory called um_famous
 
 2. Edit example.profile to change the values of UMDIR and DATA_DIR, and append to your $HOME/.profile . (If $HOME/.profile doesn't exist, create it).
@@ -171 +172 @@
 been installed, add the line
 {{{
-export MPICH_DIR=/path/to/top/level/mpich
+export MPI_DIR=/path/to/top/level/mpich
 }}}
 to your .profile, before the call to setvars, changing the path as required. If MPI is already installed, then add this line
 to point to the local installation.
+
+Alternatively, if you local system uses modules, ensure that the required MPI (and compiler if needed) modules are loaded when a session is started, normally be placing the module load command in ~/.profile.
+Then ensure that $MPI_DIR is not set and
+{{{
+export MPI_MODULES=Y
+}}}
+is.
+
 
 Next gcom (the system the model uses for multi-processor communications) needs to be compiled using MPI. Type
@@ -192 +201 @@
 executable to $DATAW/$RUNID.exec or $DATAW/$RUNID.recon otherwise there is a danger that the
 standard executable under UMDIR will be overwritten.
+
+== Experimental: Cluster options.
+
+FAMOUS normally run via the "at daemon