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: 2007_08.

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 20070831 summary.txt 8:8
faulks linux_ia32_g77 forward 20070831 summary.txt 62:65
faulks linux_ia32_ifort+authors_v9 forward 20070831 summary.txt 56:65
faulks linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 forward 20070831 summary.txt 58:65
columbia linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas_ieee forward 20070810 summary.txt 42:48
columbia linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas_noieee forward 20070810 summary.txt 39:48
bs linux_ia32_absoft forward 20070831 summary.txt 57:65
bs linux_ia32_g95 forward 20070821 summary.txt 60:65
eddy linux_ia32_g77 adjoint 20070830 summary.txt 8:8
eddy linux_ia32_g77 forward 20070830 summary.txt 62:65
eddy linux_ia32_gfortran forward 20070830 summary.txt 60:65
eddy linux_ia32_ifort+authors_v9 forward 20070830 summary.txt 56:65
eddy linux_ia32_ifort.v9+mth forward 20070830 summary.txt 38:43
eddy linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 forward 20070830 summary.txt 46:65
edvir sp4+mpi_edvir1 forward 20070826 summary.txt 7:9
a54-1727-032 linux_ia32_g95 forward 20070819 summary.txt 3:65
a54-1727-034 linux_ia32_absoft forward 20070817 summary.txt 43:65
a54-1727-042 linux_ia32_absoft forward 20070817 summary.txt 55:65
a54-1727-043 linux_ia32_g95 forward 20070820 summary.txt 3:65
a54-1727-044 linux_ia32_absoft forward 20070820 summary.txt 55:65
a54-1727-044 linux_ia32_g95 forward 20070818 summary.txt 3:65
a54-1727-077 linux_ia32_absoft forward 20070818 summary.txt 55:65
aces linux_ia32_absoft forward 20070831 summary.txt 57:65
aces linux_ia32_g77+mpi_aces forward 20070831 summary.txt 15:48
aces linux_ia32_g95 forward 20070831 summary.txt 60:65
aces linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3 forward 20070820 summary.txt 0:2
aces linux_ia32_gfortran forward 20070820 summary.txt 2:2
aces linux_ia32_ifort+mpi_aces forward 20070831 summary.txt 41:48
aces linux_ia32_ifort.aces+mth forward 20070831 summary.txt 38:43
aces linux_ia32_pgf77+mpi_aces forward 20070831 summary.txt 0:48
batsi linux_amd64_g95 forward 20070831 summary.txt 60:65
batsi linux_amd64_gfortran forward 20070831 summary.txt 45:65
batsi linux_amd64_sunf90+mth forward 20070831 summary.txt 38:43
batsi linux_amd64_sunf90 forward 20070831 summary.txt 56:65
bay linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3+mth forward 20070830 summary.txt 17:43
bay linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3 forward 20070830 summary.txt 60:65
fr0102en linux_ppc64_xlf_ncar+mth forward 20070827 summary.txt 0:43
fr0102en linux_ppc64_xlf_ncar forward 20070827 summary.txt 52:65
meander linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3+mth forward 20070831 summary.txt 16:43
meander linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3 forward 20070831 summary.txt 60:65
model sunos_sun4u_mpf77+mpi_sunfire forward 20070826 summary.txt 25:31
rays1 sunos_sun4u_f77 forward 20070826 summary.txt 56:65
rays1 sunos_sun4u_g77 forward 20070826 summary.txt 59:65
starp linux_amd64_pathf90+mth forward 20070830 summary.txt 36:43
starp linux_amd64_pathf90 forward 20070830 summary.txt 53:65
td187-gfortran linux_ia64_gfortran forward 20070823 summary.txt 42:65
td187-ifort linux_ia64_ifort+mth forward 20070823 summary.txt 29:43
td187-ifort linux_ia64_ifort forward 20070823 summary.txt 56:65
td192 hp-ux_parisc+mth forward 20070831 summary.txt 29:43
td192 hp-ux_parisc64+mth forward 20070831 summary.txt 20:43
td192 hp-ux_parisc64 forward 20070831 summary.txt 28:65
td192 hp-ux_parisc forward 20070831 summary.txt 39:65
td194 hp-ux_ia64+mth forward 20070831 summary.txt 30:43
td194 hp-ux_ia64 forward 20070831 summary.txt 40:65
xd1-420-6 linux_amd64_pgf77+mpi_xd1 forward 20070826 summary.txt 41:48
This table generated on: Fri Aug 31 23:21:05 EDT 2007

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