Describe the Task

Upgrade some of MET's external dependencies (based on availability on WCOSS2):

• Grib2C from 1.6.0 to 1.6.4
• Jasper from 1.900.1 to 2.0.25
• GSL from 2.1 to 2.7
• BUFRLIB from 11.3.0 to 11.6.0
• Decrease Proj from 9.2.1 to 7.1.0
  and ensure that MET and its dependencies compile with the new Intel oneAPI Compilers.

Also include changes for Enhance MET to compile and link against the Atlas and ecKit libraries #2574. Atlas and ecKit will be optional libraries. We will use the following versions based on availability on WCOSS2:
Atlas 0.30.0
EcKit 1.20.2

Note that METbaseimage will need to be updated along with enhancing the Dockerfile to allow the MET branch and tarfile location to be defined at build time. METbaseimage will provides a test for the GNU compilers, but not Intel ones.

In the second half of 2023 Intel will be ending their classic compilers for the new Intel LLVM-based compilers Intel® oneAPI C++ Compiler (ICX)(https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/getting-to-know-llvm-based-oneapi-compilers.html#:~:text=Intel%20oneAPI%20DPC%2B%2B%2FC%2B%2B%20Compiler,-oneAPI's%20Data%20Parallel&text=It's%20built%20on%20LLVM%20and,C%2B%2B%20for%20heterogeneous%20computing%20platforms.)

The porting guide from intel classic compilers to intel llvm compilers can be found here:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/guide/porting-guide-for-ifort-to-ifx.html
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/guide/porting-guide-for-icc-users-to-dpcpp-or-icx.html

According to intel it should be a simple change to use these exports:

  export CC=icx
  export CXX=icpx
  export FC=ifx
  export F77=ifx
  export F90=ifx
  export MPIFC="mpiifort -fc=ifx"
  export MPIF77="mpiifort -fc=ifx"
  export MPIF90="mpiifort -fc=ifx"
  export MPICC="mpiicc -cc=icx"
  export MPICXX="mpiicpc -cxx=icpx"

Will Hatheway used the above exports MET but found several errors. See attached here in a zip file.
MET_intel_llvm.zip

Time Estimate

3 days

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12.0.0 release

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