gftl-shared with CCE?

[AlexanderRichert-NOAA]

I'm trying to compile gFTL-shared with Cray compiler on one of the NOAA systems, and I'm getting a lot of errors. Is it intended to support the Cray compiler, or if not, is there an plan to? I'm happy to provide more detail about error messages etc.

[tclune]

Yes - to both. At one point the Cray compiler could support pFUnit but the support was not maintained as I don't have direct access to a Cray compiler. But just last month, a user reached out to me with saying that he was working with Cray on a port: "The Cray chap, Ian Cockshot, should hopefully be creating a branch off of the pfunit repo at some point and adding in the changes. As mentioned it is a bit of a hack so you will want to check things."

We've already identified a portability bug in the MPI launch and I'm planning to merge that change very soon. But I have not yet seen any of the changes mentioned above. Even if I regard some of the code changes to be unacceptable for the main release, I'm happy to maintain a side branch for Cray so long as there are users that can actively check new releases and report back.