[Met_help] Re: Install Met on GALE

[John Halley Gotway]

Erik,

I went ahead and installed the latest version of MET up on the supers this morning.  And it was a good thing I did because I found that a compiler flag was missing in one of the Makefiles.  So I fixed 
that and updated the beta release from METv1.1beta8 to METv1.1beta9.  I put the latest version on that ftp site as well.

You can find the latest version of MET up there in...
bluevista: /blhome/johnhg/MET_releases/METv1.1beta9
bluefire: /homebv/johnhg/MET_releases/METv1.1beta9

All of the tools work up there now.  You're welcome to run them up there, or copy them over to some other directory.

FYI, I've attached a text file listing out the exact steps I used to build MET and it's required libraries/tools up on bluefire.

John

Erik Noble wrote:
> Dear John,
> I am happy to oblige!
> 1) I do all of my work on Bluefire right now. Yet CISL suggested I use
> GALE for data analysis jobs. I would be happy to do it all on on one
> computer. I'll wait until next week.
> 2) I would be very happy to test the tutorial now and provide
> feedback. Are you able to forward me this information this week?
> -Erik
> 
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:16 PM, John Halley Gotway <johnhg at rap.ucar.edu> wrote:
>> Erik,
>>
>> Good news.  We've recently been able to get MET to run on an IBM.  We're
>> finishing up the documentation for the next release and plan to release
>> METv1.1 sometime next week.  Once that's out the door, I could help you
>> install it on whatever machine you'd prefer - Gale or one of the supers.
>>  And we should be able to get around the 64-bit issue.
>>
>> But are you able to wait until METv1.1 is released next week?
>>
>> Also, we just put together an online tutorial for METv1.1.  If you'd be
>> interested in doing it, I could provide you with the website and a beta
>> version of the METv1.1 code.  Then you could provide any feedback or
>> suggestions you have.  We're getting the tutorial ready for the WRF-Tutorial
>> in 2 weeks.  Just let me know if you'd be interested in doing that.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
>> Erik Noble wrote:
>>> Hi. has the pb2nc executable been corrected yet for this machine?
>>> Is there another machine it can run on?
>>> Also, do you have any sample scripts for verifying the model data against
>>> obs?
>>> -Erik
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:09 PM, John Halley Gotway <johnhg at rap.ucar.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Erik,
>>>>
>>>> Alright, I've installed METv1.0 on Gale in my user home directory:
>>>> /fs/home/johnhg/MET/METv1.0
>>>>
>>>> You can find the executables in the "bin" subdirectory.
>>>>
>>>> However, the only current limitation is that since Gale is a 64-bit
>>>> machine,
>>>> the "pb2nc" utility won't run properly on it.  We're still trying to
>>>> address
>>>> that compatibility issue.
>>>>
>>>> All of the other tools should run fine though.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if you have any questions in running MET.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Erik Noble wrote:
>>>>> Dear John,
>>>>> How are you? I am still trying to get up and running with your MET
>>>>> software
>>>>> in order to verify WRF model results. I have not been sucessful over
>>>>> here
>>>>> at
>>>>> the NASA facility.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a supercomputer at NCAR called GALE, which is a linux
>>>>> environment,
>>>>> and it is meant for processing data. Users are able to access their
>>>>> /ptmp
>>>>> accounts on blueIce (and soon, bluefire) from within GALE. Any WRF model
>>>>> run
>>>>> simulated on blueice could be analyzed with MET on Gale. Would you,
>>>>> perhaps,
>>>>> be willing to install MET onto Gale?
>>>>> CISL is able to provide a login for you.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>> Erik Noble
>>>>>
>>
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# Build external libraries and tools:

# *** VERY IMPORTANT TO DO THIS *** Set the OBJECT_MODE to 32
setenv OBJECT_MODE 32

# BUFRLIB (under a minute):
tar -xvf BUFRLIB.tar
xlc -c -DUNDERSCORE *.c
xlf -c -qextname *.f
ar crv libbufr.a *.o

# CWORDSH (a few seconds):
tar -xvf cwordsh.tar
xlf -qextname -o cwordsh.x cwordsh.f ../bufrlib/libbufr.a
# Edit line for CWRD in the cwordsh file to point to the current directory.

# F2C (a few minutes):
make hadd
make

# GSL (several minutes):
gunzip gsl-1.9.tar.gz
tar -xvf gsl-1.9.tar
setenv CC /usr/bin/xlc
./configure --prefix=/blhome/johnhg/MET_releases/external_libs/gsl/gsl-1.9
make
make install

# NETCDF (a few minutes):
gunzip netcdf-3.6.2.tar.gz
tar -xvf netcdf-3.6.2.tar
setenv CC /usr/bin/xlc
setenv CXX /usr/bin/xlC
./configure --prefix=/blhome/johnhg/MET_releases/external_libs/netcdf/netcdf-3.6.2
make check
make install

# Build MET (a few minutes):
gunzip METv1.1beta8.tar.gz
tar -xvf METv1.1beta8.tar
cp Makefile_ibm Makefile

# Configure Makefile as follows:
# NETCDF_BASE  = /blhome/johnhg/MET_releases/external_libs/netcdf/netcdf-3.6.2
# BUFR_BASE    = /blhome/johnhg/MET_releases/external_libs/bufrlib
# GSL_BASE     = /blhome/johnhg/MET_releases/external_libs/gsl/gsl-1.9
# F2C_BASE     = /blhome/johnhg/MET_releases/external_libs/libf2c

gmake >& make_met.log&
tail -f make_met.log

# Redo the Fortran blocking on the sample PREPBUFR files
cd /blhome/johnhg/MET_releases/METv1.1beta9/data/sample_obs/prepbufr
foreach file (`ls`)
/blhome/johnhg/MET_releases/external_libs/cwordsh/cwordsh unblk $file temp
rm $file
/blhome/johnhg/MET_releases/external_libs/cwordsh/cwordsh block temp $file
rm $temp
end

# Run the MET test scripts
cd /blhome/johnhg/MET_releases/METv1.1beta9/scripts
./test_all.sh >& test_all.log&
tail -f *.log