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_10.

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 20071031 summary.txt 7:8
faulks linux_ia32_g77 forward 20071031 summary.txt 64:66
faulks linux_ia32_ifort+authors_v9 forward 20071031 summary.txt 58:66
faulks linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 forward 20071031 summary.txt 60:66
aces linux_ia32_absoft forward 20071031 summary.txt 44:66
aces linux_ia32_g77+mpi_aces forward 20071031 summary.txt 45:49
aces linux_ia32_g95 forward 20071031 summary.txt 59:66
aces linux_ia32_ifort+mpi_aces forward 20071031 summary.txt 43:49
aces linux_ia32_ifort.aces+mth forward 20071031 summary.txt 40:43
aces linux_ia32_pgf77+mpi_aces forward 20071031 summary.txt 42:49
eddy linux_ia32_g77 adjoint 20071030 summary.txt 7:8
eddy linux_ia32_g77 forward 20071030 summary.txt 64:66
eddy linux_ia32_gfortran forward 20071030 summary.txt 60:66
eddy linux_ia32_ifort+authors_v9 forward 20071030 summary.txt 58:66
eddy linux_ia32_ifort.v9+mth forward 20071030 summary.txt 40:43
eddy linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 forward 20071030 summary.txt 47:66
bay linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3+mth forward 20071031 summary.txt 16:43
bay linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3 forward 20071031 summary.txt 60:66
meander linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3+mth forward 20071031 summary.txt 17:43
meander linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3 forward 20071030 summary.txt 60:66
edvir sp4+mpi_edvir1 forward 20071028 summary.txt 4:10
rays1 sunos_sun4u_f77 forward 20071028 summary.txt 46:66
rays1 sunos_sun4u_g77 forward 20071028 summary.txt 52:66
model sunos_sun4u_mpf77+mpi_sunfire forward 20071028 summary.txt 32:49
columbia linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas_ieee forward 20071019 summary.txt 43:49
columbia linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas_noieee forward 20071019 summary.txt 37:49
batsi linux_amd64_g95 forward 20071031 summary.txt 62:66
batsi linux_amd64_gfortran forward 20071031 summary.txt 47:66
batsi linux_amd64_sunf90+mth forward 20071031 summary.txt 40:43
batsi linux_amd64_sunf90 forward 20071031 summary.txt 58:66
starp linux_amd64_pathf90+mth forward 20071031 summary.txt 33:43
starp linux_amd64_pathf90 forward 20071030 summary.txt 54:66
bigred linux_ppc64_xlf_bigred+mpi forward 20071008 summary.txt 36:49
bigred linux_ppc64_xlf_bigred adjoint 20071008 summary.txt 6:8
bigred linux_ppc64_xlf_bigred forward 20071008 summary.txt 51:66
bigred linux_ppc_xlf_bigred+mpi forward 20071008 summary.txt 0:49
bigred linux_ppc_xlf_bigred adjoint 20071008 summary.txt 6:8
bigred linux_ppc_xlf_bigred forward 20071008 summary.txt 51:66
blueice sp5+mpi-32 forward 20071031 summary.txt 0:49
blueice sp5+mpi forward 20071031 summary.txt 0:49
blueice sp5+mth-32 forward 20071031 summary.txt 35:43
blueice sp5+mth forward 20071031 summary.txt 35:43
blueice sp5-32 adjoint 20071031 summary.txt 1:8
blueice sp5-32 forward 20071031 summary.txt 50:66
blueice sp5 adjoint 20071031 summary.txt 6:8
blueice sp5 forward 20071031 summary.txt 52:66
td150 freebsd_ia64_g77 forward 20071016 summary.txt 41:66
td152 freebsd_ia32_g77 forward 20071031 summary.txt 59:66
td187 linux_ia64_gfortran forward 20071031 summary.txt 47:66
td187 linux_ia64_ifort+mth forward 20071031 summary.txt 30:43
td187 linux_ia64_ifort forward 20071031 summary.txt 59:66
td192 hp-ux_parisc+mth forward 20071031 summary.txt 29:43
td192 hp-ux_parisc64+mth forward 20071031 summary.txt 13:43
td192 hp-ux_parisc64 forward 20071031 summary.txt 14:66
td192 hp-ux_parisc forward 20071031 summary.txt 38:66
td194 hp-ux_ia64+mth forward 20071031 summary.txt 29:43
td194 hp-ux_ia64 forward 20071031 summary.txt 38:66
This table generated on: Wed Oct 31 23:21:11 EDT 2007

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