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Register by July 12 for the 6th NOAA AI Workshop in September

July 2, 2024

Join a workshop held by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), entitled “Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Atmospheric Sciences.” It will take place September 16 to 20, 2024. All interested scientists, AI practitioners, and application end-users are invited to join this community-driven collaboration development event. Complete the expression of interest form ...

CSG Help Desk closed for the Fourth of July holiday

June 26, 2024

Please note that the Consulting Services Group (CSG) and the Help Desk will be closed Thursday, July 4th, for Independence Day. The Help Desk will reopen Friday, July 5th to resume its normal hours (7:30 AM to 5:00 PM Mountain Time, Monday to Friday). If you need help during this time, please submit a ticket to help@ucar.edu, or call 303-497-2000 to reach the Cheyenne Network Operations Cent...

Derecho Cooling System Maintenance - Tuesday, July 2

June 25, 2024

Derecho maintenance will occur as regularly scheduled for the first Tuesday of the month, July 2nd, from approximately 7am to 7pm. This outage is necessary to complete cooling system components and has been scheduled in conjunction with vendor availability. During this time, all Derecho login and compute nodes will be unavailable. Shared file systems will remain available throughout the maint...

This Thursday: Join an Open Call with Thomas Hauser

June 24, 2024

On Thursday, June 27, at 11:00 am MT, join EDUCAUSE for a Research Computing and Data Community Group Open Call with guest speaker Thomas Hauser, Director of NSF NCAR. The call is entitled “Advancing Earth System Science through Research Computing and Data Services at NSF NCAR.” EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association that seeks to advance the strategic use of technology and data in higher educ...

No system downtimes for week of June 24 - 28

June 21, 2024

None planned for Casper, Derecho, GLADE, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

Read all about MPAS, the next-gen atmospheric model

June 21, 2024

The Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS), developed by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), is a flexible, next-generation atmospheric model that accurately models regional and global weather. MPAS helps bridge the gap between high-resolution regional weather modeling and low-resolution global climate modeling. In a new NCAR News articl...