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3.8.2 Directory structure of model examples

Each example directory has the following subdirectories:

  • code: contains the code particular to the example. At a minimum, this directory includes the following files:

    • code/packages.conf: declares the list of packages or package groups to be used. If not included, the default version is located in pkg/pkg_default. Package groups are simply convenient collections of commonly used packages which are defined in pkg/pkg_default. Some packages may require other packages or may require their absence (that is, they are incompatible) and these package dependencies are listed in pkg/pkg_depend.

    • code/CPP_EEOPTIONS.h: declares CPP keys relative to the ``execution environment'' part of the code. The default version is located in eesupp/inc.

    • code/CPP_OPTIONS.h: declares CPP keys relative to the ``numerical model'' part of the code. The default version is located in model/inc.

    • code/SIZE.h: declares size of underlying computational grid. The default version is located in model/inc.

    In addition, other include files and subroutines might be present in code depending on the particular experiment. See Section 2 for more details.

  • input: contains the input data files required to run the example. At a minimum, the input directory contains the following files:

    • input/data: this file, written as a namelist, specifies the main parameters for the experiment.

    • input/data.pkg: contains parameters relative to the packages used in the experiment.

    • input/eedata: this file contains ``execution environment'' data. At present, this consists of a specification of the number of threads to use in $ X$ and $ Y$ under multithreaded execution.

    In addition, you will also find in this directory the forcing and topography files as well as the files describing the initial state of the experiment. This varies from experiment to experiment. See the verification directories refered to in this chapter for more details.

  • results: this directory contains the output file output.txt produced by the simulation example. This file is useful for comparison with your own output when you run the experiment.

  • build: this directory is where the model is compiled and loaded, and where the executable resides.

Once you have chosen the example you want to run, you are ready to compile the code.


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