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Derecho Cooling Unit Maintenance - April 1, 2025

March 18, 2025

Derecho compute nodes will be unavailable Tuesday, April 1st to replace a faulty cooling unit, consistent with our first Tuesday of the month maintenance window. Derecho login nodes will be rebooted and briefly unavailable during the maintenance period. All other HPC resources will remain available. PBS scheduler reservations will be put in place prior to the maintenance window, and all queue...

Reminder: Apply by next Monday for a deep dive into deep learning!

March 12, 2025

The deadline is right around the corner for Deep Learning for Science School at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Apply here by next Monday, March 31. Applications are open to advanced graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, academics, domain scientists, and engineers. The course, a five-day immersive summer program, takes place Monday, June 23 to Friday, June 27, bringing...

Join a free lecture at Longmont Museum, “Keeping an eye on the sun’s magnetism”

March 12, 2025

On Thursday, March 27, from 6:00 to 7:30 pm MT, join the hybrid lecture, “Keeping an Eye on the Sun’s Magnetism,” with scientist Rebecca Centeno Elliott. While the Sun appears still to the human eye, its atmosphere is actually alive and riddled with activity known as Space Weather. This activity puts our increasingly vulnerable technological society at risk. Thanks to the magnifying power of ...

Join a free hybrid lecture on aircraft de-icing and winter flight safety

March 12, 2025

On Wednesday, March 26, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm MT, join the lecture, “There’s something on the wing … something green,” with scientist Scott Landolt. While it may sound straight out of an episode of The Twilight Zone, spraying a green- or orange-colored fluid onto the wings and other parts of an aircraft is an ordinary occurrence during winter weather conditions to de-ice aircraft before takeof...

ISS 2025: Program and registration are available now

March 12, 2025

The online program is now available for the 2025 Improving Scientific Software Conference. Our 4-day program includes a number of talks and two tutorials, along with two keynote presentations (details to be announced soon). We would like to thank all who submitted an abstract to this year's event! Remember that registration is open now for the conference, which will take place April 7-10, 2025...

Deadline extended! Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC)

March 7, 2025

The deadline to apply for this program has been extended to Sunday, March 16, 11:59PM AOE or Anywhere on Earth time (which translates to 4:59 AM on Monday, March 17, in Mountain Time). Doctoral students, postdocs, and early career scientists interested in conducting computational science and engineering research on large-scale computers are invited to apply for the 13th annual ATPESC program. ...