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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...

“What is a climate emulator?” Read the interview with NSF NCAR’s Dr. Allison H. Baker about the prize-winning research

January 9, 2025

“A climate emulator is a statistical model designed to mimic the behavior of a climate model... to generate new data or predict outcomes for new inputs more cheaply than running the full climate model.” — Dr. Allison H. Baker Last November, Dr. Allison H. Baker was part of the team that won the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling—a prize recognizing innovative parallel computing contrib...

Applications open for International High Performance Computing Summer School (IHPCSS)

January 8, 2025

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Australia, Europe, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the 15th International High Performance Computing Summer School (IHPCSS), to be held on July 6–11, 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal. Applications for this expense-paid program are due by 23:59 Anywhere on Earth Time (AOE) on Friday, January 31, 2025 (which translate...

University instructors: Use NSF NCAR computing resources in your university courses

January 3, 2025

Do you teach a university class? Consider applying for a classroom allocation on Derecho. As part of NSF NCAR’s mission to support atmospheric science and education, faculty and instructors at any two- or four-year U.S. institution can use HPC and analysis resources from NSF NCAR in their courses in Earth systems science and related areas. Classroom allocations can also be used for shorter-t...

Coming up soon! Important NSF NCAR agency update at AMS 2025

January 2, 2025

Join NSF NCAR at the AMS 2025 conference in New Orleans on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm CT (11:15 am to 12:15 pm MT), for an agency update on its advanced computing, data services, software, and educational resources for Earth systems science. The event will take place in-person at the 2025 American Meteorological Society Conference (AMS 2025) at the Ernest N. Morial Conve...

Apply by Jan. 31 for the Women in IT Networking Program (WINS) for SC25

January 2, 2025

The Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program is now accepting applications for 2025. Since 2015, the WINS program has provided an immersive “hands-on” mentorship opportunity for early- to mid-career women in the IT field. Each awardee will receive a SCinet team, mentor, travel funding, ongoing support, and career development opportunities. Awardees are selected to participate in the groun...