Quick overview
The following pages describe the steps necessary to ensure a successful build of OpenIFS on your computer.
OpenIFS is intended for installation and use on system external to ECMWF. We do not provide a facility to run OpenIFS for external users.
- Prerequisites page. Read this before you start. OpenIFS requires a number of software packages to be available on the target computer system.
- Supported systems. Lists the hardware and compilers that we provide compilation configurations for and the support level.
- Install grib_api for OpenIFS. Even if you have grib_api already installed on your system, we recommend installing grib_api for OpenIFS as the version accompanying the model has been tested to work correctly.
- Install FCM. OpenIFS requires FCM v2.3. You can skip installing FCM if you already have it installed. If not, follow the instructions here.
- Installation instructions take you through the process of compiling the model, introduces the build system and shows you how to configure the model for your machine.
- Finally, do a test integration to verify the model works.
Support
Questions or problems can be directed to the user forums, comments found on these pages. Or you can email openifs-support@ecmwf.int.