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8 | <body style="direction: ltr;" lang="en-US"><h2 style="line-height: 100%;"><font size="4">5.0 |
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9 | Installation of the |
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10 | model</font></h2> |
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11 | <font color="#000000">This chapter |
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12 | describes the installation of PALM on a Linux workstation (local host) |
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13 | and a suitable remote computer, on which the |
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14 | model runs are to be carried out. The local host is used to |
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15 | start batch jobs with <b>mrun</b> and to analyze the |
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16 | results |
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17 | which are produced by the model on the remote host and send back to the |
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18 | local host. Alternatively, <span style="font-weight: bold;">mrun</span> |
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19 | can also be used to start PALM on the local host in interactive mode or |
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20 | as a batch job (if a queueing system like NQS, PBS, or LoadLeveler is available).</font><p style="line-height: 100%;"></p><p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Requirements</span></font></p><p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000">The |
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21 | installation and operation of PALM requires at mimimum (on both, the |
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22 | local and the remote host, unless stated otherwise):</font></p><ol><li><font color="#000000">The Korn-shell (AT&T ksh or public domain ksh) must be |
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23 | available under<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> </span></font><font style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;" color="#000000">/bin/ksh</font><font color="#000000">.<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"></span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></font></li><li><font color="#000000">The |
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24 | NetCDF-library with version number not earlier than 3.6.0-p1 (for |
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25 | NetCDF, see under <a href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/">www.unidata.ucar.edu</a>).</font></li><li><font color="#000000">A FORTRAN90/95 compiler.</font></li><li><font color="#000000">The Message Passing Interface (MPI), at |
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26 | least on the remote host, if the parallel version of PALM shall be used.</font></li><li><font color="#000000">On the local host, the revision control |
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27 | system <span style="font-weight: bold;">subversion</span> |
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28 | (see <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">subversion.tigris.org</a>). |
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29 | This is already included in many Linux distributions (e.g. SuSe). <span style="font-weight: bold;">subversion requires port 3690 to |
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30 | be open for tcp/udp.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">If |
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31 | there are firewall restrictions concerning this port, the PALM code |
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32 | cannot be accessed.</span> The |
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33 | user needs a permit to access the PALM repository. For getting a permit |
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34 | please contact the PALM group (<a href="mailto:raasch@muk.uni-hannover.de">raasch@muk.uni-hannover.de</a>) |
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35 | and define a username under which you like to access the repository. |
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36 | You will then receive a password which allows the access under this |
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37 | name.</font></li><li><font color="#000000">A |
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38 | job queueing system must be available on the remote host. Currently, <span style="font-weight: bold;">mrun</span> can handle |
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39 | LoadLeveler (IBM-AIX) and NQS/PBS (Linux-Clusters, NEC-SX).</font></li><li><font color="#000000">ssh/scp-connections to and from the remote |
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40 | host must not be blocked by a firewall.<br></font></li></ol><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></font><font color="#000000"> Currently, <span style="font-weight: bold;">mrun</span> is configured |
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41 | to be used on a limited number of selected machines. These are |
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42 | IBM-Regatta at computing center HLRN in Hannover (<span style="font-style: italic;">ibmh</span>), Berlin (<span style="font-style: italic;">ibmb</span>), at KISTI, |
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43 | Korea (<span style="font-style: italic;">ibms</span>), |
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44 | at Yonsei University, Seoul (<span style="font-style: italic;">ibms</span>), |
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45 | on NEC-SX6/8 systems at DKRZ, Hamburg (<span style="font-style: italic;">nech</span>) and RIAM, |
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46 | Kyushu University, Fukuoka (<span style="font-style: italic;">neck</span>), |
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47 | as well as on the Linux cluster of IMUK (<span style="font-style: italic;">lcmuk</span>) and Tokyo |
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48 | Institute of Technology (<span style="font-style: italic;">lctit</span>). |
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49 | The strings given in brackets are the systems names (host identifiers) under which <span style="font-weight: bold;">mrun</span> identifies the |
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50 | different hosts.<br><br>You can also use <span style="font-weight: bold;">mrun</span>/PALM on other Linux-Cluster, IBM-AIX, or NEC-SX machines. See <a href="#configuration_for_other_machines">below</a> on how to configure <span style="font-weight: bold;">mrun</span> for other machines. However, these configurations currently (version 3.2a) allow to run PALM in interactive mode only.<br><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></font><p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000">The |
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51 | examples given in this chapter refer to an |
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52 | installation of PALM on an IMUK Linux workstation and the IBM-Regatta |
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53 | system of |
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54 | the HLRN used as remote host. They are just called local and |
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55 | remote host from now on. </font></p><p style="line-height: 100%;"> |
