NOGAPS Installation

• Make sure you have intel compilers (c and fortran installed) On boromir these are in /local/pkgs/intel-9.0
• source the following two files
  • /local/pkgs/intel-9.0/fc/9.0/bin/ifortvars.sh
  • /local/pkgs/intel-9.0/cc/9.0/bin/iccvars.sh
• compile the MPICH
  • get the tarball http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich1/downloads/mpich.tar.gz
  • configure and compile (make sure you set the following variables when configuring CC=icc CCX=icc F77=ifor F90=ifor)
  • make the mpich and install it
    • on boromir the installation prefix for mpich is /local/packages/
    • add /local/packages/bin to the PATH
    • add /local/packages/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
• having done all this sucessfully proceed to make NOGAPS
  • untar the sources (on boromir nogaps top is /local/pkgs/sources/NOGAPS) (NOGAPS_TOP=/local/pkgs/sources/NOGAPS)
  • edit $NOGAPS_TOP/RELEASE/make.include
    • the variable NOGAPS_ROOT should be set to $NOGAPS_TOP/RELEASE
  • cd $NOGAPS_TOP/RELEASE/fft; make
  • cd $NOGAPS_TOP/RELEASE/la; make
  • cd $NOGAPS_TOP/RELEASE/fcstmodel_benchmark; make
  • Go to $NOGAPS_TOP/RELEASE/benchmark_runs.
    • edit the script SUBMIT to make sure locations point to the right places in the directory structure
    • make sure you have ssh installed and that it does not require a password to login from the same machine

• • set ALLOWTOPICVIEW=EmirPasalic,ChristianCoarfa,WalidTaha
  • set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE=EmirPasalic,ChristianCoarfa,WalidTaha

-- Main.EmirPasalic - 29 Jan 2007