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System downtimes for week of May 3-7

May 3, 2021

No downtimes scheduled for May 3-7

How to avoid deleting data when transferring files

April 29, 2021

Accidentally deleting data can ruin your whole day and then some. One key to avoiding this is to double- or triple-check that you have not specified the same files as both source and destination before you execute a transfer. When using the Globus web interface to transfer files, for example, activate the sync option in the Transfer & Sync Options menu. Sync can be set to allow a file transfer ...

AI summer school scheduled for July 26-29

April 27, 2021

NCAR and the National Science Foundation AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography are jointly offering a summer school on trustworthy AI for environmental science (TAI4ES) on July 26-29 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. CDT. The summer school will be held entirely online and registration is free. Topics include Trustworthy AI, Explainable and Robust AI, Eth...

Python tutorial April 28: Cartopy

April 26, 2021

The NCAR/UCAR virtual Python Tutorial Seminar Series continues on Wednesday, April 28, with an introduction to the Python package cartopy at 1 p.m. MDT. See the Xdev blog for information about the tutorial.

System downtimes for week of April 26-30

April 26, 2021

Scheduled downtime for HPSS April 28th from 7:00 - 3:00 for hardware repair of one of the libraries at NWSC. No scheduled downtime: Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus.

Time to finish evacuating HPSS data holdings

April 22, 2021 Updated: April 26, 2021

Now is a good time to finish evacuating your data holdings from the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) tape archive if you haven’t already done so. Bandwidth for copying needed files from HPSS to alternative storage is currently underutilized, and waiting until closer to the system’s decommissioning on October 1 of this year is risky given the fragile and deteriorating condition of the syst...