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_09.

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
Intel P4 "lagoon" Fedora Core 8
Intel P4 "hugo" Fedora Core 9
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
Intel Xeon (Woodcrest) cluster "beagle"Rocks 4.3 (x86_64)
AMD Opteron "batsi" Fedora Core 4 (AMD64)
AMD Opteron "starp" SuSE SLES 10 (AMD64)
Sun UltraSparc IV "rays" 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 8900) "td191" 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 20080930 summary.txt 10:12
faulks linux_ia32_g77 forward 20080930 summary.txt 68:71
faulks linux_ia32_ifort+authors_v9 forward 20080930 summary.txt 61:71
faulks linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 forward 20080930 summary.txt 63:71
faulks linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 restart 20080930 summary.txt 66:71
aces linux_ia32_absoft forward 20080929 summary.txt 60:71
aces linux_ia32_g77+mpi_aces forward 20080930 summary.txt 49:54
aces linux_ia32_g95 adjoint 20080930 summary.txt 9:12
aces linux_ia32_g95 forward 20080930 summary.txt 64:71
aces linux_ia32_ifort+mpi_aces forward 20080930 summary.txt 47:54
aces linux_ia32_ifort.aces+mth forward 20080930 summary.txt 43:46
aces linux_ia32_open64.trapuv forward 20080930 summary.txt 62:71
aces linux_ia32_open64 forward 20080930 summary.txt 0:71
aces linux_ia32_pgf77+mpi_aces forward 20080930 summary.txt 46:54
eddy linux_ia32_g77 adjoint 20080930 summary.txt 10:12
eddy linux_ia32_g77 forward 20080930 summary.txt 68:71
eddy linux_ia32_gfortran forward 20080930 summary.txt 64:71
eddy linux_ia32_ifort+authors_v9 forward 20080930 summary.txt 61:71
eddy linux_ia32_ifort.v9+mth forward 20080930 summary.txt 43:46
eddy linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 forward 20080930 summary.txt 63:71
bay linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3+mth forward 20080930 summary.txt 16:46
bay linux_ia32_gfortran forward 20080930 summary.txt 64:71
meander linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3+mth forward 20080925 summary.txt 19:46
meander linux_ia32_gfortran forward 20080925 summary.txt 64:71
lagoon linux_ia32_gfortran-4.3+mth forward 20080930 summary.txt 16:46
lagoon linux_ia32_gfortran forward 20080930 summary.txt 64:71
hugo linux_ia32_g77 forward 20080928 summary.txt 67:71
hugo linux_ia32_gfortran adjoint 20080928 summary.txt 9:12
hugo linux_ia32_gfortran forward 20080928 summary.txt 68:71
hugo linux_ia32_gfortran restart 20080928 summary.txt 66:71
columbia linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas.noieee forward 20080905 summary.txt 40:53
columbia linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas forward 20080905 summary.txt 46:53
edvir sp4+mpi_edvir1 forward 20080928 summary.txt 6:11
rays sunos_sun4u_f90 forward 20080928 summary.txt 59:71
rays sunos_sun4u_g77 forward 20080928 summary.txt 54:71
solasrv sunos_i86pc_f95 forward 20081001 summary.txt 52:71
sx8 SUPER-UX_SX-8_sxf90+mpi_awi forward 20080928 summary.txt 45:54
xd1 linux_amd64_pgf90+mpi_xd1 forward 20080928 summary.txt 43:54
beagle linux_amd64_ifort+mpi_beagle.noieee forward 20080914 summary.txt 42:54
beagle linux_amd64_ifort+mpi_beagle forward 20080914 summary.txt 47:54
beagle linux_amd64_ifort_beagle forward 20080914 summary.txt 62:71
batsi linux_amd64_g95 forward 20080901 summary.txt 0:71
batsi linux_amd64_gfortran forward 20080901 summary.txt 0:71
batsi linux_amd64_open64+mth forward 20080901 summary.txt 0:45
batsi linux_amd64_open64 forward 20080901 summary.txt 0:71
batsi linux_amd64_sunf90+mth forward 20080901 summary.txt 0:45
batsi linux_amd64_sunf90 forward 20080901 summary.txt 0:71
starp linux_amd64_pathf90+mth forward 20080928 summary.txt 37:46
starp linux_amd64_pathf90 forward 20080927 summary.txt 52:71
bigred linux_ppc64_xlf_bigred+mpi forward 20080930 summary.txt 39:54
bigred linux_ppc64_xlf_bigred adjoint 20080930 summary.txt 7:12
bigred linux_ppc64_xlf_bigred forward 20080930 summary.txt 49:71
bigred linux_ppc_xlf_bigred+mpi forward 20080930 summary.txt 39:54
bigred linux_ppc_xlf_bigred adjoint 20080930 summary.txt 7:12
bigred linux_ppc_xlf_bigred forward 20080929 summary.txt 49:71
td152 freebsd_ia32_g77 forward 20080911 summary.txt 62:71
td165 linux_amd64_gfortran+mth forward 20080911 summary.txt 17:46
td165 linux_amd64_gfortran forward 20080911 summary.txt 66:71
td166 linux_amd64_gfortran forward 20080911 summary.txt 42:71
td187 linux_ia64_gfortran forward 20080910 summary.txt 46:71
td187 linux_ia64_ifort+mth forward 20080910 summary.txt 31:46
td187 linux_ia64_ifort forward 20080910 summary.txt 62:71
td191 hp-ux_parisc+mth forward 20080910 summary.txt 37:46
td191 hp-ux_parisc64+mth forward 20080910 summary.txt 4:46
td191 hp-ux_parisc64 forward 20080910 summary.txt 8:71
td191 hp-ux_parisc forward 20080910 summary.txt 51:71
td192 hp-ux_parisc+mth forward 20080809 summary.txt 27:44
td192 hp-ux_parisc64+mth forward 20080807 summary.txt 3:44
td192 hp-ux_parisc64 forward 20080810 summary.txt 5:70
td192 hp-ux_parisc forward 20080811 summary.txt 37:70
td194 hp-ux_ia64+mth forward 20080910 summary.txt 26:46
td194 hp-ux_ia64 forward 20080910 summary.txt 32:71
This table generated on: Tue Sep 30 23:50:01 EDT 2008

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