<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear SciServer User</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is a quick mail to inform you that the compute images on the SciServer have been updated today.</div><div class="">You will find the new software when you start a new compute container, your existing containers will not change.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The most obvious difference you should see is that the compute interface now defaults to Jupyter Lab instead of Jupyter Notebook.</div><div class="">I believe this provides a more pleasant user experience, but if you prefer the old notebook layout you can launch it under ‘Help’ -> ‘Launch Classic Notebook'</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In addition package managers and their included software have been upgraded and a few new software packages have been added:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Sciserver<br class=""> * R 4.1.2. (a issue where the Kernel would crash has been fixed) <br class=""> * Libraries: bit64, data.table, essentials, httr, jpeg, jsonlite, ProFound, <br class=""> * Full Conda (2021.05) <br class=""> * Astronomical software: Gnuastro, Sextractor, Stilts<br class=""> * Astronomical python modules: aimfast, colossus, Corrfunc, dustmaps, extinction, gatspy, HCIplot, hmf, Kapteyn, nway, photutils, PyAstronomy, pycf3, pyimfit, reproject, scikit-image, sep, sfdmap, speclite, specutils<br class=""> * Data format interfaces: asdf, h5py, parquet, pytables, pds4-tools <br class=""> * Machine learning: TensorFlow, pytorch, scikit-learn<br class=""> * Archive interfaces: Astroquery, NOAOdatalab, PyVo<br class=""> * HEALpix/coverage modules: drizzlib, healpy, healsparse, mhealpy, mocpy, pymangle, pymoc <br class=""> * Plotting/Visualisation: astrowidgets, ipyaladin, ipympl, jdaviz, nodejs, plotly, pyESASky, pywwt, seaborn<br class=""> * Further modules/tools: argcomplete, beautifulsoup4, chest, dill, DyND, handcalcs, pyarrow, pymc, requests, supersmoother, unittest2 <br class=""> * Statistical tools: Cuba, emcee, MultiNest<br class=""> * JuPyteR enhancements: import-ipynb, jupyter_contrib_nbextensions, RISE, sidecar<br class="">* HETDEX<br class=""> * adds the HETDEX_API module<br class="">* HEASARC<br class=""> * adds the HEASoft software package (6.29) + heasoftpy beta (0.1.22)<br class=""> * NICER estimator tool nibackgen3C5<br class="">* Xray<br class=""> * adds more X-ray astronomy related software: CIAO (4.13), Sixte (2.7.1) & Simput (2.5.0) , BXA<br class=""> * S-lang, ISIS & ISISscript<br class="">* eSASS <br class=""> * adds the eROSITA software package (eSASSusers_202114)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope this all works as well as it should, but if you experience any problems please let me know!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">cheers</div><div class="">Jonas</div><br class=""><div class="">
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