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LEAP’s Winter 2026 Momentum Bootcamp

December 10, 2025 Updated: December 11, 2025

The Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics (LEAP) program, an NSF Science and Technology Center (STC), is hosting a Winter 2026 Momentum Bootcamp January 12-13th, 2026 at Teachers College, Columbia University and virtually. The program will include a hands-on event designed to foster convergence of climate science and data science; vertically integrate research and educati...

Research Computing Holiday Support Schedule

December 8, 2025

In 2025, 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: Wednesday, December 24th: Closing at 12:00 PM MST Thursday, December 25th: Closed Wednesday, December 31st: Closing at 12:00 PM MST Thursday, January 1st: Closed Supp...

Derecho Maintenance Tuesday, December 16th

December 8, 2025

Derecho resources will be unavailable Tuesday, December 16th from approximately 6am-5pm MST in order to facilitate power infrastructure work in conjunction with the local utility provider. Scheduled jobs will be held and will resume after system checkout. All other HPC resources are expected to remain available.

Read the article: New CIRRUS cloud service from NSF NCAR accelerates Earth system science research

December 4, 2025

NSF NCAR's new CIRRUS platform (Cloud Infrastructure for Remote Research, Universities, and Scientists) is an innovative on-prem cloud platform that advances Earth system science research. Built on developer-friendly, Kubernetes-based technology, CIRRUS accelerates development by enabling researchers to deploy applications and host services. The platform's first major tangible achievement is h...

Reminder: Mark your calendars! On 12/18, NSF NCAR's AGU Town Hall is on-site in New Orleans

December 4, 2025

The NSF NCAR AGU Town Hall is happening live and in-person on Thursday, December 18, from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Central Time. The event is on-site only at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, which takes place at the New Orleans Convention Center from Monday, December 15 to Friday, December 19. Register here for AGU25. NSF NCAR’s Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (...

Join us for NHUG Special Session: Profiling with Linaro MAP: New Features & Live Demo (12-09, 9-10 am MT)

December 4, 2025

The next NCAR HPC User Group (NHUG) meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, at 9:00 AM MT. We invite all NCAR HPC users to join. This month, we’re excited to host Beau Paisley and colleagues from Linaro for a technical presentation and live demo of the Linaro MAP profiler, showcasing its latest features. Linaro MAP is the performance profiler within the Linaro Forge toolkit, design...