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Reading SQL with PySqlite

tmoore — Fri, 06 May 2011 01:03:09 +0000

About a year or so ago, I wrote a special script to run the FOAM climate model. The primary goal of this script, besides running the model, was to store a wide variety of information about the run, including settings, system information (like CPU temperature), and the timing and duration of the run. The storing process stored some of the information before the model starts and after the model ends. It's a great log of my model run and system performance history.

FOAM Output Variables

tmoore — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:39:34 +0000

Since I get many questions on what's contained in FOAM output, here's a list of all the variables contained in the standard atmosphere, coupler, and ocean output files.

Using SQLite and Python to Store Model Metadata

tmoore — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:34:00 +0000

As I continue to run a range of climate models, I've learned from painful lessons that I need to record as much information about the model run as possible. When I first started this process, I simply kept files used to make the run (the geography and configuration files for the model) and the model output. At first, this seemed sufficient because, in the end, these were the data that were most important. As it turns out, however, that having a history of everything you did during the model run, such as adjustments to the settings or geography, is also important both historically to the run and possibly sorting out problems later.

Climate Model on a Mac: Snow Leopard

tmoore — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:41:28 +0000

Snow Leopard, the latest OS offering from Apple, promised to be both 64-bit and faster. The question is whether Apple delivered those promises and whether those improvements impact modeling.

First, I got Snow Leopard booting to the 64-bit Snow Leopard kernal. There are instructions how to do this out there on the web (note that you don't have to bother if your machine is 64-Bit and you're running the server version).

More info below the fold..

Running FOAM's Ocean Model (OM3) Without The Atmosphere

tmoore — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:14:26 +0000

Running a coupled climate model takes a LONG time. Frequently, modelers don't use a full ocean model to save on time and CPU usage. However, when an ocean model is used, it is sometimes helpful to stop the fully coupled model and run the ocean by itself for some time. This helps spin up the ocean without using as much CPU time. This video is how to do it for paleo cases in FOAM.

Adding Climate Model Content To Site

tmoore — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:07:28 +0000

As part of the ongoing efforts to make simulations run by PaleoTerra more useful, we are updating the site to list all climate models run by PaleoTerra and to start making the climate model reports, images, and animations available online to clients.

What's New in the Climate Model Report Format

tmoore — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:16:29 +0000

Here is a quick video on what's new with the PaleoTerra climate model report. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Climate Model on a Mac #15: Watch those dynamic libraries!

tmoore — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:08:00 +0000

I recently upgraded my PGI compiler to version 8, and I had tons of trouble getting the climate model to compile and run. In this case, I decided to switch from mpich 1.2.7 to OpenMPI, on the hopes it would be better for the system and easier to set up.

However, nothing linked properly. If the software compiled, then it would have tons of MPI related errors. As a rule, I install all the libraries needed to run the model in the /opt directory, since it's easier to have more than one version of various libraries (different versions, different compilers, 32 vs 64 bit, etc), so I didn't think there could be a conflict in the libraries.

Climate model on a mac project: #14 Knowing when you quit...

tmoore — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:02:00 +0000

When not using a scheduler like Torque/PBS, it can be complicated to find out whether the model has quit. If the run was successful, you can have a reasonable idea when it SHOULD quit, but it might crash long before that time. As a result, you've lost hours, if not days, of computing time.

Climate Model on a Mac Project #1

tmoore — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:55:00 +0000

Computer clusters can be expensive to buy and expensive to maintain. My current linux cluster has 18 CPUs, and takes up about 13U of rack space in a colocation facility, and uses 17-18 amps of power.