PALM Quickstart Guide

Fig. 1 Directory structure of PALM installation.

Fig. 2 Directory structure of PALM simulation setup.

Ideally, you have successfully installed PALM using the [automatic installer]. If so, the installer has

• [downloaded] PALM from the subversion control (svn) repository into a predefined directory structure on your local PC (see Fig. 1),
• created the required palmrun [configuration file], e.g. .palm.config.default (hidden file),
• pre-compiled ([palmbuild]) the UTILities and SOURCE code,
• run some small test simulations (JOBS).

Somewhere near the end of the automatic installation process, the following lines should have appeared in your UNIX terminal:
All found tests passed. PALM installation successful and
PALM installer finished.
Further, the installer has printed an example command for starting a PALM simulation, e.g.

palmrun -r example_cbl -a \"d3#\" -c \"default\"        -X \"4\" -T \"4\" "
                |           |             |              |        |                "
            run identifier  |  configuration identifier  |        tasks per node   "
                     I/O control list                 number of cores           "