From Bron Nelson, February 28, 2019 In the newest version, it is no longer necessary to hand-edit the constants in "recvTask.c" and "readtile_mpiio.c". Instead, the file "SIZE.h" has been modified in two ways: (1) SIZE.h now includes the constant "sFacet" (2) SIZE.h may now be #include in both C and Fortran files This means that "recvTask.c" and "readtile_mpiio.c" now get the information they need directly from "SIZE.h", so the magic constants for the run only need to be edited in one place (namely, SIZE.h). One tile per rank is recommended, mostly for pickup input performance, but it is not strictly necessary. A minimum of one full node of I/O ranks is required. The async I/O does allocate whole nodes to be either an I/O node, or a compute node. It is permitted for the last *compute* node to have a "ragged edge", i.e., have fewer MPI processes on it than the other nodes do. But the I/O nodes are all "full size". The other minimum value the I/O code requires is that there must be at least one core for each field you want to write, e.g., if you are dumping 20 different fields, there must be at least 20 cores allocated to the I/O. Note that the 20 (or whatever) number is *aggregate* across all the I/O nodes, NOT a "per node" number. Another important constraint is that the total memory on all the I/O nodes *collectively* needs to be twice as big as the largest epoch you write. So, if you are writing a 1.5 TB pickup dump, then you should have a sum total of 3TB of memory (or more) on the set of I/O nodes. Choose dumpFreq and pChkptFreq as usual. We're not set up to do the rolling checkpoints yet. It'll dump u,v,t, and etan now - send me a list of other fields you want, as it is rather involved to change them. But this should be enough to see if it works. Set run-time parameter: useSingleCPUio=.FALSE. Only a couple of files are different from previous version. But note in particular that "SIZE.h" is a new file in that directory, and "recvTask.c" has a huge number of changes. The input scheme implemented here is only invoked on the 64bit pickup files. It is specific to the LLC decomposition and will not work on e.g. the Monterey high-res simulations we did a couple years ago. (Although, the code should work for any facet size as specified in SIZE.h) The format of SIZE.h was changed so that it can be included in both C and Fortran files, and I also added the "sFacet" constant that specifies the base facet size (e.g. 1080). So SIZE.h will probably look kinda weird at first, but shouldn't be hard to figure out. The major advantage is that now you no longer need to edit any magic constants in recvTask.c and readtile_mpiio.c - they now derive the info they need by directly including SIZE.h The code now automatically figures out how many ranks are running per node. You can run with whatever number of ranks per node that you want, but the number needs to be consistent for all nodes (except possibly the last node, which can be short). The initial burst of output generated by recvTask.c (the "map" describing the way the I/O processes are allocated) is now somewhat longer and more detailed, but can continue to be ignored. I did NOT try to cure the "integer" problem. It seems that the code is getting fairly close to bumping into the 2G (i.e. 2^31) limit on numbers that fit into a default integer. I *think* you can probably do one more doubling of the resolution (to 8640), but I'm also pretty sure that going past that will break the code.