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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
Helene        Seroussi

Email: eric.larour@jpl.nasa.gov

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License.

ISSM is distributed under the GNU General Public License.  It is free 
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU 
General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either 
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.  A copy of 
this license is included in the LICENSE file, and is also available online 
from http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.  Also refer to the COPYRIGHT file 
for important U.S. Government legal notices.

The ISSM distribution contains libraries which are available separately
under compatible licensing terms.  In particular, many of the libraries
in methods and packages are available separately under the GNU General 
Public License (GPL) or Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

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Overview.

More to come

Refer to http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ISSM/software.html for additional 
information.

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Distribution.

The directories contained in this distribution include:

examples            Example problems 

packages            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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