CISL Daily Bulletin

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TOMORROW: Join the next GDEX Discovery Series session!

August 11, 2026

Join the next session of the GDEX Discovery Series on Wednesday, August 12, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm MT. This month’s session features Harsha Hampapura, who will present on the Open Science Data Federation (OSDF). This month’s topic: Have you ever wondered how GDEX serves data efficiently to users around the world? We collaborate with the OSDF—a content distribution network for science that ...

8th NOAA AI Workshop

August 10, 2026

Hosted by the NOAA Center for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) and scheduled for August 25th to 27th, this free hybrid event in Boulder, CO is part of the annual NOAA AI workshop series to foster community discussion around AI that are relevant to NOAA missions. The 8th NOAA AI Workshop hosted virtual events in March and June. The Workshop event series will conclude with a 3-day August hybrid ev...

Final Reminder for AMS 2027 Submissions - 13th AMS Symposium for HPC for Weather, Water, and Climate

August 10, 2026

The deadline for abstracts to be submitted for the AMS 2027 conference is rapidly approaching on August 11, 2026 at 5PM ET / 3pm MT. AMS has indicated this year that the abstract submission deadline is FIRM and will NOT be extended. Researchers utilizing NSF NCAR HPC systems including Derecho and Casper may specifically be interested in the 13th AMS Symposium for High Performance Computing for...

Subject: Update: Changes to the HPC Bulletin

August 3, 2026

All, Thank you for taking the time to read our daily bulletin! For the past several decades, we have published the Daily Bulletin for our technical user community on a daily cadence. We're making a few changes to how we communicate HPC updates, effective soon. The “Daily Bulletin” will transition to a new format and name. Going forward, it will be known as the HPC Bulletin and will shift from...

Upcoming Outages: Derecho (3 days, 8/31-9/2); All Services (1 day, 9/1)

August 2, 2026

CISL is planning HPC system outages for the following services on an overlapping schedule: • All user-facing services: Tuesday, September 1 • Derecho: Monday, August 31 – Wednesday, September 2 All system services will be sporadically unavailable on Tuesday, September 1 to allow for necessary software upgrades and hardware maintenance. This includes Casper, filesystem access, and Quasar, along...

Announcing sam.hpc.ucar.edu

August 2, 2026

After a lot of internal development, the new SAM web interface is ready for you to use: https://sam.hpc.ucar.edu. Sign in with your usual UCAR SSO and you'll land on a dashboard for your stuff. My Accounts lists every project you belong to, with allocated / used / remaining for each resource, how fast you're burning it, and when it expires. My Jobs gives you your recent job history on Derecho a...