Tips and tricks

Working with ORCA1

If you plan to run diagnostics for ORCA1 resolution, be aware that your workstation will be more than capable to run them. At this resolution, memory and CPU consumption is low enough to allow you keep using the machine while running, specially if you reserve a pair of cores for other uses.

Configuring core usage

By default, the Earth Diagnostics creates a thread for each available core for the execution. If you are using a queueing system, the diagnostics will always use the number of cores that you reserved. If you are running outside a queueing system, the diagnostics will try to use all the cores on the machine. To avoid this, add the MAX_CORES parameter to the DIAGNOSTICS section inside the diags.conf file that you are using.

Cleaning temp file

By default, EarthDiagnostics removes the temporary directory after execution. This behaviour can be avoided be setting ra

By default

earthdiags -f PATH_TO_CONF --clean