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This Tuesday, join the conversation: “Deep dive into the heart of the Derecho supercomputer”

August 15, 2024

Join a virtual NSF NCAR Explorer Series conversation on supercomputers on Tuesday, August 20th, from 10:00 to 11:00 am MT. Register here. Have you ever looked inside a supercomputer? Join a guided tour inside Derecho, NSF NCAR's newest supercomputer! Systems Engineers Jenett Tillotson and Connor Scott will dive deep into the heart of the machine, exploring the processors, memory, and specializ...

Abstracts sought for FAIR data and software session at AMS 2025

August 9, 2024

Earth system science researchers can submit an abstract to a session being co-chaired by NCAR’s Doug Schuster at the AMS 2025 annual meeting titled "FAIR and Open Data and Software within the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences to Support Transparent, Reusable, and Efficient Research and Operations." The abstract submission deadline is Thursday, August 15. The full solicitation call is at the AMS ...

SEA Open Discussion on GPUs and Accelerators

August 8, 2024

Join the UCAR Software Engineering Assembly at 11 AM MT on Tuesday, August 13 for a lightly-moderated discussion on the use of GPUs or any other hardware accelerators across UCAR. Any discussion topics are welcome, as are all experience levels. We encourage you to share your experiences, good and bad. Some potential discussion topics include: • Current uses of GPUs and accelerators, includin...

Deadline September 10 for large university allocation requests

July 24, 2024 Updated: August 5, 2024

CISL is now accepting large-scale allocation requests from university-based researchers for the Derecho system as well as the Casper data analysis and visualization cluster. Those requests are due September 10. We are actively seeking projects that can take advantage of Derecho’s 328 NVIDIA A100 GPUs. At the CISL HPC Allocations Panel (CHAP) fall 2024 meeting, CISL will allocate up to 500 mill...

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

July 31, 2024

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...

Read article: NSF NCAR becomes an official partner for the Chameleon testbed

July 31, 2024

Chameleon is an experimental testbed for computer science research. Partnering with NSF NCAR and the University of Chicago, Chameleon has served over 10,000 users and contributed to more than 700 research publications. Chameleon has now secured an additional $12 million in NSF funding to roll out its next four-year phase. A significant highlight of this phase is the formal integration of NSF N...