MetOfficeUsage

Using Fab at the Met Office

There are a number of ways to use Fab on Met Office systems.

Environment Modules

Modules for releases are available in the "extra software" collection. If you are not already using these you will have to make sure they are available. See the Science IT sharepoint site.

In order to use Fab you will need to load the module and its prerequisites:

module load python/3.7.0 support/fparser/0.0.16/python/3.7.0 fab/0.11.0/python/3.7.0

If you are building an LFRic project you will already have loaded an LFRic development environment module, in which case you need only load Fab:

module load environment/lfric/<compiler>/<version>
module load fab/0.11.0/python/3.7.0

The developer environment already includes Python and fParser.

Conda

I hear rumours of a Conda environment but this is only for Fab. You will still need to load the LFRic development environment modules and mixing Conda and environment modules like this may cause problems. Particularly since Both want to control Python.