/* <optional_comment>

 

<IP> <name> <port> <CPUs> <speed> <RAM MB> <Arch> <OS>

 

e.g. for a Thinkpad T23 laptop,

 

/* Kukla--1.13 GHz PIII

 

127.0.0.1 localhost 1066 1 1.0 768 X86 OS/2 4.5

 

The port number is used for FIDO supervisory control, i.e. if this

 

host is supervising N other hosts, those N connect to the supervisor

 

using this port number. This port can be anything that doesn’t

 

conflict with another service on the same cluster, but the unofficial

 

"well-known" port for POEMS is 1066. All hosts can use the same

 

port number.

 

NB: Hosts are identified by their hostname (as specified by the

 

$HOSTNAME environment variable, rather than by IP address. This

 

makes it possible to test cluster simulations on a single host by adding

 

multiple names for the same host in the hostfile, and specifying different

 

aliases in different SUBDOMAIN statements in the parameters file.

 

Cluster script fidossl sets the HOSTNAME variable for each fido instance,

 

which means that the host’s predefined hostname is not used.

MACDEF

Define a user macro. Macros are parametrized groups of POEMS

 

statements, as opposed to functions, which compute numeric values.

 

Macros are defined and expanded much like C preprocessor macros,

 

except for the MACDEF and MACRO keywords. A macro

 

definition must consist of a single logical line (i.e. if it spans more

 

than one line in the source file, line continuation characters must be

 

used to concatenate them into one logical line). Semicolons must be

 

used to separate individual POEMS statements within the logical line.

 

Both numeric and string values can be passed as macro parameters.

 

Macros do not have local variables other than their pass parameters-

 

-other symbolic names will have their normal meaning from the

 

local context at the time of macro expansion. Macro parameter

 

names are dummy variables and will not collide with variables of

 

the same name in the local context--context variables with the same

 

name as the dummy will be inaccessible.

 

Macros are allowed to contain macros, i.e. the MACRO statement is

 

permitted inside a MACDEF. (This is a powerful and dangerous

 

feature.) Macro recursion is not supported. NB: Since POEMS

 

comments always extend to the end of the current line, any

 

comments inside a macro definition must be at the end of a lexical

 

line, following the line continuation character, as shown below.

 

Syntax: MACDEF name(arg1, ..., argN) <logical line of code>

 

Example: This macro plots field files over a fixed volume, with a

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