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: 2008_04.

The machine naming scheme is:

Machine Type Nickname Notes
Intel P4 "faulks" Fedora Core 6
Intel P4 "eddy" Fedora Core 5
Intel P4 "bay" Fedora Core 5
Intel P4 "meander" Fedora Core 7
ACESgrid Dell Xeon "aces"Fedora Core 2
SGI Altix Cluster "columbia" NAS Columbia
IBM POWER4 SP "edvir" AIX 5.2
IBM POWER5+ SP "blueice" NCAR Blueice
AMD Opteron "batsi" Fedora Core 4 (AMD64)
AMD Opteron "starp" SuSE SLES 10 (AMD64)
Sun UltraSparc IV "rays1" Solaris 9
NEC SX-8 "sx8" Super-UX
Cray XD1 (AMD Opteron) "xd1" Cray HPC enhanced Linux 2.6.5
PowerPC970MP cluster "bigred" SuSE SLES 9 (PPC)
HP test-drive (Pentium III) "td152" FreeBSD 6.2
HP test-drive (Itanium II) "td187" SuSE SLES 10
HP test-drive (PA-RISC 8700) "td192" HP-UX 11i 11.11
HP test-drive (Itanium II) "td194" HP-UX 11i v3


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 20080430 summary.txt 10:11
faulks linux_ia32_g77 forward 20080430 summary.txt 67:70
faulks linux_ia32_g77 restart 20080430 summary.txt 65:70
faulks linux_ia32_ifort+authors_v9 forward 20080430 summary.txt 60:70
faulks linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 forward 20080430 summary.txt 62:70
aces linux_ia32_absoft forward 20080430 summary.txt 47:70
aces linux_ia32_g77+mpi_aces forward 20080430 summary.txt 48:52
aces linux_ia32_g95 forward 20080430 summary.txt 62:70
aces linux_ia32_ifort+mpi_aces forward 20080430 summary.txt 45:52
aces linux_ia32_ifort.aces+mth forward 20080430 summary.txt 41:44
aces linux_ia32_open64.trapuv forward 20080430 summary.txt 61:70
aces linux_ia32_open64 forward 20080430 summary.txt 46:70
aces linux_ia32_pgf77+mpi_aces forward 20080430 summary.txt 44:52
eddy linux_ia32_g77 adjoint 20080429 summary.txt 10:11
eddy linux_ia32_g77 forward 20080429 summary.txt 67:70
eddy linux_ia32_gfortran forward 20080429 summary.txt 62:70
eddy linux_ia32_ifort+authors_v9 forward 20080429 summary.txt 60:70
eddy linux_ia32_ifort.v9+mth forward 20080429 summary.txt 41:44
eddy linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 forward 20080429 summary.txt 56:70
bay linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3+mth forward 20080430 summary.txt 16:44
bay linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3 forward 20080430 summary.txt 62:70
meander linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3+mth forward 20080430 summary.txt 19:44
meander linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3 forward 20080430 summary.txt 62:70
columbia linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas_ieee forward 20080410 summary.txt 45:52
columbia linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas_noieee forward 20080411 summary.txt 38:52
edvir sp4+mpi_edvir1 forward 20080427 summary.txt 6:11
rays1 sunos_sun4u_f77 forward 20080427 summary.txt 59:70
rays1 sunos_sun4u_g77 forward 20080427 summary.txt 54:70
sx8 SUPER-UX_SX-8_sxf90+mpi_awi forward 20080427 summary.txt 43:52
xd1 linux_amd64_pgf77+mpi_xd1 forward 20080427 summary.txt 42:52
batsi linux_amd64_g95 forward 20080430 summary.txt 64:70
batsi linux_amd64_gfortran forward 20080430 summary.txt 46:70
batsi linux_amd64_open64 forward 20080430 summary.txt 46:70
batsi linux_amd64_sunf90+mth forward 20080430 summary.txt 41:44
batsi linux_amd64_sunf90 forward 20080430 summary.txt 60:70
starp linux_amd64_pathf90+mth forward 20080427 summary.txt 31:45
starp linux_amd64_pathf90 forward 20080426 summary.txt 50:71
bigred linux_ppc64_xlf_bigred+mpi forward 20080410 summary.txt 37:52
bigred linux_ppc64_xlf_bigred adjoint 20080410 summary.txt 4:11
bigred linux_ppc64_xlf_bigred forward 20080410 summary.txt 52:70
bigred linux_ppc_xlf_bigred+mpi forward 20080410 summary.txt 37:52
bigred linux_ppc_xlf_bigred adjoint 20080410 summary.txt 5:11
bigred linux_ppc_xlf_bigred forward 20080410 summary.txt 52:70
blueice sp5+mpi-32 forward 20080430 summary.txt 0:52
blueice sp5+mpi forward 20080430 summary.txt 0:52
blueice sp5+mth-32 forward 20080430 summary.txt 0:44
blueice sp5+mth forward 20080430 summary.txt 0:44
blueice sp5-32 adjoint 20080430 summary.txt 0:11
blueice sp5-32 forward 20080430 summary.txt 0:70
blueice sp5 adjoint 20080430 summary.txt 7:11
blueice sp5 forward 20080430 summary.txt 53:70
td152 freebsd_ia32_g77 forward 20080430 summary.txt 61:70
td187 linux_ia64_gfortran forward 20080430 summary.txt 46:70
td187 linux_ia64_ifort+mth forward 20080430 summary.txt 30:44
td187 linux_ia64_ifort forward 20080430 summary.txt 61:70
td192 hp-ux_parisc+mth forward 20080430 summary.txt 26:44
td192 hp-ux_parisc64+mth forward 20080430 summary.txt 4:44
td192 hp-ux_parisc64 forward 20080430 summary.txt 5:70
td192 hp-ux_parisc forward 20080430 summary.txt 36:70
td194 hp-ux_ia64+mth forward 20080430 summary.txt 26:44
td194 hp-ux_ia64 forward 20080430 summary.txt 36:70
This table generated on: Wed Apr 30 23:50:01 EDT 2008

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