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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...

Migrate your Derecho cron jobs to cron.hpc.ucar.edu by February 11th!

January 24, 2025

HPCD is planning on ending service for crontabs on Derecho login and migrating to a dedicated cron server in the coming month. Users utilizing this service should begin migrating their crontabs over to the dedicated cron server as soon as possible. New cron users should avoid setting up their crontabs on Derecho directly and instead set up their crontabs on the dedicated server. This change is...

Deadline March 10 for large university allocation requests

January 17, 2025

CISL is now accepting large-scale allocation requests from university-based researchers for the Derecho system as well as the Casper data analysis and visualization cluster. Those requests are due March 10. We are actively seeking projects that can take advantage of Derecho’s 328 NVIDIA A100 GPUs. At the CISL HPC Allocations Panel (CHAP) spring 2025 meeting, CISL will allocate up to 500 mil...

“Could we get weather forecasts years—or a decade—in advance?” Listen to the Science Friday broadcast with NSF NCAR researchers

January 16, 2025

In the near future, it may be possible to get accurate weather forecasts weeks, months, or even a decade ahead of schedule. This may even enable regions to prepare for dangerous natural hazards well ahead of time. While this sounds like science fiction, researchers at NSF NCAR are working on this very challenge. The field, which utilizes powerful supercomputers, is called Earth system predict...

UCAR SEA Panel Discussion on Language Interoperability

January 16, 2025

The UCAR Software Engineering Assembly will hold a panel of lightning talks followed by a discussion on language interoperability at 3 PM MT on Wednesday February 26, 2025. The discussion can include more traditional Fortran-C/C++ interoperability, but we're especially interested in interoperability of compiled codes with interpreted languages such as Python and Julia. For example, the Earth S...