The MITgcm model is tested (compiled and run) in an automated fashion on a variety of different machines. The following is a summary of the MITgcm verification suite for current period.

The machine naming scheme is:
Nickname Processor Type Operating System
"villon" Intel Haswell Ubuntu 18 LTS (x86_64)
"batsi" Intel Haswell Fedora 29 (x86_64)
"baudelaire" Intel Xeon Fedora 13 (x86_64)
"glacier" Intel CentOS 6 (x86_64)
"svante" Intel Xeon (Sandy Bridge) Fedora 24 (x86_64)
"engaging" Intel Xeon (Sandy Bridge) CentOS 6
"pleiades" SGI Altix XE cluster (Intel Xeon) Suse Linux
"archer" Cray XC30 Linux
"ollie" Cray CS400 CentOS
"stan" NEC SX-ACE Super-UX
"jaures" Intel Core i7-4900MQ Fedora 29 (x86_64)


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
villon linux_amd64_gfortran+mpi.dvlp forward 20261101 summary.txt 122:123
engaging linux_amd64_gfortran_avx2+mpi forward 20261101 summary.txt 44:44
engaging linux_amd64_gfortran_avx2+mpi.fast tanglin-taf 20261101 summary.txt 21:21
engaging linux_amd64_ifx+impi_avx2+mth.fast forward 20261101 summary.txt 107:113
svante linux_amd64_ifort+mpi.fast adjoint-taf 20261101 summary.txt 31:31
svante linux_amd64_pgf77+mpi.fast adjoint-taf 20261101 summary.txt 22:31
albedo linux_amd64_gfortran_albedo+mpi.dvlp forward 20261101 summary.txt 111:114
albedo linux_amd64_gfortran_albedo+mpi.dvlp restart 20261101 summary.txt 111:114
albedo linux_amd64_gfortran_albedo+mpi.fast forward 20261101 summary.txt 92:114
albedo linux_amd64_gfortran_albedo+mpi.fast restart 20261101 summary.txt 92:114
albedo linux_amd64_ifort_albedo+mpi.dvlp forward 20261101 summary.txt 108:114
albedo linux_amd64_ifort_albedo+mpi.dvlp restart 20261101 summary.txt 111:114
albedo linux_amd64_ifort_albedo+mpi.fast forward 20261101 summary.txt 90:114
albedo linux_amd64_ifort_albedo+mpi.fast restart 20261101 summary.txt 55:114
jaures linux_amd64_gfortran+mpi.dvlp adjoint-taf 20261101 summary.txt 30:31
This table generated on: Sun Nov 1 01:55:01 EDT 2026

Examples of the scripts used for these testing runs can be obtained from: MITgcm_contrib/test_scripts.

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