Running the VIC Image Driver¶

Dependencies:¶

The Image Driver has three dependencies:

A C compiler. We routinely test VIC using the following compilers:
- GNU (gcc version 4+)
- Clang (clang version 3+)
VIC has also been compiled using these compilers:
- Intel (icc)
- PGI (pgcc)
MPI. We have tested VIC with the following MPI implementations:
- Open MPI (version 1.5.4+)
- MPICH (version 1.2+)
netCDF4

Compiling¶

In most cases, you will need to edit the NETCDF_PATH and MPI_PATH variables in the Makefile.

If you want to use a compiler other than mpicc, either edit the Makefile or set the MPICC environment variable, e.g.

    MPICC=/path/to/mpi_c_compiler

The flags and libraries required to compile VIC with netCDF are automatically determined in the Makefile. They can be overwritten by setting the following two environment variables. These variables can be determined by running nc-config --all.

    NC_LIBS="-L/path/to/libs ..."
    NC_CFLAGS="-I/path/to/includes -your_c_flags ..."

In some versions of the MPI library (e.g. OPEN-MPI with Intel), you may also need to set the environment variable MX_RCACHE=2 prior to compiling.

Change directory, cd, to the "Image Driver" source code directory and type make
```
cd vic/drivers/image
make
```
If this completes without errors, you will now see a file called vic_image.exe in this directory. vic_image.exe is the executable file for the model.

Run VIC¶

At the command prompt, type:

vic_image.exe -g global_parameter_filename.txt

where global_parameter_filename = name of the global parameter file corresponding to your project.

To run VIC image driver using multiple processors, type the following instead:

mpiexec -np n_proc vic_image.exe -g global_parameter_filename.txt

where n_proc = number of processors to be used

Other Command Line Options¶

VIC has a few other command line options:

vic_image.exe -v: says which version of VIC this is
vic_image.exe -h: prints a list of all the VIC command-line options
vic_image.exe -o: prints a list of all of the current compile-time settings in this executable; to change these settings, you must edit the appropriate header files (e.g. vic_def.h or vic_driver_shared.h) and recompile using make full.