CISL Daily Bulletin

The Daily Bulletin delivers news about CISL’s high-performance computing environment, training opportunities, scheduled maintenance, and other events of interest to the user community.

Systems downtime for September 6 - 10

September 7, 2021

None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, Glade, HPSS, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

Deadline extended to September 10 for university ASD proposals

September 2, 2021 Updated: September 3, 2021

The deadline for submitting university Accelerated Scientific Discovery (ASD) proposals for projects to run on Derecho has been extended to September 10. Derecho will become operational in the first half of 2022. See the ASD submission instructions for details. The ASD program is a unique opportunity for a small group of large-scale computational projects to have nearly exclusive use of the Der...

Deadline extended: University ASD proposal deadline now September 10

August 18, 2021 Updated: September 2, 2021

Proposals for university Accelerated Scientific Discovery (ASD) projects on Derecho and requests for large university allocations on Cheyenne are due soon: • ASD proposals for the Derecho system must be submitted by September 10. See the ASD submission instructions for details. • Large requests for Cheyenne allocations are due September 14. See the large allocation request instructions for more...

Less than 1 month until HPSS is decommissioned

September 1, 2021

Reminder! The HPSS tape archive will be decommissioned on October 1. This means file owners have less than a month left to access their files. Though time is growing short, you can still accomplish a fair amount of file-copying. At present, the system is not very busy and enough bandwidth is available to allow for quick turnaround. If you need guidance, start here. If you have questions, please...

Systems downtime for August 30-September 3

August 30, 2021

Quasar will be down for firmware updates from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm on August 31st. Nothing planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Store, JupyterHub, or Stratus.

Did you know? Two ways of sharing data with colleagues via Globus

August 26, 2021

Researchers who need to share large amounts of data with colleagues can do that a couple of different ways with the NCAR Data Sharing Service: By giving them easy access to files on the Campaign Storage file system or by sharing files short-term in a shared 50 TB space of their own. Suppose you have files on Campaign Storage. You can share them through a special “NCAR Campaign Storage" Globus e...