GLIMPSE-CE v2.2 Release! (GCAM & GCAM-USA, Win & Mac)

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GLIMPSE-CE (Community Edition) is a graphical user interface for GCAM. The new 2.2 release (including 2.2.1 bug-fix update) is located here: https://github.com/DLoughlin/GLIMPSE-CE/releases/.

This release includes full GLIMPSE-CE v2.2 packages for GCAM and GCAM-USA (for Win and Mac), as well as a stand-alone version of the GLIMPSE-CE ModelInterface (cross-platform). The zip file for the full Win package includes the Amazon Corretto Java Runtime Environment. The Mac version is packaged with Liberica JDK 8.

GLIMPSE-CE v2.2 updates versus v2.1 include:

• MAJOR: Integration of GCAM(-USA) 9.1
• Improvements to startup speed
• Bug fixes and improvements to look and feel of both the GLIMPSE-CE Scenario Builder and Model Interface
• Draft documentation, including tutorials, is accessible at https://github.com/DLoughlin/GLIMPSE-CE/blob/main/docs/contents.md
• Addition of new experimental, complex queries calculating market shares, emission rates, etc.
• Separate release zip files for Global GCAM and GCAM-USA
• Support for Mac platform

Contributors to this release include Dan Loughlin, Prabhat Hegde (Mac version), and Margaret and Kathleen Loughlin (documentation).

Please email Dan Loughlin at danloughlin@gmail.com to get on the GLIMPSE-CE mailing list for upcoming demos and trainings.

GLIMPSE-CE Scenario Builder supports activities such as constructing scenarios, executing and monitoring GCAM, debugging, and archiving:

GLIMPSE-CE New Scenario Component Creator allows users to develop their own policy representations in GCAM, including options such as pollutant caps and taxes, technology and fuel subsidies, market share constraints, and more.

GLIMPSE-CE Model Interface builds upon the standard ModelInterface by adding improved customizable graphics, differencing between scenarios, table filtering, maps, and Sankey diagrams.

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GLIMPSE-CE v2.1 updates since v2.0 include:

• Improvements to stability and the user experience
• Improved tracking of the GCAM execution process and movement of terminal windows to a console
• Significant speed improvements, including startup and in features such as mapping
• Enhancements to chart customization and a new type of chart: stacked percentages
• Clipboard and export usability enhancements
• On-the-fly updates to ScenarioBuilder and ModelInterface font sizes
• Improved preferences management

GLIMPSE-CE v2.0 updates since v1.0 include:

ScenarioBuilder:

• New material-style look-and-feel
• Support for pasting values from clipboard into New Scenario Component Creator table
• Improved differencing feature for comparing the configuration files of two scenarios
• Tracking GCAM queue completion process
• Stop button for terminating GCAM execution from the Graphical User Interface
• Integrated console for capturing output from GLIMPSE, GCAM, and the ModelInterface

ModelInterface:

• New Manage Database features, including deleting scenarios (!) and auto-zipping scenario XMLs on export
• User-configurable default file editors for XML, CSV, and TXT files
• Enable/disable auto-generation of charts
• Breakout chart view
• More robust options for drag-n-drop to Excel and copying table data to the clipboard
• Please see the announcement in the discussion area for additional information.
• To report bugs or request new features, please use the Issues and Discussions sections of the website.

If you would like to be on an email list to be notified about upcoming demonstrations and trainings, please email danloughlin@gmail.com.