NRI climate conda environments: information to users

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This topic will be used to send information to users of the climate conda environments supported by ACCESS-NRI. These environments were formerly known as “hh5 conda environments” and managed by the CLEX CMS team.

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For any question or request about the NRI climate conda environments, open a new topic and use the tags help and climate-conda-enviro.

To find all posts about the NRI climate conda environments, search for the #climate-conda-enviro tag.

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Message sent to hh5 users on 2/12/2024

Dear hh5 conda users,

With the conclusion of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX), support for the hh5 conda environments is transitioning to ACCESS-NRI.

What this means for users:

  • No immediate change to how you use or access the current hh5 conda environments.

  • Questions or requests for new packages in the hh5 conda environments should now be made through the ACCESS-Hive Forum. However, please note that over the summer holiday period (with many staff on leave), new requests may be temporarily delayed.

  • Continuity for users is a priority - ACCESS-NRI will ensure any interruptions to research or changes to workflows are minimal. One-off modifications (e.g., module settings) may be required in the future, but any such change will be communicated well in advance.

  • More information and future updates can be found on the Forum.

These environments, developed and maintained by the CLEX CMS team, have proven very valuable to the community over the years. We applaud and thank the CMS team for implementing this very successful service and supporting it for the whole community.

Regards,

The ACCESS-NRI team

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A post was split to a new topic: Management of hh5 data storage

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I whole heartedly agree - This has been invaluable for me personally - Very Much Appreciated - Griff

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I’m confused about which conda environment we’re supposed to be using (also many others in COSIMA are too). The post above directs us to keep using hh5 conda. But posts here and here suggest that the version of Intake in hh5 is old and at least when generating new datastores we should use xp65 conda.
Is the recommendation to use xp65 for Intake datastore generation and then switch to hh5 for analysis?

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Hi @adele157,

Thank you for reaching out. Let me clarify the situation.

As communicated last year, ACCESS-NRI will not be updating the hh5 conda environments. However, to ensure that user workflows remain functional, the hh5 environments have not been discontinued.

Any updates to the intake catalog or the analysis3 software stack will only occur in the new xp65 conda environments. While these environments have not yet been officially released, they are available for testing. The xp65 environments cover approximately 90% of the packages that were previously available in hh5, so they should be suitable for most use cases.

I hope this clarifies things. Please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions or concerns.

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Thanks @rbeucher. So just to be clear: is the recommendation that everyone switches to xp65 now? Or should we keep using hh5 until there is an official release of xp65?

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The recommendation is to test xp65, especially if people want to use the new intake catalogues.

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