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titleWhen?

The changes will take place on  22 May 2018 1110:00 - 1110:30 UTC

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titleWhat platforms are affected?

All user platforms at the centre will see their default additional software stack updated:

  • All clusters in our High Performance Computing Facility, mainly CCA and CCB
  • ECGATE
  • Linux Clusters
  • Linux Desktops

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Highlights

Software stack ready for

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next operational IFS cycle

With the upcoming Implementation of IFS cycle 45r1, this set of defaults is ready to handle the data produced, including all the new parameters introduced  in this cycle

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Metview 5 will benefit from the new features of Magics 3,  plus interesting features such as a new interactive layer management, per-colour transparency and FLEXPART support, among others. 

See the Magics and Metview latest news for a more detailed list of changes.

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CodesUI first stable release

CodesUI is an interactive graphical application built on ecCodes to inspect GRIB and BUFR messages, that has now reached the first public release.

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The default versions for other third party software and libraries have historically diverged in the different platforms at the centre. We will take this opportunity to converge our defaults to the same versions across all those platforms, so we can offer a more consistent environment and user experience. Amongst the affected packages we can find popular tools and libraries like Python, R,  cdo or netCDF 4. See below for the complete list.

How to use the new versions for testing BEFORE the update

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languagebash
module swap metview/may18
module load Magics/may18
module swap eccodes/may18 
module swap python/may18

How to revert to the old versions in case of problems AFTER the

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updateUsers that experience problems with the new default software packages after the update of 10 May will be able to revert to the old default versions. These can be selected with the commands:

Code Block
languagebash
module swap metview/old
module load Magics/old
module swap eccodes/old 
module swap python/old

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This table summarises the changes in the version of the different packages:



Note

ecCodes is now the official ECMWF encoder and decoder for GRIB and BUFR formats. It superseds supersedes GRIB-API, for the GRIB format, and EMOSLIB, for the BUFR. If you still use any of those, we encourage you to migrate to ecCodes.

PackageDefault versionRelease notesDownload page
BeforeAfter
EMOSLIB4.5.24.5.5History of EMOSLIB changesEMOSLIB Releases
GRIB-API1.24.01.26.1

Latest news

GRIB-API Releases

Please see the Release notes for full details of the changes implemented in each package.

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Note

Some of the versions in this list may already be the default for a specific package on a certain platform, so no changes will be made in those cases. After the update, all platforms will have the same defaults for all these packages.

PackageNext defaultNotes
boost1.61.0http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_61_0.html
cdo1.8.2

With Grib, netcdf 4, hdf5 and Magics support

https://code.zmaw.de/news/349

cmake3.10.2https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.10/release/3.10.html
forge18.1.3https://developer.arm.com/products/software-development-tools/hpc/downloads/download-arm-forge
gdal2.1.1https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.1.1-News
geos3.5.0https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/browser/tags/3.6.0/NEWS
git2.16.2https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/Documentation/RelNotes
gsl2.2.1http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gsl.git/tree/NEWS
hdf4.2.12https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF/releases/HDF4.2.12/src/hdf-4.2.12-RELEASE.txt
hdf51.8.17https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/ReleaseFiles/hdf5-1.8.17-RELEASE.txt
intel17.0.3https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-parallel-studio-xe-2017-update-3-readme
nag24

A number of  a number of routines in the "G05 – 
Random Number Generators" chapter have been withdrawn.

https://www.nag.co.uk/numeric/fl/nagdoc_fl24/html/GENINT/replace.html

ncl6.4.0http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/prev_releases.shtml
nco4.6.7http://nco.sourceforge.net/ANNOUNCE
netcdf44.4.1http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/entry/netcdf-4-4-1
proj44.9.2https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4/blob/4.9.2/ChangeLog
python2.7.12-01

More up-to-date extra python modules

MKL used for linear algebra in numpy and scipy

https://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/v2.7.12/Misc/NEWS

python33.6.5-01https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html
R3.3.1

More up-to-date extra R packages

MKL used for all linear algebra operations

https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html

udunits2.2.17https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/changelog/udunits/2.2.17/log.html