CISL Daily Bulletin

The Daily Bulletin delivers news about CISL’s high-performance computing environment, training opportunities, scheduled maintenance, and other events of interest to the user community.

System downtimes for week of September 19 - 23

September 19, 2022

Quasar will be will be taken offline at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, September 20, for about four hours. No downtime is planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

Quasar data archive system maintenance on September 20

September 14, 2022

The Quasar tape-based archive for storing curated data collections will be taken offline at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, September 20, for maintenance of its disk subsystem hardware. The expected duration of this outage is approximately 4 hours, ending at around noon. During this time period, users will not be able to access the Quasar Globus endpoint.

Virtual workshop this week for research software engineers

September 13, 2022

A workshop presented by the U.S. Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE) takes place this week from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. MDT on Wednesday and Friday. The 2022 US-RSE workshop’s theme is “Make it happen! Towards a diverse and sustainable future!” The agenda features talks, community events, and working group sessions. Team leads, software engineers and others who write code to solve researc...

System downtimes for week of September 12 - 16

September 9, 2022

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

Reminder: HPC systems maintenance downtime October 17-20

September 9, 2022

NCAR’s HPC resources will be unavailable to users October 17-20 while CISL staff perform preventive maintenance and security updates. The work includes a number of HPC system security patches in addition to regularly scheduled maintenance on Cheyenne’s cooling infrastructure. Progress will be communicated through Notifier emails during the week. Security updates are planned for Cheyenne and Cas...

Seeking HPC users’ input on containers

September 8, 2022

Are you interested in running containerized software in an HPC environment? Would you like an easier path to distributing software developed at NCAR to collaborators at sites around the globe? CISL’s Consulting Services Group is seeking feedback on use cases to help us focus our training and solution offerings going forward. Please help shape the future of NCAR’s containerized application suppo...