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Deadline March 10 for large university allocation requests

January 17, 2025

CISL is now accepting large-scale allocation requests from university-based researchers for the Derecho system as well as the Casper data analysis and visualization cluster. Those requests are due March 10. We are actively seeking projects that can take advantage of Derecho’s 328 NVIDIA A100 GPUs. At the CISL HPC Allocations Panel (CHAP) spring 2025 meeting, CISL will allocate up to 500 mil...

“Could we get weather forecasts years—or a decade—in advance?” Listen to the Science Friday broadcast with NSF NCAR researchers

January 16, 2025

In the near future, it may be possible to get accurate weather forecasts weeks, months, or even a decade ahead of schedule. This may even enable regions to prepare for dangerous natural hazards well ahead of time. While this sounds like science fiction, researchers at NSF NCAR are working on this very challenge. The field, which utilizes powerful supercomputers, is called Earth system predict...

UCAR SEA Panel Discussion on Language Interoperability

January 16, 2025

The UCAR Software Engineering Assembly will hold a panel of lightning talks followed by a discussion on language interoperability at 3 PM MT on Wednesday February 26, 2025. The discussion can include more traditional Fortran-C/C++ interoperability, but we're especially interested in interoperability of compiled codes with interpreted languages such as Python and Julia. For example, the Earth S...

Apply by Jan. 31 for the April 2025 NAIRR AI workshop in Denver; volunteer opportunities available

January 15, 2025

The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot is pleased to announce the workshop “AI Unlocked: Empowering Higher Education through Research and Discovery,” held Wednesday, April 2 to Thursday, April 3 in Denver, CO. With a mix of expert-led presentations and substantial hands-on support, this workshop helps participants leverage AI for their current work and for career a...

All NCAR HPC users are invited to join the January 21st NHUG meeting!

January 15, 2025

The next NHUG meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 1-2 pm MT, and we invite all NCAR HPC users to attend. In this month's meeting, we will cover upcoming outages, share information on relevant events and opportunities, and introduce a new tool that simplifies running Visual Studio Code on Casper compute nodes. Additionally, Dr. George Bryan will discuss recent developments in ...

Support Available for Students with Submissions to ISS 2025

January 9, 2025

Abstract submission is open until January 24, 2025 for the annual Improving Scientific Software Conference, which will take place April 7-10, 2025 in Boulder, CO and virtually. The theme of ISS 2025 is From Legacy to Leading-Edge: Transforming Software Design in Science to Meet Tomorrow’s Challenges. We are accepting submissions for talks, as well as tutorial and panel sessions. The ISS Commit...