We are pleased to announce the release of V1.8.0 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), the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC), and the United States Naval Research Lab (NRL). spack-stack is designed to support the various applications of the supporting agencies such as the Unified Forecast System (UFS), the Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration (JEDI), and the Navy Environmental Prediction sysTem Using a Nonhydrostatic Engine (NEPTUNE).
Documentation for installing and using spack-stack can be found at https://spack-stack.readthedocs.io/en/1.8.0 and https://github.com/JCSDA/spack-stack/wiki/spack%E2%80%90stack%E2%80%901.8.0-release-documentation
New This Release
- Support for Intel oneAPI 2024 compilers (icx, icpx, ifort; experimental: icx, icpx, ifx); update of Intel classic compilers to last release 2023.2 on NOAA platforms
- Bug fixes for Intel classic compilers in spack core code (always pass flags to suppress deprecation warnings to fix meson build errors)
- Support for AMD AOCC version 4 compilers (experimental)
- Minimal mpas-jedi environment with Nvidia compilers (nvhpc)
- New NEPTUNE standalone environment
- Environments now support one principal compiler, but can use other compilers for specific packages (examples: Intel classic environment uses gcc to compile boost; Intel oneAPI environment uses gcc to compile bison)
- Use Intel MKL instead of Openblas in Intel classic/oneAPI environments on all non-NOAA platforms
- Update of Python from 3.10.8 to 3.11.7 and update of numerous Python packages
- Additional packages for unified environment: py-dask, py-xnrl, py-wxflow, command line utilities for eccodes, py-fortranformat, bufr_query
- New versions of [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
- Update to Rocky 8 for NOAA RDHPCS Hera, Jet, ParallelWorks
- Update to Rocky 9 for NOAA RDHPCS Orion
- Update of JEDI CI container builds
- New tier 1 platforms Atlantis, Gaea C6
- Update from spack develop as of May 2024
- Documentation updates: split documentation into readthedocs (https://spack-stack.readthedocs.io/en/latest) and a Wiki (https://github.com/JCSDA/spack-stack/wiki)