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HPC System Maintenance - February 11-12

January 29, 2025

Derecho, Casper, JupyterHub and the /glade/derecho/scratch file system will be unavailable Tuesday-Wednesday February 11-12. The primary objective for this outage is to apply necessary software updates to Destor, the storage subsystem serving /glade/derecho/scratch. This maintenance requires disconnecting compute clients as well. During the entirety of the outage compute nodes will be down ...

Register for Feb. 6 info session: 2025 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC)

January 27, 2025

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. ATPESC provides intensive, two-week training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science and engineering applications on current hig...

Deadline March 5: Apply for ATPESC, the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing

January 27, 2025

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. This year's program will be held from Sunday, July 27 to Thursday, August 8, 2025 in the Chicagoland area. ATPESC provides intensive, two-week training on the key skills, approaches, an...

ISS 2025 Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to Jan 30

January 27, 2025

The abstract submission deadline for the annual Improving Scientific Software Conference, which will take place April 7-10, 2025 in Boulder, CO and virtually, has been extended to 5 PM MT on Thursday, January 30. Thank you to all who have already submitted an abstract. The theme of ISS 2025 is From Legacy to Leading-Edge: Transforming Software Design in Science to Meet Tomorrow’s Challenges, a...

Applications Open—ARM 2025 Summer School: Open Science in the Forest

January 24, 2025

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility will host an open science-focused summer school Monday, May 19, to Friday, May 23, 2025, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The program is free for accepted students and financial aid is available for travel, lodging, and meal costs given demonstrated need. The overarching mission of the “Open Science in the Forest Summer Schoo...

Wildfire science: a major research focus at NSF NCAR

January 24, 2025

The catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires are a stark reminder of the importance of Earth system science research in a time of increasingly severe and frequent weather- and climate-related disasters. NSF NCAR researchers study a wide range of topics related to wildfires, from modeling the behavior of individual blazes to using research aircraft to observe the makeup of wildfire smoke plumes. NSF...