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PISM stable0.5 is released

See the stable version page to check out a copy of the PISM stable0.5 source code. If you have already checked out the prerelease version, just do ‘’ “git pull” ‘’ and then ‘’ “make install” ‘’ in your build directory. Send email to help@pism-docs.org for help with any version of PISM. See also slides introducing stable0.5 at the European PISM workshop, Hamburg, Germany, May 2012.

PISM stable0.4 is released

PISM version stable0.4 is available. See the stable version page to check out a copy of the source code or download an Ubuntu package. Send email to help@pism-docs.org for help with any version of PISM.

Parallel netCDF4 allows first Greenland simulation on a 1km grid
Parallel netCDF4 allows first Greenland simulation on a 1km grid

The upcoming stable 0.5 release supports parallel NetCDF4, thus avoiding the file size limitations of netCDF3. This allows for unprecedented grid resolutions.

1st European PISM Workshop in Hamburg, Germany, 21-22 May 2012

The European PISM (Parallel Ice Sheet Model) workshop will be held in Hamburg, Germany, from Monday, the May 21, 2012 (starting at noon), to Tuesday, May 22. Workshop announcement is available at

We have moved (and switched to PETSc 3.2)

As promised in an earlier news item, we have moved source code hosting from gna.org to github.com.