CISL Daily Bulletin

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No system downtimes for week of February 28 - March 4

February 25, 2022

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

System downtimes for week of February 21 - 25

February 22, 2022

Downtime is scheduled for Quasar Thursday 2/24 from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm MT. None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, Glade, Campaign Storage, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

No system downtimes for week of February 14 - 18

February 14, 2022

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

GPU workshop video and slides published

February 7, 2022

Slides and a video recording of the February 3 tutorial “Introduction to Parallel Programming" are now available on this CISL web page, which also describes the topics covered. The series was launched recently to help the NCAR and university research communities prepare to use the extensive GPU-computing capabilities of the new Derecho system. Next in the series is “Why Use GPU Accelerators?” o...

No system downtimes for week of February 7 - 11

February 7, 2022

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

Software packages updated on Cheyenne and Casper systems

February 3, 2022

CISL has installed new versions of some commonly used software packages on Cheyenne and Casper. The latest versions of the Intel oneAPI (2022.1) and NVIDIA HPC SDK (22.1) compiler and development suites have been installed on both systems. The Intel oneAPI toolkit includes the traditional and oneAPI compilers, tools like Vtune, and libraries like Intel MPI and MKL. These toolchains will be feat...