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Study seeks input from scientists, cyberinfrastructure users

November 9, 2021

Researchers and users of NCAR’s research computing environment are invited to participate in a survey study being conducted by Kerk Kee at Texas Tech University. The study is funded by the National Science Foundation (grants #1939067 & #1453864) to identify the organizational capacity necessary to enable cyberinfrastructure (CI) adoption and spread in the scientific community. The study is seek...

No systems downtime for November 8-12

November 5, 2021

None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, Glade, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

Where to run small jobs that use only CPUs?

November 5, 2021

CISL recommends running small jobs that use only CPUs on the Casper cluster’s high-throughput computing (HTC) nodes. Casper has 64 HTC nodes specifically for running small batch jobs. It also has: More shared resources than the Cheyenne share queue • A far higher concurrent-use limit for CPU cores than Cheyenne: 468 vs. 36. • More available memory, plus NVMe swap for overflow. Here’s an examp...

Avoid shell initialization pitfalls in Cheyenne PBS jobs

November 2, 2021

The environment propagation change to Cheyenne made on October 27 has important implications for some users’ jobs. Before that change was made to facilitate the new peer-scheduling capability, your Cheyenne environment settings – including set variables and loaded modules – were propagated by default from your login shell at submission time. That is no longer the case. Please keep this in mind ...

No systems downtime for November 1-5

October 29, 2021 Updated: November 1, 2021

None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, Glade, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

Opportunity to explore XSEDE resources

October 27, 2021 Updated: October 28, 2021

Researchers who are interested in exploring XSEDE resources for porting or assessing their code on non-NCAR systems can reach out to NCAR's XSEDE Campus Champion, Davide Del Vento, for assistance. Access and small amounts of resource time are available for such exploratory work and could be useful for preparing code to run on the new Derecho system when it becomes operational in 2022.