Can we compile fortran 90 on external hdd?

[s_hy]

Hi,

I need to compile a programming written in fortran90 and the output will be in 10 000 data files(maybe more) size 3.5Mb each. My notebook's memory is not enough to store all the data file, I am using Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop with openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64). I have 1TB external hdd and thinking about to compile the programming from external and store all the data files and figure inside external but I don't know how to do that. Can anyone teach me?

Thank you

 

[SteamKing]

Hi,

I need to compile a programming written in fortran90 and the output will be in 10 000 data files(maybe more) size 3.5Mb each. My notebook's memory is not enough to store all the data file, I am using Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop with openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64). I have 1TB external hdd and thinking about to compile the programming from external and store all the data files and figure inside external but I don't know how to do that. Can anyone teach me?

Thank you

Make sure your Fortran program allows you to redirect output data files to the external drive (letter D: or whatever). You haven't said if the filenames for all 10000 output files are generated by the program or by user input.

Compiling the program and running the program are two separate processes. Unless your program is totally huge, you probably can compile it on your laptop w/o needing the external drive.

 

[jtbell]

Your program should be able to read input files from an external hard disk and write output files to an external hard disk, regardless of where the program itself is located. You need to know how to specify a proper path name for the input and output files in the OPEN statements. For example, under Mac OS I would specify '/Volumes/diskname/foldername/subfoldername/filename'. I don't know how you would do it under openSUSE.

 

[Borek]

I need to compile a programming written in fortran90 and the output will be in 10 000 data files(maybe more) size 3.5Mb each.

You may want to think about the storage organization. Depending on the file system, 10000 files, if kept in a single directory, can seriously slow down input/output operations.

 

[gsal]

Reading input and writing output to the hdd shouldn't be a problem...simply compile your program wherever, then, change directories to the working directory in the hdd and run the program from there.

cd                              # cd alone takes you to your home directory
cd myprogram           # cd to where the fortran program is
gfortran myprog.f90  # compile

cd /path/to/externaldrive  # cd external drive top directory /mnt/something?
cd workingdirectory      # cd to working directory
~/myprogram/myprog < inputfile

As Borek said, you may want to develop a scheme to organize your files. Fortran is not a systems programming language and while passing a path filename to a file one, two or three directories deep may actually create the internediate directories if needed, it may not be the most efficient way...

...so, you may want to also brush up your bash scripting for creating ahead of time all those directories and possibly manipulating those 10000 files after the fact...you will need it...either to erase them, move them, filter them out looking for certain patterns, subsets, etc.

 

[s_hy]

thank you for all the reply. I have got the idea right now.

 

[s_hy]

I have found out that my external couldn't do the compilation work. It happened to be as storage only. I have wrote a test code to write all the data into path

subroutine fd1d
implicit none

double precision                   :: f0,miu,delta,S,E0,Ca,Da,tdelta,c,Cb,Db,lambda               
integer                                 :: iinit,ilast,i,j,n 
double precision,dimension(202)    :: Ez,Hy
double precision, parameter   :: pi = 3.14159265
character(len=100)                :: filename

!character(len=100),parameter       :: filename = "/run/media/sharwani/TOSHIBAEXT/PHDresearch/1dtest"


 f0 = 100.0
 miu = 1.0
 delta = 1.e-3
 S = 1.0001
 E0 = 1.0
 iinit = 1 
 ilast = 100

 c = 1.0
 lambda = c/f0
 tdelta = (delta/c)/sqrt(2.0)

!initialization
do j = 1, 2*ilast
 If (Mod(j,2) == 0) then 
    Hy(j) = 0
    else
    Ez(j) = 0
 End if
end do


 Ca = 1.0
 Cb = (tdelta/delta)


 Da = 1.0
 Db = tdelta/(miu*delta)

do n = 1,200
   
  filename = "/run/media/sharwani/TOSHIBAEXT/PHDresearch/1dtest"
  write (filename,"('ez',I3.3,'.dat')") n
  open (unit=130,file = filename)  
  
  do j = 2, 2*ilast-1
     if (Mod(j,2) /= 0) then 
        Ez(j) = Ca*Ez(j) + Cb*(Hy(j+1)-Hy(j-1))
        write (130,*) Ez(j)
     end if
  end do !j

  do j = 2, 2*ilast-1
     if (Mod(j,2) == 0) then
        Hy(j) = Da*Hy(j) + Db*(Ez(j+1)-Ez(j-1))  
     end if 
  end do !j

  !plane wave source
   Ez(101) = E0*sin (2*pi*f0*n*tdelta)

 close (unit=130)

end do !n

end SUBROUTINE fd1d

the output file is assumed to be write into path which is the external hard disc, but it doesn't work. Can anyone advice me what is wrong with this code.


Thank you

 

[gsal]

It seems to me that you are overwriting the contents of "filename" with just "ez001.dat" on top of the previous (full path) contents. You do not want to write to "filename"...what you want is to concatenate to it.

or

write(filename, "('/run/media/sharwani/TOSHIBAEXT/PHDresearch/1dtest/ez',I3.3,'.dat')") n

 

[s_hy]

thank you gsal. it's worked!