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Package management of the analysis software that LCLS maintains for users is being transitions transitioned to conda, from RPM's. This software includes psana (the software LCLS develops for working with experiment data), hdf5, openmpi, and many python packages such as numpy, scipy, ipython and scikit-beam. Advantages of this transition include

• easier for LCLS to integrate and update new software for users
• easier for users to customize their own environments with psana
• easier for offsite users to install psana

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Release Notes

Similar to the Pre-Conda Release Notes, we maintain release notes on the conda environment here:

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