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Update for CAM-FV performance on yellowstone

santos

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When running CESM on yellowstone at NWSC, we currently set "MP_EAGER_LIMIT" to "0". This is a setting recommended for debugging rather than production runs, but it actually improved the throughput of CAM-SE, which was one of our main targets during the yellowstone port.However, we've found that this significantly slows down CAM-FV on yellowstone. Therefore we want to recommend to users doing long runs to remove the setting of MP_EAGER_LIMIT when running CAM-FV. This is found in env_mach_specific, and you can simply comment out or remove the line that sets MP_EAGER_LIMIT, either in your case directory or in a copy of the source code that you have checked out on yellowstone.I do not believe that this is relevant to any other machines, since it is specific to the environment set up by IBM on yellowstone, and I don't know of any other system where this problematic setting was used.
 
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