CISL Daily Bulletin

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No system downtimes for week of September 11 - 15

September 8, 2023

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

Transitioning to Derecho Training - Recording and Materials Published

September 7, 2023

Recently, training events were offered to the NCAR HPC community on “Introducing Derecho - NCAR's New Supercomputer and Migrating from Cheyenne”. A recording plus presentation slidedeck has now been published for community Derecho users to reference. Beyond referencing this archived material and current HPC documentation made available at arc.ucar.edu, users are still encouraged to submit supp...

System downtimes for week of September 4 - 8

September 1, 2023

There is scheduled maintenance on Derecho Tuesday 9/5 at 5:00 am though 5:00 pm None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

New Casper Resources Available

August 31, 2023 Updated: September 1, 2023

Throughout the summer, CISL has been working on augmenting Casper hardware resources and crafting a new software stack to better match the Derecho environment. We are pleased to announce that 7 new GPGPU nodes are available on Casper, featuring NVIDIA A100 GPUs (with 80 GB of VRAM each) and AMD Milan CPUs. These nodes are very similar to Derecho GPU nodes, aside from the doubling of GPU memory....

Use NCAR computing resources in your university courses

September 1, 2023

As part of NCAR’s mission to support atmospheric science and education, faculty and instructors at any U.S. 2- and 4-year institution can use NCAR HPC and analysis resources in their courses in Earth system science and related areas. Classroom allocations can also be used for shorter-term training courses and workshops aimed at the university community with the goal of developing a skilled wo...

NCAR HPC users invited to September 5 user group meeting

August 31, 2023

All NCAR HPC users are invited to the NCAR HPC User Group (NHUG) monthly meeting from 9 to 10 a.m. MDT on Tuesday, September 5. CISL staff will share updates regarding Derecho and upcoming Casper changes including the new Casper OS. Early Derecho users will also share their experience about the new machine. To contribute to the agenda or submit questions for the meeting, please visit Slido, w...