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A new version of E3SM-Unified is available: 1.8.0. E3SM-Unified is a combination conda and spack environment that includes a large amount of analysis software that is useful for E3SM users. The new version includes updates to E3SM-Diags, e3sm_to_cmip, MPAS-Analysis, MOAB, NCO, xcdat, zppy, zstash and many more packages.
New and improved in 1.8.0
E3SM Diags: Adds MERRA2 aerosol data for AOD diagnostics, Aerosol Budget Tables (set name: "aerosol_budget", and an example for running with zppy. Other changes include fixing a matplotlib rotation bug and removing cdtime as a dependency. More updates can be found in the v2.8.0 Release Notes.
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zstash: zstash 1.3.0 adds an option to retry hsi get if it is unsuccessful. It also optimizes Globus transfers. More updates can be found in the v1.3.0 Release Notes.
Activation
As in previous versions, you can access the environment as usual by sourcing an activation script:
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source /global/common/software/e3sm/anaconda_envs/load_latest_e3sm_unified_pm-cpu.sh
Details
After 5 weeks of testing, the new version has been deployed on most machines: Acme1, Andes, Anvil, Chrysalis, Compy, Cori-Haswell, and Perlmutter. We have dropped support for Badger, Cooley and Cori-KNL in this release.
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The ILAMB package is also available only on compute nodes because it, too, is built with the system MPI.
Next version
Testing of the next version (1.9.0) is planned to begin in early June 2023 and deployment is expected in early July. To request packages and versions to include, make a comment on Next Version.
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