4 Customizing your Installation

You can customize and optimize your ADF package by changing or setting several environment variables, and/or use some input options. We advise you to test the effects of changing them for some of your typical calculations, and then setting the optimal values in the scripts that define the environment for your login shell. Don't forget to make sure that the changes you make will also apply for batch jobs, and for all nodes of a distributed computing system.

A complete list of environment variables used by the ADF package can be found at the end of this document. Here we will discuss a few which are particularly important.