Activities for week of February 1, 2016
- 5 Days PTO
Activities for week of February 8, 2016
- 2 Days PTO
- WRFHELP emails:
- Answered question about generating be.dat
- Answered question about text files (fort.###) generated by GEN_BE (Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics)
- Resolved problem (user found solution) for compiling madis2littler. Very strange problem, probably something bad in user's environment. (Texas A&M)
- Answered question about compilation problems (user was using Intel 14, which has lots of problems. Upgrading to Intel 15 solved it)
- Had meeting with Dave, Laurie (HWRF), and Christina (HWRF) about transition to git
- Regtest:
- Continuing update of local regression tests (loblolly, visit-a05) to most recent version
- Created WRFPLUS/4DVAR tests for WTF
Activities for week of February 15, 2016
- Troubleshooting new WRFPLUS/4DVAR tests in WTF with Dave
- Adding Netcdf4, HDF5, and hybrid tests to local machines (Linux, Mac)
- Commits to the trunk:
- Adding new necessary files to WRFDA depend.txt
- Attended Release Committee meeting
- Sent details about WRFDA internal compiler error to CISL
Activities for week of February 22, 2016
- Jon upgraded my testing Mac machine to the new OS, revealed some problems with case-sensitivity that needed fixing
- Found a problem in WRFDA/WRF for gfortran 5+; Dave applied fix
- Commits to the trunk:
- Updating "nrange" to have a larger value to allow for very big domains in GEN_BE and WRFDA
- Found problems with case sensitivity in WRFDA builds on new Mac OS "El Capitan";
- Another meeting about transition to git
- Moving more stuff over from SVN repositories to new Git one; learning about svn-git syncing since HWRF may keep SVN repo
- Contacted CISL help about getting HDF5 libraries to work properly for gfortran 5+
- WRFDA regression test improvements:
- Can now test hybrid jobs on local machines
- Consolidating the locations of libraries such as HDF5, rttov, WRFPLUS to make running easier on different machines
- Updated README for new linking of libraries/capabilities
Activities for week of February 29, 2016
- Commits to the trunk:
- Bug fix and cleanup for IASI BUFR read subroutine
- WTF improvements:
- Got WRFPLUS/4DVAR tests to run in serial as well as dmpar
- Manually lowered WRFPLUS optimization to get compile times down to reasonable numbers for ifort
- WRFDA regression test improvements:
- Can now run smpar and dm+sm tests
- Learning more about OpenMP in WRFDA/GEN_BE
- Ran GEN_BE parallelism timing tests
- Wrote up new configure script logic to allow separate selection of GEN_BE and WRFDA parallelism; will not commit this
- Sent email to Xin Li about friendly release for final testing
- Testing dual-resolution problems for gfortran; found bug, sent along to Jamie