[Mapl-support] [Fwd: Introduction to MAPL--comments]

[chris hill]

Max/Atanas,

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Chris

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Mapl-support] Introduction to MAPL--comments
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:49:58 -0700
From: Tom Wainwright <Thomas.Wainwright at noaa.gov>
Reply-To: maplcode support list <mapl-support at MIT.EDU>
To: mapl-support at maplcode.org

Dear Max and co-authors,

I didn't make it to this year's ESMF community forum, but one of my 
staff (Jim
Colbert) did, and was impressed with the potential of MAPL.  I decided 
to see if
I could use it, following the tutorial instructions on the wiki.

First, thanks for the documentation on the wiki!  It provided enough to 
get me
started.  First, I downloaded the fvhs tree, and tried that.  I made 
progress,
but couldn't finish the compile on my system (Linux-x64/g95/openMPI) due 
to some
pointer-related errors deep in the numerical code (g95 doesn't like 
geopk.F90,
lines 252,253).

The latest (June 12, 2007) version of "An Introduction to MAPL" appeared 
about
that time, so I decided to try the simpler Example 1 in that document, by
pulling all the source code in the fvhs/src/Application directory and 
replacing
it with the Example 1 code.  After much tweaking of the top-level 
GNUmakefile
and .esma_arch.mk, I got it to compile and run.

However, there are a few errors in the "Program Example1" code ("An 
Introduction
to MAPL" pdf, p. 7-8) that you might want to fix in the next edition:

     use ESMF: should read:
	use ESMF_Mod
     use MAPL ...: has several syntax errors, should read:
	use MAPL_Mod, only : SetServices=>MAPL_GenericSetServices
     clock = ESMF_ClockCreate(...: needs '&' at end of first line,
	and "rc=STATUS" should read "rc=RC"

Thanks again for MAPL and the documentation!  On to Example 2 next week. 
  Once
we get it all figured out, I think it will greatly simplify getting our
biological code into ESMF.

-- 
Tom Wainwright
NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Newport, Oregon
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