CISL Daily Bulletin

The Daily Bulletin delivers news about CISL’s high-performance computing environment, training opportunities, scheduled maintenance, and other events of interest to the user community.

Register soon for early-2023 Open Hackathon

November 23, 2022

NCAR, NOAA, NVIDIA and OpenACC.org are hosting an Open Hackathon on February 21 (an online-only introduction) and February 28 through March 2 at the NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder (hybrid format). Open Hackathons are opportunities for scientists and research software engineers to collaborate with expert mentors from national labs, universities, and industry leaders to accelerate their high-performanc...

No system downtimes for week of November 28 - December 2

November 23, 2022

None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

Search begins for new CGD lab director

November 22, 2022

NCAR has begun its search for a new Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) Laboratory director with this announcement of the job opening. CGD conducts directed research that discovers the key processes in each component of the Earth’s climate system and the interactions among them, represents this understanding in models and thereby provides a basis for the prediction of climate; and applies this un...

Holiday schedule for Help Desk and Consulting Services

November 21, 2022

The CISL Help Desk team and Consulting Services Group will be taking Thursday and Friday off so staff members can enjoy the holiday weekend along with the rest of NCAR and UCAR. Users can still submit help requests as needed or call 303-497-2400 to report issues that might require attention during the weekend.

No system downtimes for week of November 21 - 25

November 18, 2022

None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

NCAR wins award for Best Use of HPC in Physical Sciences

November 16, 2022

NCAR has won an HPCwire Editor's Choice award for Best Use of HPC in the Physical Sciences for developing the GPU-based FastEddy model, which can run weather forecasts at a resolution of just five meters (16 feet). FastEddy, which was trained on CISL’s Casper cluster, is a new resident-GPU microscale large-eddy simulation (LES) model coupled with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model...