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+# Options related to deploying an e3sm-unified conda environment on supported
+# machines
+[e3sm_unified]
+
+# the unix group for permissions for the e3sm-unified conda environment
+group = e3sm
+
+# the compiler set to use for system libraries and MPAS builds
+compiler = oneapi-ifx
+
+# the system MPI library to use for intel18 compiler
+mpi = mpich
+
+# the path to the directory where activation scripts, the base environment, and
+# system libraries will be deployed
+base_path = TODO
+
+# whether to use system modules for hdf5, netcdf-c, netcdf-fortran and pnetcdf
+# (spack modules are used otherwise)
+use_system_hdf5_netcdf = True
+
+
+# config options related to data needed by diagnostics software such as
+# e3sm_diags and MPAS-Analysis
+[diagnostics]
+
+# The base path to the diagnostics directory
+base_path = TODO
+
+# the unix group for permissions for diagnostics
+group = e3sm
+
+
+# config options associated with web portals
+[web_portal]
+
+# The path to the base of the web portals
+base_path = TODO
+
+# The base URL that corresponds to the base path
+base_url = TODO
+
+
+# The parallel section describes options related to running jobs in parallel
+[parallel]
+
+# parallel system of execution: slurm, cobalt or single_node
+system = slurm
+
+# whether to use mpirun or srun to run a task
+parallel_executable = srun
+
+# cores per node on the machine (with hyperthreading)
+cores_per_node = 208
+
+# account for running diagnostics jobs
+account = CSC249ADSE15_CNDA
+
+# available constraint(s) (default is the first)
+constraints = gpu
+
+# quality of service (default is the first)
+qos = regular, debug, premium
+
+# Config options related to spack environments
+[spack]
+
+# whether to load modules from the spack yaml file before loading the spack
+# environment
+modules_before = False
+
+# whether to load modules from the spack yaml file after loading the spack
+# environment
+modules_after = False
+
+# whether the machine uses cray compilers
+cray_compilers = True
+
+
+# config options related to synchronizing files
+[sync]
+
+# the full hostname of the machine
+hostname = TODO