Running MM5 on NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center Computing Systems


Jules Kouatchou and Christian Kammogne


The goal of this report is to provide a first hand documentation of the use of the MM5 Mesoscale Model on parallel computer systems. We give practical informations to users who will be executing MM5 on the NASA Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) computing facilities. This work is intended to familiarize potential users with the overall execution procedures of MM5 on the Cray J90, T3E. We describe how to include datasets for single and multiple domains, how to select physics parameters, how to visualize output data, etc. We also present scaling perfomances (timing, speedup, memory usage, I/O) of the MM5 code.