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• Key Concepts
  • What's a coupler?
    
  • Dynamic Coupling
    
  • Parallel Coupling
    
  • End-point Communications
    
  • Graphical User Interface PrePALM
    
  • Algebra Toolbox
    
  • Run Time Monitoring
    
  • Performances Analysis
    
• Application Domains
  • Model Coupling
    
  • Data Assimilation
    
  • Code Assembling
    
• History
  
  • The Genesis of the Project
    
  • PALM_SP
    
  • PALM_MP
    
  • OpenPALM
    
  • The PALM Team
    
• Training and Support
  

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Model Coupling

PALM proves to be a very effective coupler for all the applications built upon existing independent models.

The most useful PALM features for such applications are:

• The graphical user interface, making the set-up of a coupled application very simple, even with many coupled models.
  
• The independent interfaces, allowing the use of existing models with very few changes, no matter what the other coupled entities are.
• The management of parallel communications, making the coupling of parallel models almost automatic.
• The dynamic coupling capabilities, allowing more flexible coupling strategies.
• The explicit time reference for the exchanged fields, allowing the coupling of iterative models with different time steps.
• The predefined algebra toolbox, allowing field manipulations, conversions and interpolations on the fly.
• The debugging, performances analysis and run time monitoring tools, simplifying the set-up, the tuning and the control of coupled applications.

Some examples of coupled applications built upon PALM are found in the "applications" section.