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56 | </p><p style="line-height: 100%;">The installation |
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57 | process requires a valid |
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58 | account on the local and on the remote host as well.<br> |
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59 | </p> |
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60 | <ul> All hosts (local as well as remote) are |
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61 | accessed via the secure shell (ssh). The user must establish |
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62 | passwordless login using the private/public-key mechanism (see e.g. the |
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63 | <a href="http://www.hlrn.de/doc/ssh/index.html">HLRN |
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64 | documentation</a>). <b>To ensure proper function of mrun, |
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65 | passwordless login must be |
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66 | established in both directions, from the local to the remote host as |
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67 | well as from the remote to the local host!</b> Test this by |
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68 | carrying |
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69 | out e.g. on the local host: <p style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: monospace;"> |
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70 | </span><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">ssh |
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71 | <username on remote host>@<remote |
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72 | IP-address></span><br> </p> <p style="line-height: 100%;">and on the remote host:<br> |
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73 | </p> <p style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: monospace;"> |
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74 | </span><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">ssh |
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75 | <username on local host>@<local IP-adddress></span><br> |
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76 | </p> In both cases you should not be |
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77 | prompted for a password. <b>Before continuing the further |
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78 | installation |
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79 | process, this must be absolutely guaranteed!</b> This must also |
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80 | be |
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81 | guaranteed for <b>all</b> other remote hosts, on which |
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82 | PALM shall run. |
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83 | </ul><p style="line-height: 100%;"></p><p style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Package |
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84 | Installation</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%;">In |
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85 | the <b>first installation step</b> a |
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86 | set of directories must be created both on the local and on the |
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87 | remote host. These directories are:</p><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">~/job_queue<br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">~/palm<br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">~/palm/current_version<br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">~/palm/current_version/JOBS</span><br></div><p style="line-height: 100%;">The names of these directories |
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88 | are |
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89 | freely selectable (except <tt><font size="2">~/job_queue</font></tt>), |
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90 | however new users should use them as suggested, since many |
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91 | examples in this documentation as well as all example files are |
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92 | assuming these settings. The directory <span style="font-family: monospace;">~/palm/current_version</span> |
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93 | on the local host will be called the working directory from now on. </p> |
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94 | <p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000">In |
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95 | the <b>second |
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96 | step</b> |
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97 | a working copy of the recent version of the PALM software package, |
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98 | including the source code, scripts, documentation, etc. must |
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99 | be |
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100 | copied to the working directory (</font><font color="#000000">local |
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101 | host!) by executing the following |
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102 | commands. Replace <your username> by the name that you |
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103 | chose to |
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104 | access the repository, and <#> by any of the available |
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105 | PALM |
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106 | releases, e.g. "<span style="font-style: italic;">3.1c</span>" |
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107 | (new releases will be anounced by email to the PALM mailing list).</font></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">cd |
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108 | ~/palm/current_version</span><br style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">svn |
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109 | checkout --username <your username> |
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110 | svn://130.75.105.45/palm/tags/release-<#> trunk</span><br></div><p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000">You |
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111 | will then be prompted for your password. After finishing, the |
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112 | subdirectory</font><font style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;" color="#000000"> trunk </font><font color="#000000">should |
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113 | appear in your working directory. It contains a number of further |
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114 | subdirectories which contain e.g. the PALM source code (</font><font style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;" color="#000000">SOURCE</font><font color="#000000">) |
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115 | and the scripts for running PALM (</font><font style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;" color="#000000">SCRIPTS</font><font color="#000000">).</font></p><p style="line-height: 100%;">Alternatively, executing</p><pre style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 40px; font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">svn checkout --username <your username> svn://130.75.105.45/palm/tags/release-<#> abcde</pre><p style="line-height: 100%;">will place your working copy in a |
