[Jlab-scicomp-briefs] JLab Physics Software Libraries Rel 2.3 available

Thu Oct 25 13:31:04 EDT 2018

Dear JLab Farm Users,

A message from Mauri Ungaro, ungaro at jlab.org, and the Scientific Software Support Committee:

JLab Physics Software Libraries Release Announcement

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Production tag 2.3 of the JLab Physics Software Libraries is now available. It includes these updates:

- banks:         stays 1.4
- ccdb:           stays 1.06.02
- clhep:          2.3.4.5 > 2.4.0.4
- evio:            stays 5.1
- geant4:        4.10.03.p02 > 4.10.04.p02
- gemc:          2.6 > 2.7
- jana:            0.7.7p1 > 0.8.0
- mlibrary:      1.2 > 1.3
- qt:                5.9.1 to system defaults (currently 5.10.1 on most systems)
- root:             6.12.06 > 6.14.04
- scons build: 1.6 > 1.7
- xercesc:       3.2.0 > 3.2.2

The "softenv" scripts are available to setup the environment, replacing the deprecated production scripts.

Version 2.3 comes with the possibility of selecting a subset of the supported libraries by
listing them in a ~/.jlab_software user file. For example, for geant4 only support, that file would read:

   clhep geant4 qt xercesc

Version 2.3 re-introduce the system-qt default: users can use their existing qt installation. If users need to use the offline qt installer they can
still do so by setting the environment variable QT_VERSION.

A docker image build on CentOS 7.5 using tag 2.3 is available, see http://data.jlab.org/drupal for details.

The complete set of supported libraries is:

banks ccdb clhep evio geant4 gemc jana mlibrary mysql qt root scons xercesc

Instructions for the JLab interactive nodes ifarm1401 or ifarm1402
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To setup the environment and use tag 2.3:

Csh:

source /site/12gev_phys/softenv.csh 2.3

Bash:

source /site/12gev_phys/softenv.sh 2.3

For further details please visit the Physics Software Libraries documentation at http://data.jlab.org/drupal

On Oct 24, 2018, at 11:15 AM, Maurizio Ungaro <mauriannie at icloud.com<mailto:mauriannie at icloud.com>> wrote:

Hi Sandy,

Before sending the message below, which points to data.jlab.org<http://data.jlab.org/>… what happened to data.jlab.org<http://data.jlab.org/>?

Once that is restored, since version 2.3 is out and tested for a while, could you send the message below.

Also, welcome back from vacation. I saw some FB pictures, look like good times ;-)

Best,

Mauri

JLab Physics Software Libraries Release Announcement
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