This documentation is for users using the UMUI (Unified Model User Interface). UMUI is required by older superseded UM versions, whereas modern UM versions use Rose/Cylc. The following instructions will help users dependent on UMUI to migrate onto our ARE platform from the older accessdev
environment.
Assumptions
- You are an existing user of UMUI on the NCI
accessdev
system. You therefore have an NCI account that allows read access to the/g/data/access
file system. - You are familiar with using VDI on ARE.
To use UMUI on ARE
- Start a VDI session on ARE.
- Open the Terminal application. The next few steps use the command line.
Make a DB directory in your Gadi home directory.
> mkdir $HOME/umui_DBSE
Copy an experiment from
whereaccessdev
.> rsync -a accessdev:/home/umui_DBSE/$EXPERIMENT $HOME/umui_DBSE
$EXPERIMENT
is your experiment name.- Start the UMUI server.
> /g/data/access/umui/ghui3.0/bin/ghui_startserver umui PRIMARY
- Start the UMUI client.
> /g/data/access/umui/ghui3.0/scripts/umui
- Submit jobs to Gadi as per UMUI.
Caveats
- This uses a local copy of the experiment DB rather than a shared DB.
- You might not have enough space in your Gadi $HOME directory to run experiments, and so you might need to use space on
/g/data
instead. - UMUI uses a fixed port number, so only one copy can run on an ARE node at any time.