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116 | directory named<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> abcde </span>instead |
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117 | of a directory named<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> trunk</span>. |
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118 | But keep in mind that you will have to adjust several paths given |
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119 | below, if you do not use the default directory<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> trunk</span>.</p><p style="line-height: 100%;">Please never touch any file in |
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120 | your working copy of PALM, unless you know exactly what you |
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121 | are doing.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You can also get a copy of the |
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122 | most recent code by executing</span></p><pre style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 40px; font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">svn checkout --username <your username> svn://130.75.105.45/palm/trunk trunk</pre>However, |
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123 | this version may contain bugs and new features may not be documented. <span style="font-weight: bold;">In future PALM releases, |
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124 | repository access to this most recent version will |
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125 | probably be restricted to the PALM developers.</span><p style="line-height: 100%;"></p><p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Package |
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126 | Configuration</span></font></p><p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000">To |
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127 | use the PALM scripts, the <span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">PATH</span>-variable has to be extended and the |
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128 | environment variable<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> PALM_BIN </span>has to be set (on local and remote host) |
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129 | in the respective profile of the users default shell (e.g. in<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> .profile</span>, |
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130 | if<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> |
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131 | ksh </span>is used):</font></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 40px;"><font style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;" color="#000000">export |
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132 | PATH=$HOME/palm/current_version/trunk/SCRIPTS:$PATH</font><font color="#000000"><br><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">export |
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133 | PALM_BIN=</span></font><font style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;" color="#000000">$HOME/palm/current_version/trunk/SCRIPTS</font></p><p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000">You |
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134 | may have to login again in order to activate these settings.</font></p><font color="#000000">On the local and on the remote host, some |
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135 | small helper/utility programs have to be installed, which are later used by <span style="font-weight: bold;">mrun</span> e.g. for PALM data postprocessing. The installation is done by <span style="font-weight: bold;">mbuild</span>. This script |
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136 | requires a configuration file<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> |
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137 | .mrun.config</span>, which will be also used by <span style="font-weight: bold;">mrun</span> in the |
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138 | following. A copy has to be put into the working directory under the |
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139 | name<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> |
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140 | .mrun.config </span>by</font><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 40px;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">cp |
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141 | trunk/SCRIPTS/.mrun.config.default .mrun.config</span></font></p><font color="#000000">Beside many other things, this file contains |
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142 | typical installation parameters |
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143 | like compiler name, compiler options, etc. |
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144 | for a set of different (remote) hosts. Please edit this file, uncomment |
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145 | lines like</font><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">#%remote_username |
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146 | <replace by your ... username> |
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147 | <host identifier></div><p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000">by |
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148 | removing the first hash (<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">#</span>) |
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149 | character and replace the string "<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><replace |
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150 | by ...></span>" by your username on the respective host |
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151 | given in the <span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><host identifier></span>. |
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152 | You only have to uncomment lines for those hosts on which you intend to |
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153 | use PALM.</font></p><p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000">After modifying the configuration file, the |
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154 | respective executables are generated by executing</font></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 40px; font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><font color="#000000">mbuild -u -h lcmuk<br>mbuild -u -h ibmh</font></p><p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000">The |
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155 | second call also copies the PALM scripts (like <span style="font-weight: bold;">mrun</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">mbuild</span>) to the remote |
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156 | host.</font></p><p style="line-height: 100%;"></p><p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Pre-Compilation |
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157 | of PALM Code</span></font></p><font color="#000000"> |
