ACCESS-rAM3 Beta Feedback

[Aidan (Aidan Heerdegen, ACCESS-NRI Release Team Lead)]

The beta release has been updated, we are now at our second iteration:

ACCESS-rAM3: Release Information

To receive email notifications when a new release is announced, please watch this topic. ACCESS-rAM3 Release: Beta, iteration 2 This is the first ACCESS-NRI supported release of ACCESS-rAM3, an implementation of the UK Met Office (UKMO) regional nesting suite. More information about the model is available on the ACCESS Hive Docs. Importantly, unlike other models this is a suite that supports creating regional atmosphere/land configurations in an Australian context. The suite enabl…

Notably:

Fixed in this release update

Regional Ancillary Suite: queue settings have been fixed
Regional Nesting Suite: automated house-keeping of driving data

Any testing of the netCDF output and the changes made above would be welcome.
What should be observed:

• The RAS should run much quicker. At the very least the runtime should be more consistent. Previously it was using HUGEMEM queues, which can often suffer very long wait times.
• The RNS should use a lot less disk space in total, and not increase with overall run length. @mlipson noted above the driving data should be capped at 30GB, but we have not independently verified this figure yet.