Political, science, academic, and business leaders formally inaugurated NCAR’s new supercomputer August 18 at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC). Derecho will provide researchers across the country with an important new tool to advance understanding of the atmosphere and other Earth system processes.

Among the dignitaries who participated in the ribbon cutting were Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon; Wyoming Senator John Barrasso; leaders of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the University of Wyoming; and top officials with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Joining these dignitaries was Wyoming high school student Cael Arbogast, who named the computer as part of a Wyoming-wide contest in 2021.

Derecho is now open for use by the entire user community. Researchers are encouraged to transfer Cheyenne allocations to Derecho at their earliest convenience. The next deadline for university large-scale allocation proposals is September 12, and the Consulting Services Group is hosting its third Intro to Derecho tutorial on August 29.

For more details and photographs, see the story on the CISL website.