4.16.3. Running FAST.Farm

As FAST.Farm is a module of OpenFAST, the process of downloading, compiling, and running FAST.Farm is the same as that for OpenFAST. Such instructions are available in the Installing OpenFAST documentation.

Note

To improve the speed of OpenFAST compiled with FAST.Farm enabled, the user may wish to compile in single precision with OpenMP. To do so, add the -DDOUBLE_PRECISION:BOOL=OFF -DOPENMP=ON options with CMake.

Note

Checkpoint-restart capability has not yet been implemented within FAST.Farm.