CISL Daily Bulletin

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Less than 1 month until HPSS is decommissioned

September 1, 2021

Reminder! The HPSS tape archive will be decommissioned on October 1. This means file owners have less than a month left to access their files. Though time is growing short, you can still accomplish a fair amount of file-copying. At present, the system is not very busy and enough bandwidth is available to allow for quick turnaround. If you need guidance, start here. If you have questions, please...

Systems downtime for August 30-September 3

August 30, 2021

Quasar will be down for firmware updates from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm on August 31st. Nothing planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Store, JupyterHub, or Stratus.

Did you know? Two ways of sharing data with colleagues via Globus

August 26, 2021

Researchers who need to share large amounts of data with colleagues can do that a couple of different ways with the NCAR Data Sharing Service: By giving them easy access to files on the Campaign Storage file system or by sharing files short-term in a shared 50 TB space of their own. Suppose you have files on Campaign Storage. You can share them through a special “NCAR Campaign Storage" Globus e...

Two of several different allocation request forms featured on the ARC portal.

Allocation requests now made through ARC portal

August 24, 2021

University researchers and NCAR labs can now submit new allocation requests and manage existing projects through the expanded NCAR Advanced Research Computing (ARC) portal. The addition of allocations to the portal is the latest step in bringing several CISL user-support services together in one place. Request forms are now in the same portal as the Daily Bulletin, high-performance computing (H...

Systems downtime for August 23-27

August 23, 2021

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

Tutorial August 25: Plotting with GeoCAT

August 20, 2021

The NCAR/UCAR virtual Python Tutorial Seminar Series continues Wednesday, August 25, with Plotting with GeoCAT at 1 p.m. MDT. See the NCAR Earth System Data Science Initiative blog for tutorial details and how to prepare.