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Santis

The vCluster santis is dedicated to Climate and Weather applications. It includes the following:

  • EXCLAIM : Project for ICON-based km-scale climate simulations
  • Projects by C2SM community members
  • User lab projects in climate and weather domains

User Environments (uenvs)

uenv Description
icon/25.2:v3 Build and run ICON
climtools/25.2:v1 Pre- and post-processing tools

You can find the most important commands when working with uenvs on the CSCS Docs pages .

climtools

The climtools uenv provides a set of CLI tools and GUI tools frequently used in climate and weather workflows, including cdo, ncview, ncdump and others. For more information consider the corresponding Spack spec .

It is recommended that the climtools uenv is loaded with the --view=climtools argument to instantly access all of the tools that are shipped with this uenv:

uenv start climtools/25.2:v1 --view=climtools

The software is now available, e.g.:

which cdo
# /user-environment/env/netcdf/bin/cdo

Pre-release uenvs

User environments that are not (yet) part of the official CSCS uenv registry can be found in the following folder:

/capstor/store/cscs/userlab/cws01/uenvs
The README file there provides information about these images.

SLURM Partitions

SLURM partition Default wall time Max. wall time Limitations
normal 01:00:00 24:00:00 -
debug 00:30:00 00:30:00 Single node
xfer 06:00:00 24:00:00 Single node