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No system downtimes for week of May 20 - 24
May 20, 2024

None planned for Casper, Derecho, GLADE, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub. 

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Join the SEA Open Discussion on Mentorship
May 17, 2024

Join the UCAR Software Engineering Assembly (SEA) at 1pm on June 6 for a lightly-moderated discussion on mentorship across UCAR. Any discussion topics are welcome, as are all experience levels. We encourage you to share your experiences and hope to leverage this information to improve the experience for both mentors and mentees. We also strongly encourage our summer interns to participate and ...

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Did You Know: Adding your own modules with Spack
May 17, 2024

On both Casper and Derecho, CISL uses the Spack package manager to install compilers and software libraries for you to use. You are probably familiar with these software packages from using our modules system. However, you may not know that you can also augment our software stack with your own package installs using Spack. It provides the concept of “chained installations”, in which there is a ...

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Register by May 26 for the June Pythia Cook-off hackathon!
May 15, 2024

Registration is open for the 2024 Pythia Cook-off. This annual, NSF-funded hackathon for Cookbook development will grow participants’ Python coding skills and expand Pythia Cookbooks for the open-source, open-science community. Also consider registering to lead a small breakout group! Join the hackathon online via Zoom, or in-person at the NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder, June 11–14, 2024. Registrati...

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May 28 tutorial introduces new users to NCAR supercomputing
May 14, 2024

A CISL Consulting Services Group (CSG) tutorial from 1:30pm to 3:00 p.m. MDT on Tuesday, May 28, will introduce new users to the Derecho high-performance computing system and the Casper cluster for data analysis, visualization, and machine learning. Topics that CSG’s Brett Neuman will cover include: • What HPC systems are available at NCAR and how to access them • Basics of job submission in ...

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No system downtimes for week of May 13 - 17
May 10, 2024

None planned for Casper, Derecho, GLADE, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub. 

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