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UFS Weather Model Repository Develop Branch's Tracker for Populated Timestamped Datasets

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Introduction:

Currently, the NOAA development teams' code managers are maintaining their datasets manually via regularly checking if a UFS timestamp dataset is being revised, committed and pushed to the UFS-WM development branch repository to maintain datasets that will only support the latest two-months of development UFS-WM code. There are times when UFS timestamp datasets are unused as they exceed the latest two-months of development UFS-WM code window and are left on-prem. While the EPIC team continues to work in parallel with the NOAA development teams' devleopment in UFS-WM code, the UFS data tracker bot will be able to support the data management of only storing datasets supporting the latest two months of development UFS-WM code within its cloud data storage via automatically tracking of the revisions that are made against the UFS timestamp datasets.

Purpose:

The purpose of this script is to detect, track, and populate the revisions of the timestamp datasets made to the UFS-WM development branch. It is part of the Data Tracker Bot in Jenkins and will later be integrated with another script which will perform the 2 months window shift of datasets to maintain the NOAA development teams' code managers current practice stored and fulfill the stored data requirements.

Capabilities:

This script will be able to perform the following actions:

  • Extract single file daily & parse
  • Client makes a direct request for rt.sh from GitHub
  • rt.sh is read, preprocessed & extracts the timestamps of the relevant UFS datasets which has been pushed on GitHub.
  • Generates a file containing the datasets' timestamps
  • Program will compare the last log file with the most recent file containing the datasets' timestamps.

Future Capabilities: Will be integrated with another script, which will perform the 2 months window shift of datasets to maintain the NOAA development teams' code managers current practice and fulfill the stored data requirements.

Table of Contents

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.9

Dataset

  • N/A

Quick Start

  • For demonstration purposes, refer to 'rt_revision_tracker_scripts_demo.ipynb'

Environment Setup

  • Install miniconda on your machine. Note: Miniconda is a smaller version of Anaconda that only includes conda along with a small set of necessary and useful packages. With Miniconda, you can install only what you need, without all the extra packages that Anaconda comes packaged with: Download latest Miniconda (e.g. 3.9 version):

  • Check integrity downloaded file with SHA-256:

    • sha256sum Miniconda3-py39_4.9.2-Linux-x86_64.sh

Reference SHA256 hash in following link: https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html

  • Install Miniconda in Linux:

    • bash Miniconda3-py39_4.9.2-Linux-x86_64.sh
  • Next, Miniconda installer will prompt where do you want to install Miniconda. Press ENTER to accept the default install location i.e. your $HOME directory. If you don't want to install in the default location, press CTRL+C to cancel the installation or mention an alternate installation directory. If you've chosen the default location, the installer will display “PREFIX=/var/home//miniconda3” and continue the installation.

  • For installation to take into effect, run the following command:

source ~/.bashrc

  • Next, you will see the prefix (base) in front of your terminal/shell prompt. Indicating the conda's base environment is activated. Once you have conda installed on your machine, perform the following to create a conda environment:

    • To create a new environment (if a YAML file is not provided)

      • conda create -n [Name of your conda environment you wish to create]

(OR)

* To ensure you are running Python 3.9:

    * conda create -n myenv Python=3.9

(OR)

  • To create a new environment from an existing YAML file (if a YAML file is provided):

    • conda env create -f environment.yml

*Note: A .yml file is a text file that contains a list of dependencies, which channels a list for installing dependencies for the given conda environment. For the code to utilize the dependencies, you will need to be in the directory where the environment.yml file lives.

Activate the new environment via:

conda activate [Name of your conda environment you wish to activate]

  • Verify that the new environment was installed correctly via:

    • conda info --env

*Note:

  • From this point on, must activate conda environment prior to .py script(s) or jupyter notebooks execution using the following command: conda activate
    • To deactivate a conda environment:
      • conda deactivate

Link Home Directory to Dataset Location on RDHPCS Platform

  • Unfortunately, there is no way to navigate to the "/work/" filesystem from within the Jupyter interface when working on the remote server, Orion. The best way to workaround is to create a symbolic link in your home folder that will take you to the /work/ filesystem. Run the following command from a linux terminal on Orion to create the link:

    • ln -s /work /home/[Your user account name]/work
  • Now, when you navigate to the /home/[Your user account name]/work directory in Jupyter, it will take you to the /work folder. Allowing you to obtain any data residing within the /work filesystem that you have permission to access from Jupyter. This same procedure will work for any filesystem available from the root directory.

*Note: On Orion, user must sym link from their home directory to the main directory containing the datasets of interest.

Open & Run Application on Jupyter Notebook

  • Open OnDemand has a built-in file explorer and file transfer application available directly from its dashboard via:

  • In the Open OnDemand Interface, select Interactive Apps > Jupyter Notbook

Additonal Information

To create a .yml file, execute the following commands:

  • Activate the environment to export:

    • conda activate myenv
  • Export your active environment to a new file:

    • conda env export > [ENVIRONMENT FILENAME].yml

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What's Included

Within the download, you will find the following directories and files:

  • Demo:

    rt_revision_tracker_scripts_demo.ipynb

  • Scripts:

    rt_revision_tracker.py rt_tracker_populate.py rt_tracker_reset.py

  • List of Dependencies:

    git_env.yml

Version:

  • Draft as of 03/14/24

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