The MITgcm model is tested (compiled and run) in an automated fashion on a varirety of different machines. The following is a summary of the MITgcm verification suite for the time period: 2006_11.

The machine naming scheme is:

Machine Type Nickname Notes
Intel P4 "faulks" Fedora Core 3
Intel P4 "hemmingway" Fedora Core 3
Intel P3/P4 Beowulf "myrinet" MITgcm cluster facility
Alpha cluster "halem" NASA NCCS Halem
SGI Altix 350 "altix350" MIT ACESgrid GeoCluster
IBM POWER3 SP "bf" NCAR Blackforest
IBM POWER4 SP "bs" NCAR Bluesky
AMD Opteron "adams" Fedora Core 4 (AMD64)
Sun UltraSparc "slough" Solaris 8
Intel P4 Mosix Cluster "sea" Red Hat v7.2
Intel P4 "eddy" Fedora Core 5
AMD Opteron cluster "dolphin" SuSE SLES v8.1
IBM/Apple dual G5 "two" Mac OSX 10.3 (gcc 3.4)
ACESgrid Dell Xeon "aces"Fedora Core 2


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
faulks linux_ia32_g77 adjoint 20061130 summary.txt 5:6
faulks linux_ia32_g77 forward 20061130 summary.txt 56:59
faulks linux_ia32_ifort forward 20061130 summary.txt 52:59
faulks linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc3 forward 20061130 summary.txt 53:59
columbia linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas_ieee forward 20061122 summary.txt 41:45
columbia linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas_noieee forward 20061122 summary.txt 39:45
eddy linux_ia32_g77 adjoint 20061130 summary.txt 5:6
eddy linux_ia32_g77 forward 20061130 summary.txt 56:59
eddy linux_ia32_gfortran forward 20061130 summary.txt 41:59
eddy linux_ia32_ifort+authors_v9 forward 20061130 summary.txt 51:59
eddy linux_ia32_ifort.v9+mth forward 20061130 summary.txt 35:37
eddy linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 forward 20061130 summary.txt 44:59
edvir sp4+mpi_edvir1 forward 20061126 summary.txt 7:8
aces-g77 linux_ia32_g77+mpi_aces forward 20061130 summary.txt 42:45
aces-ifort linux_ia32_ifort+mpi_aces forward 20061130 summary.txt 41:45
aces-mth linux_ia32_ifort.aces+mth forward 20061130 summary.txt 34:37
aces-pgf77 linux_ia32_pgf77+mpi_aces forward 20061130 summary.txt 42:45
model sunos_sun4u_mpf77+mpi_sunfire forward 20061126 summary.txt 21:24
rays1 sunos_sun4u_f77 forward 20061126 summary.txt 50:59
rays1 sunos_sun4u_g77 forward 20061126 summary.txt 54:59
xd1-420-6 linux_amd64_pgf77+mpi_xd1 forward 20061126 summary.txt 40:45
This table generated on: Thu Nov 30 23:21:01 EST 2006

Examples of the scripts used for these testing runs can be obtained from: MITgcm/tools/example_scripts.