The MITgcm model is tested (compiled and run) in an automated fashion on a variety of different machines. The following is a summary of the MITgcm verification suite for the time period: 2026_09.
The machine naming scheme is:
| Nickname | Processor Type | Operating System |
| "villon" | Intel Haswell | Ubuntu 18 LTS (x86_64) |
| "batsi" | Intel Haswell | Fedora 29 (x86_64) |
| "baudelaire" | Intel Xeon | Fedora 13 (x86_64) |
| "glacier" | Intel | CentOS 6 (x86_64) |
| "svante" | Intel Xeon (Sandy Bridge) | Fedora 24 (x86_64) |
| "engaging" | Intel Xeon (Sandy Bridge) | CentOS 6 |
| "pleiades" | SGI Altix XE cluster (Intel Xeon) | Suse Linux |
| "archer" | Cray XC30 | Linux |
| "ollie" | Cray CS400 | CentOS |
| "stan" | NEC SX-ACE | Super-UX |
| "jaures" | Intel Core i7-4900MQ | Fedora 29 (x86_64) |
The complete output for the verification runs can be found in
the summary pages
and the testing archives.
The latest reports are:
| Nickname | OPTFILE Name | Type | Date | Summary | Ratio |
| albedo | linux_amd64_gfortran_albedo+mpi.dvlp | forward | 20260901 | summary.txt | 110:113 |
| albedo | linux_amd64_gfortran_albedo+mpi.dvlp | restart | 20260901 | summary.txt | 110:113 |
| albedo | linux_amd64_gfortran_albedo+mpi.fast | forward | 20260901 | summary.txt | 91:113 |
| albedo | linux_amd64_gfortran_albedo+mpi.fast | restart | 20260901 | summary.txt | 91:113 |
| albedo | linux_amd64_ifort_albedo+mpi.dvlp | forward | 20260901 | summary.txt | 107:113 |
| albedo | linux_amd64_ifort_albedo+mpi.dvlp | restart | 20260901 | summary.txt | 110:113 |
| albedo | linux_amd64_ifort_albedo+mpi.fast | forward | 20260901 | summary.txt | 89:113 |
| albedo | linux_amd64_ifort_albedo+mpi.fast | restart | 20260901 | summary.txt | 54:113 |
| This table generated on: Tue Sep 1 00:55:01 EDT 2026 | |||||
Examples of the scripts used for these testing runs can be obtained from: MITgcm_contrib/test_scripts.