February 4, 2021 Software Open Access

gwastro/pycbc: PyCBC Release 1.17.1

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; dfinstad; Francesco Pannarale; Thomas Massinger; Sumit Kumar; Márton Tápai; Leo Singer; Sebastian Khan; Stephen Fairhurst; Alex Nielsen; Shashwat Singh; shasvath; Bhooshan Uday Varsha Gadre

This is the v1.17.1 release of PyCBC.

• updates to relative likelihood model
• avoid numpy 1.20.0 which causes segfaults in lalsuite

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:v1.17.1

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-v1.17.1/bin/activate

A singularity container is available at /cvmfs/singularity.opensciencegrid.org/pycbc/pycbc-el7:v1.17.1 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:v1.17.1