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Michael,<BR>
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I don’t have recent experience with their build, but suspect building is not a real problem. However...<BR>
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ESMF is a very large library and will require an ESMF_init somewhere in your driver or init code. Used to be that ESMF_init also did an MPI_init (with a serial wrapper if you’re not building parallel code) - not sure whether that’s still the case. The point is that it will affect code beyond just what you want to use.<BR>
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Guess I have a bit of a bias against ESMF for MPAS at this time, just because I think you want to be a bit more nimble for now. It might make sense later. It’s also one of my pet peeves – frameworks that force you to adopt the whole thing instead of being able to use/adopt in a piecewise manner.<BR>
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You also wrote:<BR>
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intervals in terms of years and months (though it does, contrary<BR>
to what I had thought, permit the setting of intervals in years<BR>
and months).<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Actually, this would be fine. We want to <I>set</I> monthly, yearly intervals, but when <I>getting</I> the interval, we usually want it back in seconds, not MM or YYYY.<BR>
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Phil<BR>
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