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