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E4S 25.11

14 Nov 21:45

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E4S 25.11 includes a number of improvements from the prior release

  • Many packages are from prior release have been updated with newer versions
  • Spack Core upgraded to latest official release, v1.0.2
  • Spack Packages upgraded to e4s-25.11 tag from September, 2025
  • GPU Framework versions upgraded
    • CUDA Toolkit upgraded to 12.9.0 for those packages that support it
    • ROCm upgraded to ROCm 6.4.3
    • OneAPI Toolkit upgraded to 2025.2
  • Upgrades to the Model Spack Environments
    • Ubuntu environment is now built using Ubuntu 24.04
    • Rocky 9.6 environments are now built
    • Python 3.12 is widely used for those packages that support it
  • New, content-addressable build cache containing the builds of all packages from the Model Spack environments is available for use with Spack at https://cache.e4s.io/25.11

E4S 25.06

06 Jun 14:37

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E4S 25.06 includes a number of improvements from the prior release

  • Many packages are from prior release have been updated with newer versions
  • CUDA Toolkit upgraded to 12.8.0 for those packages that support it
  • ROCm upgraded to ROCm 6.3.3
  • OneAPI Toolkit upgraded to 2025.1
  • New model environment for CUDA Blackwell GPU's has been added
  • New packages:
    • libceed
  • Build errors resolved for previously disabled packages:
    • bricks: arm64 and ppc64le build errors fixed
    • cp2k: +cuda build errors fixed on amd64 and arm64
    • lammps: +cuda build errors fixed on arm64
    • magma: +cuda build errors fixed on arm64
    • omega-h: +cuda build errors fixed on arm64
    • openfoam: %oneapi build error fixed
    • warpx: %oneapi build error fixed
  • New Spack build cache containing specs for model environments: https://cache.e4s.io/25.06

E4S 24.11

21 Jan 22:43

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E4S 24.11 includes a number of improvements from the prior quarterly release

  • Many packages are from prior release have been updated with newer versions
  • ROCm upgraded to ROCm 6.2.1
  • OneAPI Toolkit upgraded to 2024.2.1
  • New packages:
    • nwchem
    • wrf
    • chapel
    • fftx
    • warpx
    • geopm-runtime
  • ARM builds are now done using GNU 13 on Ubuntu 24
  • New Spack build cache containing specs for model environments: https://cache.e4s.io/24.11

E4S 24.05

06 May 19:07
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E4S 24.05 includes a number of improvements from the prior quarterly release

  • Many packages are from prior release have been updated with newer versions
  • CUDA upgraded from CUDA 11 to CUDA 12 in most places
  • ROCm upgraded from ROCm 5.4.3 to ROCm 5.7.1
  • GROMACS builds added for NVIDIA GPU
  • New packages:
    • py-deephyper
    • nek5000
    • nekbone
    • e4s-alc
    • e4s-cl
    • fpm
    • netcdf-fortran
  • Model environment OS upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04
  • New Spack build cache containing specs for model environments: https://cache.e4s.io/24.05

E4S 24.02

14 Feb 23:34

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E4S 24.02 includes a number of improvements from the prior quarterly release

  • Many packages are released with new versions
  • GROMACS molecular dynamics package has been added
  • CP2K quantum chemistry and solid state physics package has been added
  • Intel OneAPI MPI now used in model environment for Intel GPU
  • Intel OneAPI version upgraded to latest 2024 release
  • New Spack build cache containing specs for model environments https://cache.e4s.io/24.02

E4S 23.11

09 Nov 20:59
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E4S 23.11 includes a number of improvements from the prior quarterly release

  • Many packages are released with new versions
  • ExaGO for large-scale power grid optimization code is now included in E4S, with builds capable of using both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs
  • Improved support for Intel GPUs:
    • PETSc with SYCL support added
    • SLATE with SYCL support added
    • SUNDIALS SYCL-enabled build errors resolved
  • New Spack build cache containing specs for model environments https://cache.e4s.io/23.11

E4S 23.08

31 Aug 19:54

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E4S 23.08 includes a number of improvements from the prior quarterly release

  • Many packages are released with new versions
  • Improved support for NVIDIA Hopper GPU architecture
    • For ARM users: a number of packages have been added with support for NVIDIA Hopper architecture (cuda_arch=90)
    • A number of fixes for +cuda cuda_arch=90 packages for x86_64
  • Trilinos CPU version is increased to 14.4.0 where before it was 13.0.1
  • Libpressio CUDA build errors have been resolved
  • Improved ability to make use of binary cache with concretizer:reuse:true
  • Model environments designed to work with new series of base containers equipped with mpich
  • New Spack build cache containing specs for model environments https://cache.e4s.io/23.08
  • ROCm model environment contains example packages: configuration for using an externally installed ROCm stack