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Legacy software packages not available
As announced in Bologna - New Data Centre, a number of software packages and libraries that have been available in previous ECMWF platforms are not provided:
Some of the existing software packages and services installed on our HPC systems, Linux servers and desktop systems in Reading have not been ported on the new platforms in Bologna.
Software/Service | Description | Current Status | Installed in Bologna | To be replaced by | Comment |
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GRIBEX | GRIB decoder and encoder | Decommissioned | ecCodes | ||
GRIB-API | GRIB decoder and encoder | Deprecated | ecCodes | ecCodes is the default GRIB software loaded on ECMWF's systems. GRIB-API support is being discontinued at the end of 2018 | |
BUFRDC | BUFR decoder and encoder | In use | ecCodes | BUFRDC will be deprecated in Bologna. We recommend users to use ecCodes instead. | |
SMS | Supervisor Monitor Scheduler | In use | ecflow | Step by step example of an SMS suite migration to ecFlow. | |
EMOSLIB | Interpolation software | In use | MIR | ||
metview3 | Meteorological workstation application | Deprecated | metview (4 or 5) | metview3 is only installed on ecgate. | |
Dissemination requirements | Web interface to build the dissemination requirements | In use | New interface | ||
ProdGen | Products generation (for dissemination), based on EMOSLIB | In use | PGEN, based on MIR | ||
ECMWF Metpy | Python OO layer on eccodes | In use | ecmp Metview/Python |
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ecflowview | Graphical User Interface to ecflow | In use | ecflowUI |
As usually happens when we change HPC system or Linux servers, we will also discontinue some older versions of the remaining software packages installed, e.g. ecCodes, metview, etc Excerpt Include