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.

More Derecho user documentation published
March 27, 2023

Additional new documentation about using the Derecho system and other NCAR high-performance computing resources is now available on the Advanced Research Computing portal. Derecho-specific documentation made available recently includes: • an overview of the Lustre scratch file system. • basic environment details. • system use policies. Detailed documentation about starting Derecho jobs, monit...

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System downtimes for week of March 27 - 31
March 24, 2023 Updated: March 27, 2023

Quasar will be down Tuesday, March 28, from 8:00 a.m. to noon for relocating one of its mover nodes and the associated tape drives.  No downtime is planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage,  Stratus, or JupyterHub.   

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Derecho weekly update
March 27, 2023

The NWSC facility experienced power quality issues twice last week, causing power safety equipment to trip appropriately and Derecho compute racks to power off. These incidents were the direct result of a newly built neighboring facility trying to energize for the first time. Once Derecho was brought back online, the Slingshot interconnect fabric stopped working and the project team spent most ...

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Apply by March 31 for software engineering bootcamp
March 23, 2023

Applications are being accepted until Friday, March 31, for the INTERSECT Research Software Engineering Bootcamp hosted by Princeton University from July 10 to 14. The intensive, hands-on workshop will focus on practices that will help research software developers improve the quality, reproducibility, and sustainability of their software. The workshop is intended for those who self-identify as ...

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SC23 “Women in HPC” features two CISL staffers
March 22, 2023

Two members of the Computational and Information Systems Lab (CISL) staff are featured in a series of Women’s History Month profiles titled “SuperComputing 2023 Celebrates Thirty-One Women in HPC.” Sheri Mickelson, a software engineer and group manager in CISL’s Technology Development Division, and Summer Wasson, education and multimedia specialist in the High Performance Computing Division, we...

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All welcome at April 6 SEA general interest meeting
March 20, 2023

The UCAR Software Engineering Assembly (SEA) will hold a general meeting of members and prospective members from 10 to 11 a.m. MDT on Thursday, April 6. The meeting will be virtual and all UCAR/NCAR staff members who are interested in scientific software engineering are welcome. You do not need to be classified as a “software engineer” to be welcome in the SEA. In the meeting, the current execu...

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