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:

• Preparations
• Case 1 - A Simple Case
• Case 2 - Adding Variables and Investigating Ecosystem Structure
• Case 3 - PFTs and Global Runs