[gradsusr] OpenGrADS Bundle 2.0.a8 Released!

Arlindo da Silva dasilva at alum.mit.edu
Wed Jul 14 12:36:51 EDT 2010


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Earnshaw, Paul <
paul.earnshaw at metoffice.gov.uk> wrote:

>  I have just tried using the i686 linux PC OpenGraDS bundle for 2.0.a8 and
> it is having trouble running, I get the following
>
>

Which Linux distribution is this? Could you send the output of?

% uname -a
% gcc --version

    Arlindo



> gmdd at els040:> /home/h01/gmdd/grads2/Contents/opengrads
>
>               Welcome to the OpenGrADS Bundle Distribution
>               --------------------------------------------
>
> For additional information enter "opengrads -h".
>
> Starting
> "/net/home/h01/gmdd/grads2/Contents/Linux/Versions/2.0.a8.oga.1/i686/grads
> -HC 1  " ...
>
> gmdd at els040:> echo $?
> 8
> gmdd at els040:>
> /net/home/h01/gmdd/grads2/Contents/Linux/Versions/2.0.a8.oga.1/i686/grads
> -HC 1
> Floating point exception
> Basically, the grads executable is dying as soon as it is starrted with a
> floating point error. The equivalent 2.0.a7.oga.3 bundle works fine.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org [mailto:
> gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org] *On Behalf Of *Arlindo da Silva
> *Sent:* 14 July 2010 02:39
> *To:* GrADS Users Forum
> *Subject:* [gradsusr] OpenGrADS Bundle 2.0.a8 Released!
>
> Dear GrADS Users,
>
> We have started uploading to sf.net sources and binaries for the OpenGrADS
>  Bundle based on COLA's *2.0.a8* release:
>
>        https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengrads/files/
>
> Look under *grads2/2.0.a8.oga.1*
>
> The OpenGrADS Bundle is a new way of packaging GrADS builds that is
> somewhat inspired by my experience with the Win32 Superpacks. The idea is to
> have a single package that require no (minimum?) configuration and that is
> easily relocatable (say to a USB memory stick).  The structure of an
> OpenGrADS Bundle is described here:
>
>   http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_OpenGrADS_Bundle
>
> Once you download the tarball take a look at the INSTALL file. You can
> install it as a Bundle (highly recommended) or simply install the binaries
> the same way you did in the past.
>
> If you would like to build it from sources notice that the OpenGrADS Bundle
> 2.0.a8 requires *Supplibs v2.2.0* available from:
>
>    https://sourceforge.net/downloads/opengrads/supplibs/2.2.0/
>
> The Windows build will be available soon, for now only Mac OS X, Linux,
> FreeBSD and AIX.
>
> *Note for Mac OS X users: *
> **      Unless I hear from you, I am not intending to post a PowerPC
> build. Let me know if you would need a PPC build of the OpenGrADS Bundle.
>
>  This OpenGrADS release has improvements in the LATS interface and
> in several of Mike Fiorino's extensions. We are also deprecating the
> SHAPEFILE extension as this functionality is now built in GrADS.  See the
> included "Documentation.html" for an in-depth description of the OpenGrADS
> extensions. See below for additional information on this release.
> *
> *
>    Cheers!
>
>    Arlindo da SIlva
>    On behalf of the OpenGrADS Development team
>
>
>
>                     The OpenGrADS Bundle Distribution
>                     ---------------------------------
>
>                           http://opengrads.org
>
>                           GrADS Version 2.0.a8
>                           Released 10 July 2010
>
> This OpenGrADS version is based on COLA's 2.0.a8 release which has
> many new features, including several that were required to support
> COLA's work with extremely high resolution data sets.
>
> COLA's GrADS version 2.0.a8 is now linked with netCDF-4, which
> supports compressed netCDF files and also has a new OPeNDAP interface
> for gridded data sets. (This feature had already been included in all
> OpenGrADS releases since 2.0.a2.) The netCDF-4 support by COLA
> includes new commands (q cache, q cachesf, set cachesf, set
> chunksize), new options to 'set sdfwrite' (-nc3/-nc4, -chunk, -zip,
> -flt/-dbl), and a new descriptor file entry: CACHESIZE. Please begin
> by reading the User's Guide page entitled "Reading and Writing
> Compressed Data Sets" at
>
>     http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/compression.html.
>
> A side benefit to the netCDF-4 development was that it led to an
> improvement in the HDF5 interface, which is now significantly faster
> than in the previous release.
>
> GrADS version 2.0.a8 also supports reading and drawing shapefiles, and
> the OpenGrADS SHAPE extension is being discontinued. The shapefile
> interface is adapted from an original design by Graziano Giuliani, the
> same code used for developing the OpenGrADS SHAPE extension. There are
> several new commands: 'draw shp', 'q shp', 'q dbf', and 'set shpopts',
> and a User's Guide page entitled "Drawing and Querying the Contents of
> a Shapefile" at http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/shapefiles.html .
>
> COLA's work with extremely high resolution data sets led to a bunch of
> changes to the GRIB interface. We added support for GRIB1 and GRIB2
> files that are greater than 2Gb. This is handled with a "-big" option
> to gribmap. A simple change to the user interface, but a fairly
> significant change to code "under the hood." The gribmap utility now
> also supports the "-b" option for GRIB2 data sets, a option that is
> required for the new CFS Reanalysis. Both gribmap and wgrib have been
> modified to support ECMWF grib files that have record lengths bigger
> than 8MB.
>
> There is a new graphics output option that is useful for the
> interactive display of high-resolution data: 'set gxout imap'. This
> quickly draws shaded grid boxes just like 'gxout grfill', but the
> metafile is not updated so printim and print will not work. But it
> saves a lot of time when browsing through data and 'fishing' for
> something interesting to look at.
>
> Two final miscellaneous items in the new release:
