A list of configuration options should appear. Each option combines an operating system, a compiler type, and a parallelism option. Since the configuration script doesn’t check which compilers are actually installed on your system, be sure to select only among the options that you have available to you. The available parallelism options are single-processor (serial), shared-memory parallel (smpar), distributed-memory parallel (dmpar), and distributed-memory with shared-memory parallel (sm+dm). However, shared-memory (smpar and sm+dm) options are not supported as of WRFDA Version 3.7, so we do not recommend selecting any of these options.
For example, on a Linux machine such as NCAR’s Yellowstone, the above steps will look similar to the following: