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Title: Land Ice Verification and Validation Kit

Abstract

To address a pressing need to better understand the behavior and complex interaction of ice sheets within the global Earth system, significant development of continental-scale, dynamical ice-sheet models is underway. The associated verification and validation process of these models is being coordinated through a new, robust, python-based extensible software package, the Land Ice Verification and Validation toolkit (LIVV). This release provides robust and automated verification and a performance evaluation on LCF platforms. The performance V&V involves a comprehensive comparison of model performance relative to expected behavior on a given computing platform. LIVV operates on a set of benchmark and test data, and provides comparisons for a suite of community prioritized tests, including configuration and parameter variations, bit-4-bit evaluation, and plots of tests where differences occur.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
Contributing Org.:
Katherine J. Evans, Joseph Kennedy, Andrew Bennett (subcontractor), Patrick Worley, Adrianna Boghozian (Stanford), Stephen Price (LANL), Matthew Hoffman (LANL)
OSTI Identifier:
1232355
Report Number(s):
LIVV KIT; 003649MLTPL00
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Software
Software Revision:
00
Software Package Number:
003649
Software Package Contents:
Open Source Software package available from Oak Ridge National Laboratory at the following URL: https://github.com/LIVVkit
Software CPU:
MLTPL
Open Source:
Yes
Source Code Available:
Yes
Related Software:
NetCDF 4.3.0+, NCO (NetCDF Operators) 4.4.0, HDF5 1.8.6, NCL (NCAR Command Language + graphics library) 6.1.2
Country of Publication:
United States

Citation Formats

. Land Ice Verification and Validation Kit. Computer software. https://www.osti.gov//servlets/purl/1232355. Vers. 00. USDOE. 15 Jul. 2015. Web.
. (2015, July 15). Land Ice Verification and Validation Kit (Version 00) [Computer software]. https://www.osti.gov//servlets/purl/1232355.
. Land Ice Verification and Validation Kit. Computer software. Version 00. July 15, 2015. https://www.osti.gov//servlets/purl/1232355.
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abstractNote = {To address a pressing need to better understand the behavior and complex interaction of ice sheets within the global Earth system, significant development of continental-scale, dynamical ice-sheet models is underway. The associated verification and validation process of these models is being coordinated through a new, robust, python-based extensible software package, the Land Ice Verification and Validation toolkit (LIVV). This release provides robust and automated verification and a performance evaluation on LCF platforms. The performance V&V involves a comprehensive comparison of model performance relative to expected behavior on a given computing platform. LIVV operates on a set of benchmark and test data, and provides comparisons for a suite of community prioritized tests, including configuration and parameter variations, bit-4-bit evaluation, and plots of tests where differences occur.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1232355}, year = {Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
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