> * Added template substitution strings %t4, %t5, %t6, %tm4, %tm5, %tm6
> * New command 'q contours' returns contour colors and levels
>
> This OpenGrADS release has improvements in the LATS interface and in
> several of Mike Fiorino's extensions.  See the included
> "Documentation.html" for an in-depth description of these new
> extensions.
>
> Several other important OpenGrADS additions are available with this
> version:
>
> - grads is now built with NetCDF v4.1.1 which includes support
>   for NetCDF-4/HDF-5 (similar to gradsnc4 in v1.9.0-rc1) and has
>   built in OPeNDAP support.
>
> - this is an OpenGrADS Bundle release, a relocatable, minimum
>   configuration package that has all that you need to run GrADS. See
>   INSTALL for additonal information.
>
> - we have introduced option -C to enable colorized text
>
> - preview release of the OpenGrADS Extensions; the same extensions
>   available in GrADS v1.9.0-rc1 are now available with GrADS v2.0.
>
>   Caveat: as COLA is yet to publish the official API for User Defined
>           functions in GrADS v2.0 we have adopted here an API that
>           is based on our work vith v1.9.0-rc1. This is a very low-level
>           API that is *not* endorsed by COLA. As such, it is *not*
> advisable
>           that users adopt this API to write their own extensions.
>
> - These extensions are still being fully tested. Please report any problems
>   you encounter. Use them at your own risk.
>
> - The following extensions are included: see below.
>
>
> Documentation and Additional Information
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Consult
>            OpenGrADS Website: http://opengrads.org
>                GrADS Website: http://grads.iges.org/grads
>
>                       ---------------------
>                       User Defined Commands
>                       ---------------------
>
>
>    Command            Environment Variables               Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  printenv    Expand environment variables             c_xenv@^env.gex
>  runenv      Expand env vars and run command          c_env@^env.gex
>  @           Expand env vars and run command          c_env@^env.gex
>  getenv      Get value of environment variable        c_getenv@^env.gex
>  setenv      Set value of environment variable        c_setenv@^env.gex
>
>    Command           GxYAT: Image Generation              Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  gxyat       Save images in PNG/SVG/PDF/PS            c_gxyat@^gxyat.gex
>  set_rgba    Set color red/green/blue/alpha           c_rgba@^gxyat.gex
>
>    Command           Simple Extension Example             Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  hello       Hello, World! sample command             c_hello@
> ^libhello.gex
>
>    Command          Interprocess Communication            Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  ipc_verb    IPC verbose toggle                       c_Verb@^libipc.gex
>  ipc_open    Open stream for save/load                c_Open@^libipc.gex
>  ipc_close   Close stream                             c_Close@^libipc.gex
>  ipc_save    Save expression to stream                c_Save@^libipc.gex
>  ipc_define  Define variable (obsolete)               c_Define@^libipc.gex
>  ipc_error   Print IPC error message                  c_Error@^libipc.gex
>
>    Command    LATS: File Reformatting and Subsetting      Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  set_lats    Set LATS parameters                      c_lats_set@
> ^liblats.gex
>  query_lats  Query LATS parameters                    c_lats_query@
> ^liblats.gex
>  lats_grid   Define LATS grid                         c_lats_grid@
> ^liblats.gex
>  lats_data   Write data to LATS file                  c_lats_data@
> ^liblats.gex
>  reinit_lats Re-init LATS parameters                  c_lats_reinit@
> ^liblats.gex
>
>    Command          Mike Fiorino's Extensions             Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  mfhilo      Find max/min or H/L in 2D field          c_mfhilo@^libmf.gex
>  tcprop      Properties radinf from central lon/lat   c_tcprop@^libmf.gex
>  grhist      histogram of expr                        c_grhist@^libmf.gex
>
>    Command          Satellite Orbit Extensions            Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  set_orb     Set ORB parameters                       c_set@^orb.gex
>  orb_track   Satellite ground tracks                  c_track@^orb.gex
>
>
>                       ----------------------
>                       User Defined Functions
>                       ----------------------
>
>   Function         Ben-Jei Tsuang's Extensions            Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  lt          Local time                               f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  jd          Julian day                               f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  cosz        Cosine solar zenith angle                f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  dayratio    Daylight ratio                           f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  if          Conditional function                     f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  maxv        Maximum value                            f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  minv        Minimum value                            f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  which       Label gridpoints                         f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  ftest       F-test                                   f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  ttest       T-test                                   f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  tfit        Point  linear regression                 f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  fit         Global linear regression                 