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ISSM:
Ice Sheet System Modeling: a framework for modeling ice flow on ice sheet/ice shelf
systems using Finite Elemenent Analysis, and parallel technologies.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Eric          Larour (Project Lead)
Mathieu       Morlighem (Anisotropic Meshing, Control Methods)
Helene        Seroussi (Coupling 2D-3D, Multi-model, full-Stokes)

Email: eric.larour@jpl.nasa.gov

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License.

ISSM is California Institute of Technology Copyright.

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Overview.

More to come

Refer to http://issm.jpl.nasa.gov/ for additional information.

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Distribution.

The directories contained in this distribution include:

examples            Example problems 

externalpackages    Other libraries 

m4                  m4 macros used for supporting autoconf.

doc                 The Users, Reference, and Developers Manuals are 
                    maintained here.  Other references are available from
                    the ISSM Web site (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ISSM).

src                 The main source code repository for the ISSM system.

test                Files for regression and unit testing of the ISSM system.

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Installation.

The installation procedure uses a standard GNU installation based on autoconf.
The basic steps are to invoke 'configure' to generate Makefiles for your 
particular system and then invoke 'make' to compile the sources.  See the 
INSTALL file for detailed instructions.

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