Ocean Modeling Discussion

ROMS Folk, Has anyone tried running ROMS on HPC Cloud (e.g. Amazon)? I was looking at the web page for High Performance Computing (HPC) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and then watched this video on How to set up a 64 Core HPC system on AWS in 10 minutes . Looks easy and cool! Seems like it would be ...

The class in Hong Kong worked with me to install pyroms on the i386 VirtualBox images and that gets you most of the capabilities. One thing that was neglected due to *time*, we took nearly three hours to perform the install :) To install the bathy_smoother python module for pyroms: cd external/bathy ...

As a small follow up, it may not find numpy if a path in the configuration process of ccmake is not right. Attached is a screenshot of ccmake. For i386 builds of pyroms, these files should be edited, in the pyroms directory: external/gridgen/CMakeLists.txt:set(CFLAGS "-g -O2 -Wall -m64 -fPIC ...

It certainly looks like numpy is not installed. You can also try: [root@localhost ~]# python -c "import numpy" [root@localhost ~]# If it returns without an error, then numpy is likely installed properly. If you get errors, then numpy needs to be installed. Be aware, netCDF4, numpy, matplotlib, scipy ...