f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  tcorr2      Time correlation                         f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  tregr2      Point linear regression                  f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  tmave2      Time averaging w/masking                 f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  madvu       Calculates -d(u*EXPR)/dx                 f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  madvv       Calculates -d(V*EXPR)/dy                 f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  madvw       Calculates -d(W*EXPR)/dp                 f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  muadv       Zonal advection                          f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  mvadv       Meridional advection                     f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  mwadv       Vertical advection                       f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  satvap      Saturated vapor pressure                 f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  dew         Dew point temperature                    f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  lw          Thermal infrared fluxes                  f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  lw2         Thermal infrared fluxes v2               f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  pinterp     Pressure interpolation                   f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  zinterp     Height interpolation                     f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  line        Draws a line                             f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>  vint2       Mass-weighted vertical integral          f_bjt@^libbjt.gex
>
>   Function     Streamfunction & Velocity Potential        Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  fish        Poisson solver                           f_fish@^fish.gex
>  fish_psi    Compute streamfunction                   f_psichi@^fish.gex
>  fish_chi    Compute velocity potential               f_psichi@^fish.gex
>  fish_vor    Compute vorticity                        f_psichi@^fish.gex
>  fish_div    Compute divergence                       f_psichi@^fish.gex
>
>   Function       Saakeskus Wx Function Collection         Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  dewpt       Dew-point temperature                    f_gsudf@^gsudf.gex
>  ept         Equivalent potential temperature         f_gsudf@^gsudf.gex
>  epi         Potential Instability                    f_gsudf@^gsudf.gex
>  plcl        Pressure at LCL                          f_gsudf@^gsudf.gex
>  shear       Wind Shear                               f_gsudf@^gsudf.gex
>  srh1km      Storm-relative Helicity 0-1km'           f_gsudf@^gsudf.gex
>  srh3km      Storm-relative Helicity 0-3km'           f_gsudf@^gsudf.gex
>  tlcl        Temperature at LCL                       f_gsudf@^gsudf.gex
>  tsindex     Chance of T-storm Initiation             f_gsudf@^gsudf.gex
>  ttindex     Total Totals Index                       f_gsudf@^gsudf.gex
>  wchill      Wind Chill Index (New)                   f_gsudf@^gsudf.gex
>
>   Function           Simple Extension Example             Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  hello       Hello, World! sample function            f_hello@
> ^libhello.gex
>
>   Function          Interprocess Communication            Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  ipc_save    Save expression to stream                f_Save@^libipc.gex
>  ipc_load    Load variable from file                  f_Load@^libipc.gex
>
>   Function          Mike Fiorino's Extensions             Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  smth2d      Shuman smoother/de-smoother              f_smth2d@^libmf.gex
>  uv2trw      Find radial/tangential velocity          f_uv2trw@^libmf.gex
>  re2         General interpolator (regrid2)           f_re2@^libmf.gex
>  esmrf       Saturation vapor pressure (old MRF)      f_esmrf@^libmf.gex
>  linreg      Linear regression: mx + b                f_linreg@^libmf.gex
>
>   Function          Satellite Orbit Extensions            Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  orb_mask    Satellite orbit masking                  f_mask@^orb.gex
>
>   Function             Regridding Functions               Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  re          General interpolator                     ffre@^re.gex
>  re_         General interpolator (verbose)           ffre_dbg@^re.gex
>  regrid2     regrid2-like wrapper for re()            f_gsudf@^gsudf.gex
>  geos        Interpolation to GEOS-5 Grids            f_gsudf@^gsudf.gex
>  reimg       Interpolation for Image Generation'      f_gsudf@^gsudf.gex
>
>   Function         Spherical Harmonic Analysis            Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  sh_filt     Spherical harmonic filter                f_shfilt@^shfilt.gex
>  sh_power    Spherical harmonic spectra               f_shpowr@^shfilt.gex
>
>
>                                  I M P O R T A N T
>                                  -----------------
>
> The following extension is being discontinued as shapefile support is
> now built into GrADS. If for some reason you must use these extensions
> pelase
> contact dasilva at opengrads.org for a way of activating it in this version..
>
>
>    Command             Shapefile Extensions               Function at Library
>  ----------- ---------------------------------------
>  --------------------------
>  shp_lines   Draw lines    from shapefile             c_lines@^shape.gex
>  shp_polyf   Draw polygons from shapefile             c_polyf@^shape.gex
>
>
>
> --
> Arlindo da Silva
> dasilva at alum.mit.edu
>
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-- 
Arlindo da Silva
dasilva at alum.mit.edu
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