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HPC System Maintenance - February 11-12
December 20, 2024

Derecho, Casper and the /glade/derecho/scratch file system will be unavailable Tuesday-Wednesday February 11-12.  The primary objective for this outage is to apply necessary software updates to Destor, the storage subsystem serving /glade/derecho/scratch. This maintenance requires disconnecting compute clients as well.   During the entirety of the outage compute nodes will be down for both Der...

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Register for GeoCAT’s hybrid short course at AMS 2025
December 18, 2024

On Sunday, January 12, 2025, from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm CST (or 7:00 am to 11:00 am MST), join the GeoCAT team for “Data Visualization in Python: Leveraging Community Tools for Earth System Science Across Scales.” This hybrid short course is taking place at the 105th AMS Annual Meeting at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, and will also be offered online. Data visualization is a...

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Research Computing Holiday Support Schedule
December 16, 2024

In 2024, both Christmas and New Year’s Day fall midweek, resulting in reduced HPC support during the final two weeks of the year. The Research Computing Help Desk will operate with limited staffing and adjusted hours as follows: • Tuesday, December 24th: Closing at 12:00 PM MST • Wednesday, December 25th: Closed • Tuesday, December 31st: Closing at 12:00 PM MST • Wednesday, January 1st: Closed ...

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NWSC Facility Maintenance and Extended HPC System Downtime - June 2-6 2025
December 16, 2024

CISL staff will be performing necessary facility maintenance at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) in early June to replace components within the power and cooling systems that have reached the end of serviceable life after more than a decade in operation. This critical but infrequent maintenance requires a favorable weather window as much of the work must be performed outdoors. Dur...

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Sustainable Scientific Software Conference and National Laboratory Information Technology Summit
December 11, 2024

The Sustainable Scientific Software Conference (S3C), hosted by the National Laboratories Information Technology (NLIT) Summit, will be held May 5th-8th, 2025 in Denver, CO. HPC users through system engineers among others are all welcome to attend. Registration is free for all NCAR affiliated staff or others employed by national labs and FFRDC type centers. NCAR staff may select OTHER in organi...

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Deadline Extended - NCAR / NOAA / NREL Open Hackathon and Mentor Call
December 11, 2024

The deadline to apply to participate in the NOAA / NCAR / NREL Open Hackathon has been extended to after AGU, Monday Dec 16th 11:59pm PT. The event with virtual attendance option is scheduled for February 25th to 27th 2025, to be held at the NREL campus in Golden, CO, with virtual introduction meetings on the 12th and 18th.  Open Hackathons are multi-day, hands-on events designed to facilitate...

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