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 OpenACC and Hackathons Summit in August

June 30, 2022

CISL is encouraging members of the HPC community preparing to use the new Derecho system and its extensive GPU resources to attend the August 2-4 OpenACC and Hackathons Summit 2022. The free virtual Zoom event will bring together scientists and developers from national labs, universities, and other institutions to discuss research advanced by OpenHackathons.org and the use of OpenACC to maximiz...

No system downtimes for week of June 27 - July 1

June 27, 2022

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

CISL adds new capability for Casper GPU jobs

June 24, 2022

CISL has augmented PBS with a capability that allows users to launch NVIDIA’s Multi-Process Service (MPS) on the Casper cluster, enabling GPU applications to process more than one CUDA kernel concurrently on a V100 GPU. The same capability will be available for the A100 GPUs on the Derecho system. The new Using NVIDIA MPS in Casper GPU jobs documentation page provides details and an example of ...

All Cheyenne and Casper users invited to July 5 user group meeting

June 24, 2022

All users of the Cheyenne and Casper systems are invited to the NCAR HPC User Group (NHUG) monthly meeting from 9 to 10 a.m. MDT on Tuesday, July 5. To contribute to the agenda or submit questions for the next meeting, please visit Slido, where you can also upvote topics and questions submitted by your peers. NHUG meetings are structured to encourage you to ask questions and voice concerns and...

No system downtimes for week of June 21-24

June 21, 2022

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

Next tutorial in GPU series is June 30

June 17, 2022

Registration is open for another session in a series of workshops and tutorials on GPU computing. “Multi-GPU Programming, Part 1” will be on Thursday, June 30, at 10 a.m. MDT. Please use this form to register by June 26 if you plan to attend and have not already registered for the series. The series of one-hour sessions is for scientists, software engineers, and students in the Earth system sc...