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_05.

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 20080531 summary.txt 10:11
faulks linux_ia32_g77 forward 20080531 summary.txt 67:70
faulks linux_ia32_g77 restart 20080524 summary.txt 64:69
faulks linux_ia32_ifort+authors_v9 forward 20080531 summary.txt 60:70
faulks linux_ia32_ifort+authors_v9 restart 20080526 summary.txt 64:70
faulks linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 forward 20080531 summary.txt 62:70
faulks linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 restart 20080531 summary.txt 65:70
aces linux_ia32_absoft forward 20080516 summary.txt 47:70
aces linux_ia32_g77+mpi_aces forward 20080531 summary.txt 47:52
aces linux_ia32_g95 forward 20080531 summary.txt 63:70
aces linux_ia32_ifort+mpi_aces forward 20080531 summary.txt 45:52
aces linux_ia32_ifort.aces+mth forward 20080531 summary.txt 41:44
aces linux_ia32_open64.trapuv forward 20080531 summary.txt 62:70
aces linux_ia32_open64 forward 20080531 summary.txt 46:70
aces linux_ia32_pgf77+mpi_aces forward 20080531 summary.txt 44:52
eddy linux_ia32_g77 adjoint 20080531 summary.txt 10:11
eddy linux_ia32_g77 forward 20080531 summary.txt 67:70
eddy linux_ia32_gfortran forward 20080531 summary.txt 63:70
eddy linux_ia32_ifort+authors_v9 forward 20080531 summary.txt 60:70
eddy linux_ia32_ifort.v9+mth forward 20080531 summary.txt 41:44
eddy linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 forward 20080531 summary.txt 57:70
bay linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3+mth forward 20080531 summary.txt 16:44
bay linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3 forward 20080531 summary.txt 63:70
meander linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3+mth forward 20080516 summary.txt 17:44
meander linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3 forward 20080516 summary.txt 62:70
columbia linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas_ieee forward 20080505 summary.txt 43:52
columbia linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas_noieee forward 20080505 summary.txt 36:52
edvir sp4+mpi_edvir1 forward 20080601 summary.txt 6:11
rays1 sunos_sun4u_f77 forward 20080525 summary.txt 59:70
rays1 sunos_sun4u_g77 forward 20080525 summary.txt 54:70
sx8 SUPER-UX_SX-8_sxf90+mpi_awi forward 20080525 summary.txt 43:52
xd1 linux_amd64_pgf77+mpi_xd1 forward 20080601 summary.txt 41:52
batsi linux_amd64_g95 forward 20080531 summary.txt 65:70
batsi linux_amd64_gfortran forward 20080531 summary.txt 47:70
batsi linux_amd64_open64 forward 20080531 summary.txt 47:70
batsi linux_amd64_sunf90+mth forward 20080531 summary.txt 41:44
batsi linux_amd64_sunf90 forward 20080531 summary.txt 60:70
starp linux_amd64_pathf90+mth forward 20080531 summary.txt 0:44
starp linux_amd64_pathf90 forward 20080531 summary.txt 0:70
blueice sp5+mpi-32 forward 20080530 summary.txt 0:52
blueice sp5+mpi forward 20080530 summary.txt 0:52
blueice sp5+mth-32 forward 20080531 summary.txt 0:44
blueice sp5+mth forward 20080531 summary.txt 0:44
blueice sp5-32 adjoint 20080531 summary.txt 0:11
blueice sp5-32 forward 20080531 summary.txt 0:70
blueice sp5 adjoint 20080531 summary.txt 8:11
blueice sp5 forward 20080531 summary.txt 54:70
td152 freebsd_ia32_g77 forward 20080531 summary.txt 61:70
td187 linux_ia64_gfortran forward 20080531 summary.txt 47:70
td187 linux_ia64_ifort+mth forward 20080531 summary.txt 0:44
td187 linux_ia64_ifort forward 20080531 summary.txt 0:70
td192 hp-ux_parisc+mth forward 20080530 summary.txt 27:44
td192 hp-ux_parisc64+mth forward 20080530 summary.txt 3:44
td192 hp-ux_parisc64 forward 20080530 summary.txt 5:70
td192 hp-ux_parisc forward 20080530 summary.txt 37:70
td194 hp-ux_ia64+mth forward 20080531 summary.txt 27:44
td194 hp-ux_ia64 forward 20080531 summary.txt 37:70
This table generated on: Sat May 31 23:50:01 EDT 2008

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