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Tutorial August 25: Plotting with GeoCAT

August 20, 2021

The NCAR/UCAR virtual Python Tutorial Seminar Series continues Wednesday, August 25, with Plotting with GeoCAT at 1 p.m. MDT. See the NCAR Earth System Data Science Initiative blog for tutorial details and how to prepare.

Consulting Services Group will be in training August 23-26

August 19, 2021

CISL’s Consulting Services Group will be in all-day training classes from Monday, August 23, through Thursday, August 26, to prepare for NCAR’s next supercomputing system, Derecho. Response times for support tickets submitted via NCAR's Research Computing help desk will likely be longer than usual during this period. We appreciate your patience and cooperation throughout our training period.

WINS selects five women for SC21 networking program

August 18, 2021

Five new participants have been chosen to join the Women in IT Networking program at SC (WINS) program for SC21 - the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC) which will take place this year from November 14-19 in St. Louis, Missouri. WINS was developed in 2015 to help address the gender gap that exists in information technology, par...

Register now! Prepare for Derecho with NVIDIA GPU training

August 16, 2021

With the arrival of Derecho still months away, now’s a good time to learn more about GPU programming, accelerated machine learning, and porting to and optimizing for the NVIDIA hardware that will be featured on the new system (A100 GPUs). Throughout the year, NVIDIA partners with institutions to host bootcamps and hackathons with both HPC and AI focus. These events are open to all, and can be e...

No downtime scheduled for week of August 16-20

August 16, 2021

No maintenance planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, HPSS, JupyterHub, Quasar, and Stratus.

Image from a Hurricane Odile simulation in the CISL Visualization Gallery

Help for researchers visualizing their data

August 13, 2021

Researchers who want help visualizing data to demonstrate the results of their scientific computing can request expert assistance and collaboration from CISL. This service is available to researchers using specialized applications on data analysis and visualization resources that CISL manages. CISL visualization staff have special expertise in CISL-developed software such as VAPOR and NCL but a...