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distribution of Linux for wrf

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Hi

What is the best distribution of Linux for installing and running wrf model?

Thanks,
 
Hello,
I don't know which one is the best, but at least I know the distribution that works for sure : Ubuntu 22.
The GNU compiler generates faster binaries than previous compiler versions, and you get all the basic system libraries needed by WRF.
 
alainF said:
Hello,
I don't know which one is the best, but at least I know the distribution that works for sure : Ubuntu 22.
The GNU compiler generates faster binaries than previous compiler versions, and you get all the basic system libraries needed by WRF.
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Thank you for your response,
 
mahboobeh said:
Thank you for your response,
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Also if you can use intel compilers they are a little faster then GNU. At least in my experience. Just takes a little longer to install WRF then GNU
 
Whatheway said:
Also if you can use intel compilers they are a little faster then GNU. At least in my experience. Just takes a little longer to install WRF then GNU
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Thank you. Do you recommend which distribution of linux like centos, rocky , Alma ,debian, ubuntu or suse is better for WRF model?
 
mahboobeh said:
Thank you. Do you recommend which distribution of linux like centos, rocky , Alma ,debian, ubuntu or suse is better for WRF model?
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Personally I prefer Ubuntu, I know the tutorials that NCAR has I believe are using Ubuntu.
 
Whatheway said:
Personally I prefer Ubuntu, I know the tutorials that NCAR has I believe are using Ubuntu.
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Thank you. I didn't have any experience with Ubuntu. I used to work with Centos for running wrf ,and because of centos doesn't have any update, I am going to upgrade to another distribution of linux. so do you recommend to change Centos to Ubuntu?
 
mahboobeh said:
Thank you. I didn't have any experience with Ubuntu. I used to work with Centos for running wrf ,and because of centos doesn't have any update, I am going to upgrade to another distribution of linux. so do you recommend to change Centos to Ubuntu?
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Rocky Linux 9.0 Available Now - Rocky Linux

Rocky Linux is an open enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux.
rockylinux.org rockylinux.org

If you are use to centos and want to use the commands you are familiar with then I would use Rocky Linux 9.

If you don't mind learning new commands then Ubuntu is fine too.

Really is up to you.
 
mahboobeh said:
Thank you. Do you recommend which distribution of linux like centos, rocky , Alma ,debian, ubuntu or suse is better for WRF model?
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Alma Linux is recommended if you are using CentOS. I have updated my system to Alma Linux from CentOS. They are the same in core.
 
Basic requirements for WRF are listed below:

Generally, a UNIX-like OS is needed
• Linux, *BSD, macOS, AIX, etc.

Libraries
• MPI (OpenMPI, MPICH, etc.)
• zlib
• HDF5
• NetCDF4 (C + Fortran)

A POSIX shell and the usual programs:
• GNUMake,grep,awk,sed,cat,ranlib/libtool,etc.
 
Ming Chen said:
Basic requirements for WRF are listed below:

Generally, a UNIX-like OS is needed
• Linux, *BSD, macOS, AIX, etc.

Libraries
• MPI (OpenMPI, MPICH, etc.)
• zlib
• HDF5
• NetCDF4 (C + Fortran)

A POSIX shell and the usual programs:
• GNUMake,grep,awk,sed,cat,ranlib/libtool,etc.
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Thanks Ming！ And is there a User Guide about WRF-V4.5 ？
 
Ming Chen said:
Basic requirements for WRF are listed below:

Generally, a UNIX-like OS is needed
• Linux, *BSD, macOS, AIX, etc.

Libraries
• MPI (OpenMPI, MPICH, etc.)
• zlib
• HDF5
• NetCDF4 (C + Fortran)

A POSIX shell and the usual programs:
• GNUMake,grep,awk,sed,cat,ranlib/libtool,etc.
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Thanks, Is there any difference between Linux distributions for insatlling and running WRF?
 
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