Fortuna 2.5 User's Guide: Difference between revisions

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As explained above, the contents of the <code>cap_restart</code> file determine the start of the model run in model time, which determines boundary conditions and the times stamps of the output.  The end time may be set in <code>CAP.rc</code> with the property <code>END_DATE</code>  (format ''YYYYMMDD HHMMSS'', with a space), though integration is usually leisurely enough that one can just kill the job or rename the run script <code>gcm_run.j</code> so that it is not resubmitted to the job queue.
As explained above, the contents of the <code>cap_restart</code> file determine the start of the model run in model time, which determines boundary conditions and the times stamps of the output.  The end time may be set in <code>CAP.rc</code> with the property <code>END_DATE</code>  (format ''YYYYMMDD HHMMSS'', with a space), though integration is usually leisurely enough that one can just kill the job or rename the run script <code>gcm_run.j</code> so that it is not resubmitted to the job queue.


Most of the other properties in <code>CAP.rc</code> are discussed elsewhere, but two that are important for understanding how the batch jobs work are <code>JOB_SGMT</code>, the length of the segment, and <code>NUM_SGMT<code>, the number of segments that the job tries to run before resubmitting itself and exiting.  <code>JOB_SGMT</code> is in the format of ''YYYYMMDD HHMMSS'' (but usually expressed in days) and <code>NUM_SGMT</code> as an integer, so the multiple of the two is the total model time that a job will attempt to run.  It may be tempting to just run one long segment, but much housekeeping is done between segments, such as saving state in the form of restarts and spawning archiving jobs that keep your account from running over disk quota.
Most of the other properties in <code>CAP.rc</code> are discussed elsewhere, but two that are important for understanding how the batch jobs work are <code>JOB_SGMT</code>, the length of the segment, and <code>NUM_SGMT</code>, the number of segments that the job tries to run before resubmitting itself and exiting.  <code>JOB_SGMT</code> is in the format of ''YYYYMMDD HHMMSS'' (but usually expressed in days) and <code>NUM_SGMT</code> as an integer, so the multiple of the two is the total model time that a job will attempt to run.  It may be tempting to just run one long segment, but much housekeeping is done between segments, such as saving state in the form of restarts and spawning archiving jobs that keep your account from running over disk quota.