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158 | </font><br><font color="#000000">To avoid the |
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159 | re-compilation of the complete source code for each model run, PALM |
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160 | willl be pre-compiled once on the remote host by again using the script |
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161 | <span style="font-weight: bold;">mbuild</span>. Due |
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162 | to the use of |
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163 | FORTRAN modules in the source code, the subroutines must be compiled |
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164 | in a certain order. Therefore the so-called <i>make</i> |
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165 | mechanism |
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166 | is used (see the respective man-page of the Unix operating system), |
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167 | requiring a<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> |
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168 | </span></font><font style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;" color="#000000">Makefile</font><font color="#000000">, |
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169 | in which the dependencies are described. This file is found in |
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170 | subdirectory <span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">trunk/SOURCE<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">, where |
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171 | also the PALM code is stored</span></span>. The compiled |
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172 | sources (object |
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173 | files) are |
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174 | stored on the remote computer in the default directory |
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175 | </font><font style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;" color="#000000">~/palm/current_version/MAKE_DEPOSITORY</font>.<font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></font><p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000">The |
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176 | pre-compilation for the remote host (here the IBM-Regatta of HLRN) is |
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177 | done by</font><span style="font-family: monospace;"></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">mbuild |
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178 | -h ibmh </span></div><p style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">mbuild |
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179 | </span>will prompt some queries<font color="#000000">, |
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180 | which must all be |
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181 | answered "y" by the user. The compiling process </font><font color="#000000">will take some time.<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> </span></font><font style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;" color="#000000">mbuild</font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> </span>transfers |
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182 | the respective compiler calls to the remote |
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183 | host where they are carried out interactively. You can follow the |
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184 | progress at the terminal window, where also error messages |
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185 | are displayed (hopefully not for this standard installation). By just |
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186 | entering </font></p><p style="line-height: 100%;"> |
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187 | </p><blockquote style="line-height: 100%; font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><font color="#000000">mbuild</font></blockquote> |
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188 | <p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000">PALM |
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189 | will |
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190 | be (consecutively) pre-compiled for all remote hosts listed in |
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191 | the configuration file. If you want to compile for the local host only, |
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192 | please enter</font></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 40px;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">mbuild |
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193 | -h lcmuk</span> </font> |
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194 | </p><p style="line-height: 100%;"></p><p style="line-height: 100%; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><font color="#000000">Installation Verification</font></p><font color="#000000">As a last step, |
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195 | after the compilation has been finished, the PALM installation has to |
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196 | be verified. For this |
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197 | purpose a simple test run is carried out. This once again requires the <b>mrun |
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198 | </b>configuration file (described in </font><a href="chapter_3.2.html"><font color="#000080">chapter |
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199 | 3.2</font></a><font color="#000000">), as well |
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200 | as the </font><a href="http://www.muk.uni-hannover.de/%7Eraasch/PALM_group/INSTALL/example_p3d"><font color="#000080">parameter |
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201 | file</font></a><font color="#000000"> |
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202 | (described in </font><a href="chapter_4.4.1.html"><font color="#000080">chapter |
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203 | 4.4.1</font></a>)<font color="#000000">. The |
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204 | parameter file must be |
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205 | copied from the PALM working copy by<br> |
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206 | </font><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: monospace;"></span><font style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;" color="#000000">mkdir -p JOBS/example/INPUT<br>cp |
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207 | trunk/INSTALL/example_p3d JOBS/example/INPUT/example_p3d</font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"></span></font></div> |
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208 | <p style="line-height: 100%;"><font color="#000000">The |
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209 | test run can |
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210 | now be started by executing the command </font> |
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211 | </p><pre style="margin-left: 1cm; margin-right: 1cm; margin-bottom: 0.5cm; line-height: 100%; font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><font color="#000000">mrun -d example -h ibmh -K parallel -X 8 -T 8 -t 500 -q cdev -r “d3# pr#”</font></pre> |
