PALM Quickstart Guide

Fig. 2 Directory structure of PALM installation.

Fig. 1 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 UTILity programs and SOURCE code,
• run some small test simulations (JOBS, see Fig. 2).

Somewhere near the end of the automatic installation process, the following lines should have appeared in your terminal:

PALM installation successful
...
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           

We have a GUI to create and submit the palmrun command (software requirements: QT4, python). Type into the terminal:

palmrungui

If this doesn't work, copy and paste the command into the terminal.