# Running scaling notebooks

**URL:** <https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/running-scaling-notebooks/5450>\
**Category:** Technical\
**Created:** [28 October 2025 03:43 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/running-scaling-notebooks/5450 "2025-10-28T03:43:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![JuliaN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@JuliaN](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/JuliaN)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2025 03:43 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/running-scaling-notebooks/5450/1 "2025-10-28T03:43:25Z")

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Hi, I’m trying to run one of the notebooks from the [scaling repository](https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-models-scaling/blob/2710dc35890a3edd578cb55c501d942bc4850958/accessom3_global_25km.ipynb), but I’m currently stuck in the installation of `esmf-trace`described in the 25km notebook. I created the virtual environment, activated the modules, and then tried to install. These are the errors I get:

```auto
(.venv) [jn8053@gadi-login-03 esmf-trace]$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Collecting pandas (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
  Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/c3/e2/00cacecafbab071c787019f00ad84ca3185952f6bb9bca9550ed83870d4d/pandas-1.1.5-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (9.5MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 9.5MB 148kB/s 
Collecting pyarrow (from -r requirements.txt (line 2))
  Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/38/c6/97a4133eea642155e7a73cb946d889cadc461a1e6b93f5627af9fdd7b3f3/pyarrow-6.0.1.tar.gz (770kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 778kB 1.1MB/s 
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/scratch/g40/jn8053/tmp/pip-build-dokez4g4/pyarrow/setup.py", line 39, in <module>
        from Cython.Distutils import build_ext as _build_ext
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Cython'
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /scratch/g40/jn8053/tmp/pip-build-dokez4g4/pyarrow/
You are using pip version 9.0.3, however version 25.3 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
(.venv) [jn8053@gadi-login-03 esmf-trace]$ pip install -e .
Obtaining file:///home/561/jn8053/esmf-trace
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/home/561/jn8053/esmf-trace/setup.py", line 3, in <module>
        import setuptools_scm
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools_scm'
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /home/561/jn8053/esmf-trace/
You are using pip version 9.0.3, however version 25.3 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

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**Author:** ![anton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/anton/32/1836_2.png) [@anton](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/anton)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2025 05:00 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/running-scaling-notebooks/5450/2 "2025-10-28T05:00:16Z")

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Hi Julia

pip 9.0.3 is very old

Could you try

```auto
module load python3/3.12.1

```

before running the install

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**Author:** ![RhaegarZeng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@RhaegarZeng](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/RhaegarZeng)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2025 05:05 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/running-scaling-notebooks/5450/3 "2025-10-28T05:05:20Z")

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**Author:** ![JuliaN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@JuliaN](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/JuliaN)\
**Post date:** [30 October 2025 04:09 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/running-scaling-notebooks/5450/4 "2025-10-30T04:09:11Z")

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Hey Anton, thanks, I don’t need to run these anymore so let’s close 🙂 (or delete post)

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**Author:** ![anton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/anton/32/1836_2.png) [@anton](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/anton)\
**Post date:** [30 October 2025 04:29 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/running-scaling-notebooks/5450/5 "2025-10-30T04:29:54Z")

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**Author:** ![anton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/anton/32/1836_2.png) [@anton](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/anton)\
**Post date:** [30 October 2025 04:30 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/running-scaling-notebooks/5450/6 "2025-10-30T04:30:35Z")

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I’ve made an issue to clarify in the instructions anyway 🙂

> <https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-models-scaling/issues/13>
>
> In https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-models-scaling/blob/2710dc35890a3edd578c…b55c501d942bc4850958/accessom3\_global\_25km.ipynb
> 
> The esmf trace install is missing a module load python3 ? (if that was intended? or was it intended to be run on ARE?)
> 
> \`\`\`
> Clone the repo
> 
> git clone https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/esmf-trace
> cd esmf-trace
> 
> Create & activate a virtual environment
> 
> python -m venv .venv
> . .venv/bin/activate
> 
> \`\`\`
> 
> from https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/running-scaling-notebooks/5450
> 
> ping @minghangli-uni