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: 2009_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
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 "solssrv" Solaris 10
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 20090531 summary.txt 12:12
faulks linux_ia32_g77 forward 20090531 summary.txt 69:72
faulks linux_ia32_ifort+authors forward 20090531 summary.txt 64:72
faulks linux_ia32_ifort+authors+mth forward 20090531 summary.txt 54:60
faulks linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 forward 20090531 summary.txt 66:72
faulks linux_ia32_pgf77+authors_fc5 restart 20090531 summary.txt 67:72
aces linux_ia32_absoft forward 20090517 summary.txt 20:72
aces linux_ia32_g77+mpi_aces adjoint 20090531 summary.txt 1:1
aces linux_ia32_g77+mpi_aces forward 20090531 summary.txt 60:64
aces linux_ia32_g95 adjoint 20090531 summary.txt 0:12
aces linux_ia32_g95 forward 20090531 summary.txt 0:72
aces linux_ia32_ifort.aces+mth forward 20090531 summary.txt 54:60
aces linux_ia32_ifort+mpi_aces forward 20090531 summary.txt 57:65
aces linux_ia32_ifort+mpi_aces restart 20090531 summary.txt 60:65
aces linux_ia32_open64 forward 20090531 summary.txt 44:72
aces linux_ia32_open64.trapuv forward 20090531 summary.txt 65:72
aces linux_ia32_pgf77+mpi_aces forward 20090531 summary.txt 57:65
lagoon linux_ia32_gfortran forward 20090531 summary.txt 51:72
columbia linux_ia64_ifort forward 20090505 summary.txt 65:72
columbia linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas forward 20090505 summary.txt 50:56
columbia linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas.noieee forward 20090505 summary.txt 44:56
edvir sp4+mpi_edvir1 forward 20090531 summary.txt 6:11
rays sunos_sun4u_f90 forward 20090531 summary.txt 63:72
rays sunos_sun4u_g77 forward 20090531 summary.txt 56:72
solasrv sunos_i86pc_f95 forward 20090531 summary.txt 52:72
sx8 SUPER-UX_SX-8_sxf90+mpi_awi forward 20090531 summary.txt 52:65
beagle linux_amd64_ifort_beagle forward 20090524 summary.txt 64:72
beagle linux_amd64_ifort+mpi_beagle forward 20090524 summary.txt 57:65
beagle linux_amd64_ifort+mpi_beagle.noieee forward 20090524 summary.txt 51:65
beagle linux_amd64_ifort+mpi_beagle restart 20090524 summary.txt 59:65
starp linux_amd64_pathf90 forward 20090530 summary.txt 53:72
starp linux_amd64_pathf90+mth forward 20090531 summary.txt 48:60
bigred linux_ppc64_xlf_bigred adjoint 20090531 summary.txt 7:12
bigred linux_ppc64_xlf_bigred forward 20090531 summary.txt 51:72
bigred linux_ppc64_xlf_bigred+mpi forward 20090531 summary.txt 50:65
bigred linux_ppc_xlf_bigred adjoint 20090531 summary.txt 7:12
bigred linux_ppc_xlf_bigred forward 20090531 summary.txt 51:72
bigred linux_ppc_xlf_bigred+mpi forward 20090531 summary.txt 50:65
danton linux_amd64_ifort+mpi_loc+mth forward 20090529 summary.txt 34:40
dickens linux_amd64_g77 forward 20090531 summary.txt 67:72
dickens linux_amd64_gfortran adjoint 20090531 summary.txt 8:9
dickens linux_amd64_gfortran forward 20090531 summary.txt 69:72
dickens linux_amd64_gfortran+mth forward 20090531 summary.txt 60:60
dickens linux_amd64_gfortran restart 20090531 summary.txt 68:72
dodongo linux_ia32_ifort+oad adjoint 20090530 summary.txt 1:1
harbor linux_amd64_gfortran forward 20090531 summary.txt 65:72
harbor linux_amd64_gfortran+mth forward 20090531 summary.txt 26:60
yam darwin_ia32_g95 forward 20090531 summary.txt 59:72
This table generated on: Tue Jun 16 13:57:53 EDT 2009

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