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How to tell what versions of the individual packages are in the toolbox

$ module help ecmwf-toolbox/2020.10.1.2

------------------------------------------------------------- Module Specific Help for "ecmwf-toolbox/2020.10.1.2" -------------------------------------------------------------
The ECMWF toolbox includes all the software packages and libraries to deal with ECMWF data, such as ecCodes, Magics or Metview. 
For more information on the individual packages inside visit https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/SUP
-- [codes_ui] (1.4.0)
-- [ecmwf-toolbox] (2020.10.1.2) [6a5c9e5]
-- [eccodes] (2.19.1) [929aee7]
-- [bufrdc_tables] (4.1.7) [aff0715]
-- [eckit] (1.13.2) [2732c96]
-- OpenSSL version 1.1.1c -- libs [/usr/lib64/libssl.so /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so] incs [/usr/include]
-- [fckit] (0.9.0) [9cd993a]
-- [odc] (1.1.1) [31b7b8b]
-- [metkit] (1.6.1) [f636381]
-- [odb] (1.1.0) [d4a3156]
-- [odb_tools] (1.1.0) [2f1f7b5]
-- [atlas] (0.22.1) [e55e9c7]
-- [mir] (1.7.1) [98f4b50]
-- [magics] (4.5.1) [bc89653]
-- [mars_client] (6.29.1) [b10a806]
-- [metview] (5.10.1) [e0d2161]
-- system : [at1-118.bullx] [Linux-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64] [linux.64]

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module load python3 ecmwf-toolbox

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This is still under development

You may use one of the predefined conda environments containing ECMWF packages. You can see which ones are available withYou may create your own conda virtual environment and install the desired ECMWF tools there. By default, you would benefit from the predefined ECMWF conda channels containing ECMWF packages built specifically for our HPCF. For example, to create a conda environment with metview:

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module load conda conda env list

And the activate your desired one:

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conda activate ecmwf-2021.01create -n myenv metview

See HPC2020: Python support for more details.

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
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 (version 5 only)	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	ecmp is a reduced version of the current ECMWF's Metpy giving the package a different name; porting to ecmp consists in changing import commands only migrating to Metview/Python would require more work but it is more future-proof (Python3)
ecflowview	Graphical User Interface to ecflow	In use		ecflowUI
Perforce	Version control system	Deprecated		Git

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