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Deadline extended! Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC)

March 7, 2025

The deadline to apply for this program has been extended to Sunday, March 16, 11:59PM AOE or Anywhere on Earth time (which translates to 4:59 AM on Monday, March 17, in Mountain Time). Doctoral students, postdocs, and early career scientists interested in conducting computational science and engineering research on large-scale computers are invited to apply for the 13th annual ATPESC program. ...

NWSC Facility Maintenance and Extended HPC System Downtime - June 2-6 2025

March 6, 2025

As previously announced, CISL staff will be performing necessary facility maintenance at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) in early June to replace components within the power and cooling systems that have reached the end of serviceable life after more than a decade in operation. This critical but infrequent maintenance requires a favorable weather window as much of the work must be...

Celebrate 20 years of super-droplets: Hybrid seminar and refreshments

March 5, 2025

On Thursday, March 20, 2025, at 2:00 PM MT, join NSF NCAR’s Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) department for a special seminar marking the twentieth anniversary of the revolutionary Super-Droplet Method (SDM). Dr. Shin-ichiro Shima of the University of Hyogo will present "Recent Advances and Applications of Lagrangian Particle-Based Cloud Models," reflecting on the SDM's journey from...

Join an EOL seminar on marine weather

March 5, 2025

On Tuesday, March 18th, from 2:30 to 3:30 PM MT, join the Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) seminar called "Shallow convection in marine cold-air outbreaks: boundary-layer processes, precipitation, and mesoscale organization. The University of Wyoming’s Dr. Bart Geerts will explore the complexities of shallow convection and its impact on marine environments. Attend in person or join the live we...

Read the story: Connecting weather and historical upheavals in SE Asia

March 5, 2025

Can weather shifts topple empires? A new study, powered by the computing and data resources at NSF NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL), explores the fascinating connection between historical climate shifts in Southeast Asia and the region’s sociopolitical upheavals. The study distinguishes between climate shifts caused by internal variability (e.g. natural fluctuation...

Did your CISL-powered research just get published? We want to hear from you!

February 28, 2025

Have you recently published a paper on research conducted using Derecho or Cheyenne? Then the CISL Communications Staff would like to showcase your work to the wider world. We are seeking recently-published Earth systems science research conducted using CISL’s computing resources. We’d like to spotlight this work for an upcoming series of informative, engaging science news stories to be publis...