CISL Daily Bulletin

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System downtimes for week of September 27 - October 1

September 27, 2021

Stratus will be down from 10 AM - 12 PM, Monday the Sept 27th for hardware work. Nothing planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Store, JupyterHub, or Quasar.

HPSS will be decommissioned Friday, October 1

September 27, 2021

Reminder! The HPSS tape archive will be decommissioned on Friday, October 1, at 5 p.m. MDT. This means file owners have just a few days left to access their files. Though time is growing short, you can still copy files. At present, the system is not very busy and enough bandwidth is available to allow for quick turnaround. If you need guidance, start here. If you have questions, please contact ...

Upcoming major change to PBS job behavior on Cheyenne

September 22, 2021

CISL is developing and testing peer-scheduling capability between Cheyenne and Casper, through which users will be able to submit jobs from Cheyenne to Casper, from Casper to Cheyenne, and craft job-dependency rules between jobs on both systems. More details on how to use this capability will come in future updates and documentation. All job submissions on Cheyenne currently are configured to i...

Campaign Storage purge policy has been updated

September 21, 2021

CISL has updated the data-retention policy for the Campaign Storage file system and no longer plans to implement an automatic purge of files five years after their creation. Instead, the system is now considered a resource for medium-term storage of project data, typically for three to five years, by NCAR labs and universities that have allocations. Campaign Storage will not continue to expand ...

NSC allocation requests are due October 26

September 21, 2021

NCAR researchers and computational scientists are encouraged to submit requests for NCAR Strategic Capability (NSC) projects to be run on the Cheyenne system. Requests will be accepted through October 26. NSC allocations target large-scale projects lasting one year to a few years that align with NCAR’s scientific priorities and strategic plans. You should be aware that the NSC panel is scrutini...

System downtimes for week of September 20 - 24

September 20, 2021

Quasar will be down for approximately one hour Monday morning at 9:00 am. Nothing planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Store, JupyterHub, or Stratus.