CISL Daily Bulletin


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HPC Systems Downtime May 7-8 for PBS Upgrade and Filesystem Maintenance
April 30, 2024

All CISL HPC systems will be down for scheduled maintenance May 7-8 deploy an updated version of the PBS batch scheduling system across all resources and perform necessary file system maintenance. During this time, all Derecho and Casper compute nodes will be unavailable. Login nodes will be unavailable at the beginning of the outage window in order to allow for file system maintenance. Schedu...

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How to get help using NSF NCAR supercomputers
April 29, 2024

Are you a researcher or other individual who needs help working with NSF NCAR’s high-performance computing systems? You can get expert help a number of different ways, from submitting a help ticket anytime, to emailing, calling on the phone, or even scheduling an appointment with a CISL supercomputing consultant. For details, go to ncar.pub/HPC-user-support on the NSF NCAR/CISL Advanced Researc...

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No system downtimes for week of Apr. 29 - May 3
April 26, 2024

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

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NHUG Blog: Energy Accounting on Derecho
April 26, 2024

Have you ever wondered how much energy your compute job is using? CISL has recently deployed new energy metrics for PBS jobs on Derecho that provide insight into energy consumption across nodes, CPU, memory, and GPU devices. Learn more about these metrics and how to query them in this new NCAR HPC User Group Blog post. Once you have familiarized yourself with these data, please consider sharin...

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Join Upcoming NSDF Webinar Featuring Thomas Hauser
April 24, 2024

On May 2, join a webinar hosted by National Science Data Fabric (NSDF) Distinguished Speaker Dr. Thomas Hauser, the director of the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL). Dr. Hauser will deliver a talk entitled “Advancing Earth System Science through Research Computing and Data Services at NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).”  The talk will discuss CISL’s co...

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No system downtimes for week of Apr. 22-26
April 22, 2024

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

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