Version 1.5.0
We are pleased to announce the release of V1.5.0 of spack-stack.
The spack-stack package is a collaborative effort between the NOAA Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), the UCAR Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA), and the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC). spack-stack is designed to support the various applications of the supporting agencies such as the Unified Forecast System (UFS) or the Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration (JEDI).
Documentation for installing and using spack-stack can be found here: https://spack-stack.readthedocs.io/en/1.5.0/
New This Release
- Support for MSU Hercules, NOAA RDHPCS Gaea C5, NCAR-Wyoming Derecho
- Major update from spack authoritative repository to
0.21.0.dev0
- Use of C++-17 in
boost
and in several new versions of ECMWF libraries (eckit
,fckit
,ecmwf-atlas
, ...) - The Python version used by downstream applications of spack-stack is now built by spack (no longer an external package) for most platforms
- Additional CI tests, in particular on macOS M1
- Utility to check for duplicates after concretization
- Utility to check user
umask
when creating environments - Fixed several bugs in
spack stack setup-meta-modules
- Numerous version updates and bug fixes for packages in the unified environment, including a critical bug fix to
scotch
(version 7.0.4) and an update ofNCEPLIBS-bufr
to 12.0.0 - Additional packages for working with cloud resources (
awscli
,globus-cli
) - Static build options for packages required by the UFS Weather Model for installation on NCO's operational systems