January 1, 2020 Software Open Access

gwastro/pycbc v1.15.3

Alex Nitz; Ian Harry; Duncan Brown; Christopher M. Biwer; Josh Willis; Tito Dal Canton; Collin Capano; Larne Pekowsky; Thomas Dent; Andrew R. Williamson; Soumi De; Gareth Davies; Miriam Cabero; Duncan Macleod; Bernd Machenschalk; Steven Reyes; Prayush Kumar; Thomas Massinger; Francesco Pannarale; dfinstad; Márton Tápai; Stephen Fairhurst; Sebastian Khan; Leo Singer; Alex Nielsen; Sumit Kumar; shasvath; idorrington92; Hunter Gabbard; Bhooshan Uday Varsha Gadre

This is the v1.15.3 release of PyCBC.

This is a bugfix release over v1.15.2. It incorporates a fix to the strain reading utilities which cased failures in pycbc inference and similar codes.

A Docker container for this release is available from the pycbc/pycbc-el7 repository on Docker Hub and can be downloaded using the command:

docker pull pycbc/pycbc-el7:v1.15.3

On a machine with CVMFS installed, a pre-built virtual environment is available for Red Hat 7 compatible operating systems by running the command:

source /cvmfs/oasis.opensciencegrid.org/ligo/sw/pycbc/x86_64_rhel_7/virtualenv/pycbc-v1.15.3/bin/activate

A singularity container is available at /cvmfs/singularity.opensciencegrid.org/pycbc/pycbc-el7:v1.15.3 which can be started with the command:

singularity shell --home  ${HOME}:/srv --pwd /srv --bind /cvmfs --contain --ipc --pid /cvmfs/singularity.opensciencegrid.org/pycbc/pycbc-el7\:v1.15.3