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Join Us for the October NHUG Meeting: CIRRUS CI Workflows for StormSpeed, PBS GPU Updates, and More!

October 20, 2025

The next NCAR HPC User Group (NHUG) meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 1:00 PM MT, and we invite all NCAR HPC users to join. This month’s agenda will include: • Upcoming workshops and relevant opportunities • November planned outages • Upcoming changes to PBS GPU type selection on Derecho and Casper • Stratus/Boreas transition updates • Leveraging CISL’s CIRRUS cloud to run...

Read the article: “Weathering the forecast: How AMPS powers Antarctic operations”

October 20, 2025

NSF NCAR plays a crucial, life-saving role in Antarctic operations through its Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS). Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, AMPS was developed in 2000 and operates with support from the NSF Office of Polar Programs (OPP). AMPS uses advanced weather models running on the Derecho supercomputer to generate critical, twice-daily forecasts for the entire Antar...

NASEM Webinar on Tuesday 10/21 - Advanced AI for Earth Systems Forecasting

October 15, 2025 Updated: October 17, 2025

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is hosting a webinar Advanced AI for Earth Systems Forecasting Tuesday, October 21, 9:30am-10:30am MT on the topic of the challenges regarding the collection of sufficient data for particular scales and filling gaps between modeled scenarios. Through technical presentations, panelists will provide an overview of the history of Earth ...

Don't forget: The application deadline for the BSSw Fellowship is coming up (Friday 10/31)!

October 15, 2025

The Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship is a great opportunity to improve developer productivity and software sustainability. The fellowship offers up to $25,000 for activities that promote better scientific software, such as organizing a workshop, preparing a tutorial, or creating content. Apply here. Applications are open to individuals at all career stages, and the deadline to app...

Reminder: ESIP Community Fellows Deadline is Monday 10/20

October 15, 2025

Don’t forget. The ESIP Community Fellows program is now accepting applications for its next cohort. This is a great opportunity for graduate students interested in bridging the gap between informatics and Earth science. Fellows work with an ESIP Collaboration Area, documenting group activities and engaging with professionals in an interdisciplinary setting. The fellowship offers early-career re...

HPC Systems Scheduled Maintenance - November 4-5, 2025

October 15, 2025

All HPC Resources will undergo maintenance November 4-5, 2025. Derecho, Casper, JupyterHub, GLADE file systems, data access nodes, and Globus transfers will all be unavailable for various durations over these two days. The primary maintenance activity will be upgrading the operating system version deployed on Casper and Derecho. This critical activity is required in order to satisfy secur...