Guidelines for Environmentally Sustainable Simulations
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This guide, which was largely inspired from Earth IPSL wiki page, provides good practices to reduce as much as possible the environmental footprints of simulations performed with our GCMs.
Contents
- 1 Which model is needed to answer my research question ?
- 2 Are there experiments that already exist to answer my research question?
- 3 Is my experimental design well thought through?
- 4 Notify the configuration manager
- 5 Can I share my results to help another researcher?
- 6 Consider the necessary diagnostics
- 7 Check everything before launching the production run
- 8 Two pairs of eyes are better than one
- 9 Don't wait for the end of the simulation before checking
- 10 Share your results with other researchers
- 11 Decrease the number of inodes
Which model is needed to answer my research question ?
Is a full-fledged climate model needed to answer my research question? Could a simple, less computationally-expensive model (such as OSCAR for present-day and future climate or iLOVECLIM for paleoclimates) provide me the answer?
