April 17, 2020 Software Open Access

gwastro/pycbc: PyCBC Release v1.15.6

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

This is the v1.15.6 release of PyCBC.

This is an incremental improvement over v1.15.5, more functionality for the multi-detector workflow is added, a patch to the PSD variation is added to avoid time around autogated periods is not strongly upranked, steady improvements to the inference toolkit is also included.

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:v1.15.6

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-v1.15.6/bin/activate

A singularity container is available at /cvmfs/singularity.opensciencegrid.org/pycbc/pycbc-el7:v1.15.6 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\:v1.15.6