[Ncep.list.nems.announce] COMMIT DATE CHANGED: Upcoming NEMS, NEMSGSM, NMMBTestBed, and NEMSfv3gfs commits

[Samuel Trahan - NOAA Affiliate]

Hi all,

I will commit change #1 *Tuesday, March 7* instead of Wednesday due to the
announcement a few minutes ago of upcoming Luna downtime.

Sincerely,
Sam Trahan

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Samuel Trahan - NOAA Affiliate <
samuel.trahan at noaa.gov> wrote:

> NEMS developers,
>
> There are two sets of commits coming in soon to the NEMS and three apps.
> The first set will change the NEMS trunk, the NEMSfv3gfs trunk, and the
> NEMSGSM trunk to support changes to the NEMSfv3gfs.  The second will affect
> all three of those, plus the NMMBTestBed app, to support changes from the
> WAM-IPE app.
>
> The first commit will go in between 2:00 and 5:00 Eastern time Wednesday,
> March 8.
>
> The second commit has no target date yet; it will likely be about a week
> or two from now.
>
>
> ========== COMMIT #1: UPDATES FOR FV3 ==========
>
> Commit time: 2:00-5:00 PM Eastern on Wednesday, March 8.
>
> Relevant branches:
>
> NEMSfv3gfs: https://svnemc.ncep.noaa.gov/projects/nems/apps/NEMSfv3gfs/
> branches/appify
> NEMSGSM: https://svnemc.ncep.noaa.gov/projects/nems/apps/NEMSGSM/
> branches/appify-fv3
> NEMS: https://svnemc.ncep.noaa.gov/projects/nems/branches/appify-fv3
> produtil: https://svnemc.ncep.noaa.gov/projects/nceplibs/produtil/
> branches/regtests-run
>
> ---------- NEMS TRUNK ----------
>
> 1. NEMSAppBuilder can build the FV3
>
> 2. produtil external is updated to produtil v. 4.1
>
> 3. The NEMS/src/configure script is updated so that the application-level
> custom compilation scripts can specify all four of the NEMS/src/conf files
> by specifying a path.  That means the bulky "if" statement inside the
> configure script no longer needs to be updated when the application-level
> configure files change.
>
> 4. Add support for building and testing on WCOSS Cray
>
> 5. Workarounds for Luna module purging issues that users have encountered
> over the last week or so (see NEMS/src/conf/module-setup.*.inc)
>
> ---------- NEMSfv3gfs APPLICATION ----------
>
> 1. compsets are added.  Input and baseline are the same as the rt.sh, so
> updating the tests/ updates compsets.  To run the compsets:
> ./NEMS/NEMSCompsetRun -f
>
> 2. compile.sh uses modules and conf files and module files from the
> NEMSfv3gfs level
>
> 3. rt.sh files input.nml.IN and model_configure.IN are in the parm/
> directory so that the compset runner can use the same files
>
> 4. Third and fourth arguments to compile.sh are optional.  Defaults: no
> MAKE_OPS, and the executable will be fv3.exe.
>
> 5. Workarounds for Luna module purging issues.  (tests/* now use the
> NEMS/src/conf/module-setup.sh)
>
> 6. A fifth regression test is added: fv3_appbuilder, which is identical to
> the control, but uses the NEMSAppBuilder to build (via tests/appbuild.sh).
> All other tests use compile.sh to build.
>
>
> ---------- NEMSGSM ----------
>
> 1. FIXGLOBAL in oldtests/rt.sh now points to the versioned area.
>
> 2. Update to the latest NEMS trunk.
>
>
>
>
> ========== COMMIT #2: UPDATES FROM WAM-IPE ==========
>
> I'm not announcing branches or exact commit date until the details of the
> WAM-IPE code changes are finalized.
>
> ---------- NEMS Trunk ----------
>
> 1. Space Weather mediator updated to latest wam-ipe version.
>
> 2. NEMSAppBuilder allows appBuilder files to specify which one is the
> default selection in GUI mode.
>
> 3. Changes to the MAIN_NEMS resource usage monitoring to work around a bug
> in IPE coupling.  Some of the component finalize steps call MPI_Finalize
> without returning control to the MAIN_NEMS.  This is a bug in the
> component, not NEMS.  However, I would rather put in workarounds at the
> NEMS level since the bug will almost certainly come up again in another
> component.  (If you look at the GSM source code, you will see many
> MPI_Finalize calls.)
>
>
> ---------- NEMS uncapped branch ----------
>
> 1,2,3. Same changes as for the NEMS trunk
>
> 4. Changes to physics and dynamics to support the WAM-IPE coupling.
>
> NOTE: if these changes in #4 break the NMMBTestBed, then they will not be
> applied to the uncapped branch, and WAM-IPE will have its own fork of NEMS,
> supported by the NEMS code manager.
>
>
> ---------- NMMBTestBed ----------
>
> 1. Update to head of uncapped branch
>
>
> ---------- NEMSfv3gfs and NEMSGSM ----------
>
> 1. Update to head of NEMS trunk
>
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