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In 2024, both Christmas and New Year’s Day fall midweek, resulting in reduced HPC support during the final two weeks of the year. The Research Computing Help Desk will operate with limited staffing and adjusted hours as follows: • Tuesday, December 24th: Closing at 12:00 PM MST • Wednesday, December 25th: Closed • Tuesday, December 31st: Closing at 12:00 PM MST • Wednesday, January 1st: Closed ...
CISL staff will be performing necessary facility maintenance at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) in early June to replace components within the power and cooling systems that have reached the end of serviceable life after more than a decade in operation. This critical but infrequent maintenance requires a favorable weather window as much of the work must be performed outdoors. Dur...
The Sustainable Scientific Software Conference (S3C), hosted by the National Laboratories Information Technology (NLIT) Summit, will be held May 5th-8th, 2025 in Denver, CO. HPC users through system engineers among others are all welcome to attend. Registration is free for all NCAR affiliated staff or others employed by national labs and FFRDC type centers. NCAR staff may select OTHER in organi...
The deadline to apply to participate in the NOAA / NCAR / NREL Open Hackathon has been extended to after AGU, Monday Dec 16th 11:59pm PT. The event with virtual attendance option is scheduled for February 25th to 27th 2025, to be held at the NREL campus in Golden, CO, with virtual introduction meetings on the 12th and 18th. Open Hackathons are multi-day, hands-on events designed to facilitate...
The UCAR Software Engineering Assembly's Improving Scientific Software Conference is now accepting abstracts for our 2025 event which will take place April 7-10, 2025 at NSF NCAR's Center Green Campus and virtually. The theme of ISS 2025 is From Legacy to Leading-Edge: Transforming Software Design in Science to Meet Tomorrow’s Challenges. As always, we welcome anyone with an interest in improvi...
The Quasar tape-based archive system will be down for maintenance Monday, 12/16, from 8am-5pm for a software upgrade. During this time data migrations to or from tape will not occur, and users will not be able to access the Quasar Globus endpoint.