<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="">Dear MPE SciServer Users<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would like to announce that I just have released a set of new Compute Images for the SciServer. </div><div class="">This means that every _new_ compute container you start from now on has a updated collection of software installed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- The main change to the previous images is that the new baseline operating system is Ubuntu 20.04 instead of Ubuntu 18.</div><div class="">- The installed Python version has been updated to 3.9 and R to version 4.2.1</div><div class="">- The scientific python module collections have been updated to Anaconda 2022.10 and SciPy 1.9 respectively.</div><div class="">- A large number of additional modules and software has been installed. You can see a partial list in the Readme file in </div><div class=""> <a href="https://sciserver.mpe.mpg.de/dashboard/files/datavolumes/4" class="">https://sciserver.mpe.mpg.de/dashboard/files/datavolumes/4</a></div><div class=""> and can see all installed python modules and their version with "conda list”</div><div class="">- In the Xray images the HE software collections have been updated to HEASoft <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">6.31.1, CIAO 4.15, eSASS 20211214.0.5.</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">- In addition the CIAO installation has been changed to be part of a conda environment instead of a separate software installation.</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> The Xray and eSASS images have additional buttons buttons and command line instructions to run with the CIAO kernel. </span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> Please note that this environment does not come with all the same modules installed as the base environment.</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">- Lastly there is now a a easier way to modify your environment and have it stick between containers: In a interactive shell the bash setup will attempt to source the file </span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> Storage/[user]/persistent/bashrc if it exists. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">So you can add your preferred shell configuration to that file. </span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> </span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">I hope you will find everything working as intended. If you encounter any issues, please let me know - </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">It is at times challenging to get all the various software installations to play nicely with each other.</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Kind regards</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Jonas</span></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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