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| 9 | <body style="direction: ltr;" lang="de-DE"><h2 style="line-height: 100%;"><font size="4">1.0 |
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| 10 | Introduction</font></h2> |
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| 11 | <p style="line-height: 100%;">This documentation wants to |
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| 12 | give |
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| 13 | assistance how to carry out runs with the large eddy simulation |
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| 14 | model <span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">PALM.</span> |
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| 15 | It contains |
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| 16 | <font color="#000000">instructions</font><font color="#800000"> </font>for |
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| 17 | the installation of the model (<a href="chapter_5.0.html">chapter |
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| 18 | 5.0</a>), for the practical execution of application runs (<a href="chapter_3.0.html">chapter |
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| 19 | 3.0</a>) and for the steering of the model by parameters (<a href="chapter_4.0.html">chapter |
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| 20 | 4.0</a>). New users should first of all read <a href="chapter_2.0.html">chapters |
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| 21 | 2.0</a> and <a href="chapter_3.0.html">3.0</a> |
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| 22 | (up to and including <a href="chapter_3.5.html">3.5</a>). |
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| 23 | </p> |
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| 24 | <p style="line-height: 100%;"><b>This documentation |
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| 25 | does not explain |
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| 26 | the <font color="#000000">mathematical,</font> |
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| 27 | numerical and physical |
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| 28 | background of large eddy simulation models and it also does not |
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| 29 | provide appropriate meteorological background knowledge. Good |
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| 30 | knowledge concerning this is presupposed and is indispensable for a |
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| 31 | successful application of the model.</b> In addition to this, |
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| 32 | knowledge of the operating system<span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"> |
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| 33 | Unix, </span>the <span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">Queueing |
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| 34 | System (NQS, PBS, Load Leveler, etc.)</span> to generate batch |
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| 35 | jobs, |
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| 36 | the basic functionality of <font color="#000000">parallel |
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| 37 | computers |
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| 38 | </font>and the programming language <span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">FORTRAN90 |
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| 39 | (particularly</span>, if code extensions are to be written by the |
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| 40 | user) are presupposed. Programming user-defined software usually |
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| 41 | requires exact knowledge of the internal model structure. First insight |
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| 42 | herei<span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">n |
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| 43 | <font color="#000000">is |
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| 44 | given</font></span> in <a href="chapter_2.0.html">chapter |
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| 45 | 2.0</a> and in the <a href="../tec/index.html">technical/numerical |
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| 46 | documentation</a>. The information obtained there is usually not |
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| 47 | <font color="#000000">sufficient</font> and has to |
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| 48 | be accompanied by |
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| 49 | detailed study of the source code of the model. A<span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">dditional |
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| 50 | </span>experience in parallel programming with the |
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| 51 | message passing interface<span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"> |
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| 52 | (MPI)</span> maybe presupposed. </p> |
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| 53 | <p style="line-height: 100%;">A documentation lives on |
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| 54 | criticism and |
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| 55 | suggestions by users. T<font color="#000000">hi</font>s |
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| 56 | is expressly |
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| 57 | requested. Please contact the PALM group |
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| 58 | (<span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">see |
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| 59 | <a href="http://www.muk.uni-hannover.de/%7Eraasch/PALM_group/PALM_group.html#0">members</a></span>). |
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| 60 | The model documentation is regularly maintained and brought up-to-date |
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| 61 | by the PALM group. The date of the last code |
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| 62 | revision is specified at the top of the table of contents of this |
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| 63 | documentation. <br> |
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| 67 | <span style="font-style: italic;">Last change:</span> |
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| 68 | $Id: chapter_1.0.html 62 2007-03-13 02:52:40Z steinfeld $<br> |
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