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Deadline Extended - 2026 NCAR / NOAA / NLR Open Hackathon

February 4, 2026

The submission deadline for the 2026 NCAR / NOAA / NLR Open Hackathon has been extended to February 11th, 2026. Scheduled May 5th to 7th, the NCAR / NOAA / NLR Open Hackathon will be a hybrid event, with virtual introduction meetings held on April 21st and 28th, when teams will be first introduced with expert mentors from National Labs, the computational science community, and NVIDIA. AI/ML a...

INnovative Training Enabled by a Research Software Engineering Community of Trainers (INTERSECT) Applications Open

February 4, 2026

The INTERSECT Bootcamp scheduled for July 13-17, 2026 at Princeton University is now accepting applications. The INTERSECT Research Software Engineering Bootcamp will be a 4.5 day intensive hands-on workshop focusing on practices that will help research software developers improve the quality, reproducibility, and sustainability of their software. The bootcamp is primarily geared towards those...

Read the article: How CIRRUS user examples are inspiring Earth system scientists to host their own projects on CIRRUS

February 2, 2026

NSF NCAR's groundbreaking cloud platform, CIRRUS, now has a dedicated User Applications page. This new page features real-world examples that illustrate the many advantages of CIRRUS and showcase how Earth system scientists, both within and outside the NSF NCAR community, are successfully utilizing the platform. CIRRUS is designed to let researchers concentrate completely on their science by e...

Join a seminar on rain microphysics—refreshments served for in-person guests

February 2, 2026

On Tuesday, February 10, at 3:30 pm MT, join NSF NCAR’s Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) for a seminar entitled “A Variational Framework for Estimating Rain Microphysics from Dual-Pol Radar Observations.” The speaker will be Nicholas Barron of Aeolus Labs. This seminar introduces a new variational framework that uses dual-pol radar to infer "unmeasurable" storm thermodynamics. By coupling S-POL...

Join the April Chameleon user meeting in Boulder; proposals due Fri. 2/13

February 2, 2026

Chameleon Cloud, in collaboration with project partner NSF NCAR, is hosting its sixth user meeting at the Mesa Lab in Boulder, CO, from Wednesday, April 15 to Thursday, April 16. Chameleon is an NSF-funded national research resource providing free access to GPUs, edge devices, and cloud infrastructure for computer science research, education, and emergent applications. CS researchers, educators...

NERSC Advanced NVIDIA HPC SDK Training

January 29, 2026

NERSC is hosting an Advanced NVIDIA HPC SDK Training, led by NVIDIA HPC Solutions Architects Vineeth Gutta and Scot Halverson. The event is scheduled March 4th to 5th, 2026 and NCAR affiliated users are welcome to apply. To note, NERSC’s compute cluster Perlmutter has very similar architecture to Derecho. NVIDIA will present a two day training session software for High Performance computing de...