[Wrf-users] WRF-3.1: Qn about em_b_wave test

Sangamesh B forum.san at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 22:33:26 MDT 2009


Thanks Kevin and Nils for the help

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Nils Dorband <dorband at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> According to your output files, your run was successful and evolving the
> test case for 10h. (this is 10h in model time, not in wall time. It could
> well be ok, that it only takes a few seconds to finish that kind of run.)
>
> In your output files (i.e. rsl.error.0000, ...), you find lines like
>
> Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_10:50:00 on domain   1:    1.27500 elapsed
> seconds.
>
> that show you the model time, and the wall time seconds it took to compute
> that iteration.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nils
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Sangamesh B <forum.san at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear WRF users,
>>
>>     I'm a beginner to WRF and want to test its performance scaling on a
>> HPC cluster. Installed it successfully with MPI support for parallel.
>>
>> To check whether the compilation is successful or not, executed a sample
>> test 'em_b_wave' with run_hours=10. But it executed for a few seconds even
>> though I had mentioned 10 hours.
>>
>> I'm don't know whether this successful or not.
>>
>> The commands used are:
>>
>> ./ideal.exe
>>
>> ./wrf.exe
>>
>> The generated output files are:
>>
>> rsl.out.0000     - file attached
>> rsl.error.0000   - file attached
>> wrfout_d01_0001-01-01_01:00:00
>>
>> The content of namelist.input is:
>>
>> # cat namelist.input
>>  &time_control
>>  run_days                            = 0,
>>  run_hours                           = 10,
>>  run_minutes                         = 0,
>>  run_seconds                         = 0,
>>  start_year                          = 0001, 0001, 0001,
>>  start_month                         = 01,   01,   01,
>>  start_day                           = 01,   01,   01,
>>  start_hour                          = 01,   01,   01,
>>  start_minute                        = 00,   00,   00,
>>  start_second                        = 00,   00,   00,
>>  end_year                            = 0001, 0001, 0001,
>>  end_month                           = 01,   01,   01,
>>  end_day                             = 01,   01,   01,
>>  end_hour                            = 06,   06,   06,
>>  end_minute                          = 00,   00,   00,
>>  end_second                          = 00,   00,   00,
>>  history_interval                    = 360,  360,  360,
>>  frames_per_outfile                  = 1000, 1000, 1000,
>>  restart                             = .false.,
>>  restart_interval                    = 3600,
>>  io_form_history                     = 2
>>  io_form_restart                     = 2
>>  io_form_input                       = 2
>>  io_form_boundary                    = 2
>>  debug_level                         = 0
>>  /
>>
>>  &domains
>>  time_step                           = 600,
>>  time_step_fract_num                 = 0,
>>  time_step_fract_den                 = 1,
>>  max_dom                             = 1,
>>  s_we                                = 1,     1,     1,
>>  e_we                                = 41,    41,    41,
>>  s_sn                                = 1,     1,     1,
>>  e_sn                                = 81,    81,    81,
>>  s_vert                              = 1,     1,     1,
>>  e_vert                              = 65,    65,    65,
>>  dx                                  = 100000,20000, 4000,
>>  dy                                  = 100000,20000, 4000,
>>  ztop                                = 16000, 16000, 16000,
>>  grid_id                             = 1,     2,     3,
>>  parent_id                           = 0,     1,     2,
>>  i_parent_start                      = 0,     17,    17,
>>  j_parent_start                      = 0,     33,    33,
>>  parent_grid_ratio                   = 1,     5,     5,
>>  parent_time_step_ratio              = 1,     5,     5,
>>  feedback                            = 1,
>>  smooth_option                       = 0
>>  /
>>
>>  &physics
>>  mp_physics                          = 0,     0,     0,
>>  ra_lw_physics                       = 0,     0,     0,
>>  ra_sw_physics                       = 0,     0,     0,
>>  radt                                = 30,    30,    30,
>>  sf_sfclay_physics                   = 0,     0,     0,
>>  sf_surface_physics                  = 0,     0,     0,
>>  bl_pbl_physics                      = 0,     0,     0,
>>  bldt                                = 0,     0,     0,
>>  cu_physics                          = 0,     0,     0,
>>  cudt                                = 5,     5,     5,
>>  isfflx                              = 1,
>>  ifsnow                              = 0,
>>  icloud                              = 1,
>>  num_soil_layers                     = 5,
>>  /
>>
>>  &fdda
>>  /
>>
>>  &dynamics
>>  rk_ord                              = 3,
>>  diff_opt                            = 1,
>>  km_opt                              = 1,
>>  damp_opt                            = 0,
>>  zdamp                               = 4000.,  4000.,  4000.,
>>  dampcoef                            = 0.01,   0.01,   0.01
>>  khdif                               = 0,      0,      0,
>>  kvdif                               = 0,      0,      0,
>>  smdiv                               = 0.1,    0.1,    0.1,
>>  emdiv                               = 0.01,   0.01,   0.01,
>>  epssm                               = 0.1,    0.1,    0.1
>>  time_step_sound                     = 4,      4,      4,
>>  h_mom_adv_order                     = 5,      5,      5,
>>  v_mom_adv_order                     = 3,      3,      3,
>>  h_sca_adv_order                     = 5,      5,      5,
>>  v_sca_adv_order                     = 3,      3,      3,
>>  non_hydrostatic                     = .true., .true., .true.,
>>  /
>>
>>  &bdy_control
>>  periodic_x                          = .true., .false.,.false.,
>>  symmetric_xs                        = .false.,.false.,.false.,
>>  symmetric_xe                        = .false.,.false.,.false.,
>>  open_xs                             = .false.,.false.,.false.,
>>  open_xe                             = .false.,.false.,.false.,
>>  periodic_y                          = .false.,.false.,.false.,
>>  symmetric_ys                        = .true., .false.,.false.,
>>  symmetric_ye                        = .true., .false.,.false.,
>>  open_ys                             = .false.,.false.,.false.,
>>  open_ye                             = .false.,.false.,.false.,
>>  nested                              = .false., .true., .true.,
>>  /
>>
>>  &grib2
>>  /
>>
>>  &namelist_quilt
>>  nio_tasks_per_group = 0,
>>  nio_groups = 1,
>>  /
>> #
>>
>> The procedure that I followed is correct or wrong?
>>
>> If I have to run it for 10 hours, what parameters should I modify in
>> namelist.input?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
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