running-fates-walkthrough.rst

Introduction to Running FATES

This tutorial was presented at the 2019 CTSM Tutorial session and has an accompanying slide deck.

Materials

1. This course is supported on the following HPCs
   • For CTSM: cheyenne
   • For E3SM: cori
2. Modest computational allocation
3. The “FATESTutorialPacket_Feb2019.tgz” packet
4. An ssh connection with either:
   • X-windows connection
   • Ability to scp/sftp (transfer files back to your lappy)
5. (optional) A text editor to modify text files

Requisite/Helpful Knowledge

1. Basic familiarity with Unix/Linux operating system (required)
2. Basic familiarity with git (helpful)
3. Use of auto-complete to avoid typos ("Tab")

Notes

1. block-quotes is used to show terminal interactions like so:

   $ this is a code block

2. block quotes that begin with $ distinguishes a terminal command

3. the <> generally will indicate some type of arbitrary variable

Contents

The tutorial is split into four different sections:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   running-fates-walkthrough-prep
   running-fates-walkthrough-case1
   running-fates-walkthrough-case2
   running-fates-walkthrough-case3