GENIE ALADDIN2

=ALADDIN: the GENIE launchpad=

ALADDIN has been developed as part of the [ENGAGE] programme, in collaboration with the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute [OMII].

Get ALADDIN
At the moment, ALADDIN is available in the [ENGAGE branch] of the GENIE repository, which you will need if you want to compile your own experiments for ALADDIN. Contact martin_dot_johnson_at_uea.ac.uk for details. In the future the ALADDIN standalone package will be available for download along with some example experiments.

What ALADDIN can do
The ALADDIN launchpad is designed as a means to run GENIE experiments through a graphical user interface (GUI). It requires an experiment directory with a compiled instance of the model, which may or may not have parameters exposed (through the xml config file). While the model is running it will provide real-time visualisation of key 2d and 3d parameters on a graph and a globe. When directed to an ALADDIN run directory (the output from a particular run of a GENIE experiment - normally found as a subdirectory of the experiment directory) it will re-plot the data from the run for the purposes of simple visualisation of old runs. For compley data visualisation an application such as MatLab is recommended.

For more information, see the ALADDIN Documentation

Where we'd like to go with ALADDIN
Currently, ALADDIN works as standalone tool for running GENIE from a pre-compiled experiment directory, and as such is well suited for teaching and outreach purposes. In the future ALADDIN will also be able to fully configure, compile and launch GENIE, working with a copy of the GENIE source tree. It will read and plot sensible NetCDF output (it currently only works with ascii output files. It will be able to configure and launch mulitple instances of GENIE on remote computing resources such as the national grid service, or produce genie experiment directories ready to be copied to your local HPC resource and launched through the queueing system of your (or more likely your sysadmins) choice.