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212 | <font color="#000000">This specific run |
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213 | will be carried out on 8 PEs and is allowed to use up to 500 seconds |
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214 | CPU time. After pressing <return>, the most important |
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215 | settings of |
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216 | the job are displayed at the terminal window |
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217 | and the user is prompted for o.k. (“</font><font style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;" color="#000000">y</font><font color="#000000">”). |
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218 | Next, a message of the queuing system like “<i>Request</i> |
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219 | … |
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220 | <i>Submitted to queue… by…” </i>should |
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221 | be displayed. Now the job is |
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222 | queued and either started immediately or at a later time, depending on |
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223 | the |
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224 | current workload of the remote host. Provided that it is executed |
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225 | immediately and that all things work as designed, the job protocol of |
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226 | this run will appear under the file name<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> </span></font><font style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;" color="#000000">~/job_queue/ibmh_example</font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> </span>no |
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227 | more than a few minutes later. The content of this |
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228 | file should be carefully examined for any error messages.</font><p style="line-height: 100%;"> |
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229 | </p><p style="line-height: 100%;">Beside the job |
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230 | protocol and according to |
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231 | the configuration file and arguments given for <b>mrun</b> |
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232 | options<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> |
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233 | -d </span>and<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> -r</span><tt>,</tt>further |
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234 | files should be found in |
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235 | the |
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236 | directories</p><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">~/palm/current_version/JOBS/example/MONITORING</div><p style="line-height: 100%;">and</p> |
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237 | <p style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: monospace;"> |
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238 | </span><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">~/palm/current_version/JOBS/example/OUTPUT</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"></span><br> |
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239 | </p><p style="line-height: 100%;">Please compare the |
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240 | contents of file</p> |
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241 | <p style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: monospace;"> |
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242 | </span><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">~/palm/current_version/JOBS/example/MONITORING/ibmh_example_rc</span><br> |
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243 | </p><p style="line-height: 100%;">with those of the |
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244 | example result file which can be found under<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> |
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245 | trunk/INSTALL/example_rc</span>., e.g. by using the<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> standard</span> |
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246 | diff </span>command:</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 40px; font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">diff |
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247 | JOBS/example/MONITORING/ibmh_example_rc |
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248 | trunk/INSTALL/example_rc</p><p style="line-height: 100%;">where |
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249 | it is assumed that your working directory is<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> |
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250 | ~/palm/current_version</span>.</p><span style="font-weight: bold;">You should not find any |
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251 | difference between these two files</span>, except of the run date |
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252 | and time displayed at the top of the file header. <font color="#000000">If |
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253 | the file contents are identical, the installation is successfully |
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254 | completed.<br><br></font><p style="line-height: 100%;"></p><p style="line-height: 100%; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><font color="#000000"><a name="configuration_for_other_machines"></a>Configuration for other machines</font></p><font color="#000000">Starting |
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255 | from version 3.2a, beside the default hosts (HLRN, etc.), PALM can also |
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256 | be installed and run on other Linux-Cluster-, IBM-AIX, or |
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257 | NEC-SX-systems. To configure PALM for a non-default host only requires |
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258 | to add some lines to the configuration file<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> .mrun.config</span>.<br><br>First, |
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259 | you have to define the host identifier (a string of arbitrary length) |
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260 | under which your local host shall be identified by adding a line<br><br></font><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">%host_identifier <hostname> <host identifier></span><br></div><br>to the configuration file (best to do this in the section where the other default host identifiers are defined). Here<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> <hostname> </span>must be the name of your local host as provided by the unix-command "<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">hostname</span>". The first characters of<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"> <host identifier> </span>have to be "<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">lc</span>", if your system is (part of) a linux-cluster, "<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">ibm</span>", or "<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">nec</span>" |
