Lead Testers,
I am happy to say that after the portal system is back from maintenance
on Friday all the infrastructure and WRF looks very stable and 100% of
the workflows ended successfully. Also since the new wrf 2.2 workflows
are working good and since they need more testing, I have removed the
old wrf 2.1 workflows and other development ones from sample workflow
repository. So test more of the weather challenge scenario (5km regional
configuration) with both NAM and ADAS workflows which will run latest
ARPS and WRF.
Thanks to NCSA & IU resource providers, starting tomorrow we do have
reservation of compute resources for 5 hours each day until end of
wxchallenge from Noon CST - ie from 18Z to 23Z. So try to launch your
workflows before 18Z to finish them on time. After you see the WRF
component turn green and start to see *Active* messages in final
notifications in xbaya, the estimated time of completion for a 36 hour
5km forecast is 3 hours 20 mins.
Note: We are still working on making the nested configurations and post
processing services available and also looking at refining WRF timings.
LEAD Met. Group Testers,
Please look at your workspace for input files and wrf output in IDV and
verify if the forecasts and configurations are valid.
HU & MU students,
Prof. Gannon from IU has been the leading the race of frequent testing
and finding problems immediatly after they occur (50% of the workflows
are run by him). I urge all of you to challenge him and do more testing
and report problems. (Sorry for more emails Tom). The winner gets a
free bonus additional hour of forecast. So when you run a 36 hour
forecast and if you see 37 hour results then you win, shoot for it guys
:-) .
Thanks,
Suresh
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