Participants: Reiner Vogelsang (SGI Deutschland), Marie-Alice Foujols and Philippe Bourcier (IPSL), Sophie Valcke (CERFACS).
 

• The PMIOD/SMIOC dtd with 3 pmiod xml examples and 3 smioc xml examples associated to a atmosphere-ocean-land coupling (version dated 06/06/2003) were presented and discussed. Remarks will be included in the revised version that will be produced before 20/06/2003 by Sophie.

• The SMIOC and the SCC information will, at run time, be used by the PRISM Coupler V.1 (also called OASIS4) which includes a Driver, a Transformer  and the PSMILe V.1. In the non-standalone case, i.e. for a (coupled) model running with a Driver, the SCC  and SMIOC content will be read initially by the Driver using a F90 API to the SASA tools developed at IPSL. The Driver will then transfer the appropriate information to the different model PSMILes. In standalone mode, i.e. for a model running without a Driver, the SCC  and SMIOC content will be read directly by the model PSMILe using the F90 API to the SASA tools. The PSMILe  receives the information (from the Driver or directly by using the F90 API) below the prism_init call  for the SCC information and below the prism_init_comp or prism_enddef call for the SMIOC information.

• The xml information access tool will have  two levels. The lower level accesses specific xml file information (fine granularity) using the DOM parser and XPath functionalities. The information is returned by the lower level as strings (by default), or as integer or real (if these types are specified as attributes of the corresponding xml elements); the information  is combined into F90 structures (coarse granularity) and transfered through the upper level which is the F90 API used by the Driver or directly by the PSMILe.

• Damien and Sophie already proposed the F90 API for the SCC information. Philippe will first study the XPath functionality into more detail and propose a strategy to access the SCC information and an algorithm to recombine it into the structures present into this SCC F90 API. The implementation of the algorithm will be done jointly by Philippe and Sophie. This first step should be achieved before mid of August.

• The SMIOC dtd will be reviewed before 20/06/2003 by Sophie. Sophie and Damien will then propose a F90 API for the SMIOC information (3rd week of July).  Reiner should send his structures needed for I/O information to Sophie. Depending on feasibility the SMIOC F90 API initializes the IO structures directly or Sophie and Damien are  providing  their data structures  such that I/O relevant informations can be extracted from their data structures. Philippe will propose an algorithm to recombine the low-level SMIOC information into the structures present into this SMIOC F90 API. The implementation of the algorithm will be done jointly by Philippe and Sophie. This second step should be achieved before end of August.