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261 | in case of an IBM-AIX- or NEC-SX-system, respectively. For example, if |
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262 | you want to install on a linux-cluster, the line may read as<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">%host_identifier foo lc_bar<br></div><br>In |
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263 | the second step, you have to give all informations neccessary to |
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264 | compile and run PALM on your local host by adding an additional section |
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265 | to the configuration file:<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">%remote_username <1> <host identifier> parallel<br>%tmp_user_catalog <2> <host identifier> parallel<br>%compiler_name <3> <host identifier> parallel<br>%compiler_name_ser <4> <host identifier> parallel<br>%cpp_options |
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266 | <5> <host identifier> parallel<br>%netcdf_inc <6> <host identifier> parallel<br>%netcdf_lib <7> <host identifier> parallel<br>%fopts |
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267 | <8> <host identifier> parallel<br>%lopts |
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268 | <9> <host identifier> parallel<br></div><br>The |
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269 | section consists of four columns each separated by one or more blanks. |
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270 | The first column gives the name of the respective environment variable |
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271 | used by <span style="font-weight: bold;">mrun</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">mbuild</span>, |
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272 | while the second column defines its value. The third column has to be |
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273 | the host identifier as defined above, and the last column in each line |
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274 | must contain the string "<span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">parallel</span>". |
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275 | Otherwise, the respective line(s) will be interpreted as belonging to |
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276 | the setup for compiling and running a serial (non-parallel) version of |
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277 | PALM.<br><br>All brackets have to be replaced by the appropriate settings for your local host:<br><ul><li><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><1> </span>is the username on your LOCAL host</li><li><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><2> </span>is the temporary directory in which PALM runs will be carried out</li><li><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><3> </span>is the compiler name which generates parallel code</li><li><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><4> </span>is the compiler name for generating serial code</li><li><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><5> </span>are |
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278 | the preprocessor options to be invoked. In most of the cases, it will |
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279 | be neccessary to adjust the MPI data types to double precision by |
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280 | giving <span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">-DMPI_REAL=MPI_DOUBLE_PRECISION -DMPI_2REAL=MPI_2DOUBLE_PRECISION</span>. To switch on the NetCDF support, you also have to give <span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">-D__netcdf</span> and <span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">-D__netcdf_64bit</span> (if you like to have 64bit NetCDF output).</li><li><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><6> </span>is the compiler option for specifying the include path to search for the NetCDF module/include files</li><li><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><7> </span>are the linker options to search for the NetCDF library</li><li><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><8> </span>are the general compiler options to be used. You should allways switch on double precision (e.g. <span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">-r8</span>) and code optimization (e.g. <span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">-O2</span>).</li><li><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><9> </span>are the linker options</li><li><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;"><host identifier> </span>is the host identifier as defined before</li></ul><br>A typical example may be:<br><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">%remote_username |
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281 | raasch |
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282 | lc_bar parallel<br>%tmp_user_catalog |
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283 | /tmp lc_bar |
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284 | parallel<br>%compiler_name |
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285 | mpif90 lc_bar |
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286 | parallel<br>%compiler_name_ser |
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287 | ifort lc_bar |
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288 | parallel<br>%cpp_options |
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289 | -DMPI_REAL=MPI_DOUBLE_PRECISION:-DMPI_2REAL=MPI_2DOUBLE_PRECISION:-D__netcdf:-D__netcdf_64bit |
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290 | lc_bar parallel<br>%netcdf_inc |
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291 | -I:/usr/local/netcdf/include |
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292 | lc_bar parallel<br>%netcdf_lib |
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293 | -L/usr/local/netcdf/lib:-lnetcdf |
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294 | lc_bar parallel<br>%fopts |
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295 | -axW:-cpp:-openmp:-r8:-nbs |
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296 | lc_bar parallel<br>%lopts |
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297 | -axW:-cpp:-openmp:-r8:-nbs:-Vaxlib lc_bar |
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298 | parallel<br></div><br>Currently (version 3.2a), depending on the MPI |
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299 | version which is running on your local host, the options for the |
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300 | execution command (which may be <span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">mpirun</span> or <span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;">mpiexec</span>) |
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301 | may have to be adjusted manually in the mrun-script. A future version |
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302 | will allow to give the respective settings in the configuration file. |
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303 | <p style="line-height: 100%;">If you have any problems |
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304 | with the PALM |
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305 | installation, the members of the PALM working group are pleased to |
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306 | help you. </p> |
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