Future Releases
Planned Future Releases of POP
The next planned release of POP is version 2.0 with an expected
release before June 2001. This release will include:
- New decomposition scheme for improved cache performance, land
point elimination, load balancing and hybrid OpenMP/MPI model.
- Status: Comm routines tested and working
- Issues:
- Commit date: unknown
- New I/O module with netCDF and parallel 'self-describing'
binary formats.
- Status: Requirements and design doc completed.
netCDF code tested
- Issues: Binary format still needs to be completed.
Some code cleanup required.
- Commit date: unknown
- Reference Manual
- Status: Partial draft completed with most items
finished.
- Issues: Fill in remaining sections. Format decisions
incomplete (eg LaTeX2HTML)
- Commit date:
- Improved interfaces for multiple tracers.
- Status: not started
- Issues: Compatibility with existing efforts in
biogeochemistry.
- Commit date:
- Improved diagnostic/tavg/history interface.
- Status: not started
- Issues: Support for MOS, MHT diagnostics, regional
diagnostics.
- Commit date:
Other CCSM related decision points:
- Number of vertical levels in x1
- Completion date: 29 Jan
- Status: awaiting test runs
- Final decisions on topography/grid issues
- Completion date: 2 Feb
- Status: awaiting test runs on smoothing
- Complete x1 coupling mechanics (eg. transfer matrices)
- Completion date: 2 Feb
- Status: in progress
- Define anisotropic viscosity parameters
- Completion date: 9 Feb
- Status: designing test runs
- Determination of GM parameter values
- Completion date: 16 Feb
- Status: awaiting test runs
- Final decisions on x1 configuration
- Completion date: 28 Feb
- Status: awaiting all above results
- Explore partial bottom cells
- Completion date: indefinite
- Status: