Guidelines for Environmentally Sustainable Simulations
This guide, which was largely inspired from Earth IPSL climate models wiki page, provides good practices to reduce as much as possible the environmental footprints of simulations performed with our GCMs. We encourage you to go through the whole list of good practices below:
Contents
- 1 Which model is needed to answer my research question ?
- 2 Are there simulations 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 3D climate model needed to answer my research question? Could a simple, less computationally-expensive model (such as 1D versions of the model, namely rcm1d or kcm1d) provide me the answer?
Are there simulations that already exist to answer my research question?
We encourage you to use the IPSL slack, or contact experienced developers/users of the model, to ask whether such simulations exist. Maybe available simulations are not exactly what you need but their preliminary analysis can speed up and narrow down the design of your new set of simulations.
