2). The general OPEN-MP in the OFFLINE driver is removed
Given:
- the lack of efficiency of the general OPEN-MP in OFFLINE mode, compared to the MPI effect,
- the difficulty to maintain OPEN-MP into the SURFEX code (notably concerning I/O routines),
we remove it from the OFFLINE code.
=> It will not be possible any longer to test the OPEN-MP for AROME, in the OFFLINE mode. It would be good to get the specific OFFLINE driver from Yann Seity to test the OPEN-MP.
There is now some OPEN-MP in the PGD and PREP steps.
It’s better not to put any OPEN-MP in the temporal loop of the model, because OPEN-MP is used in arome outside the call to COUPLING_SURF_ATM.