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Deadline September 10 for large university allocation requests

July 24, 2024 Updated: August 5, 2024

CISL is now accepting large-scale allocation requests from university-based researchers for the Derecho system as well as the Casper data analysis and visualization cluster. Those requests are due September 10. We are actively seeking projects that can take advantage of Derecho’s 328 NVIDIA A100 GPUs. At the CISL HPC Allocations Panel (CHAP) fall 2024 meeting, CISL will allocate up to 500 mill...

Did your CISL-powered research just get published? We want to hear from you!

July 31, 2024

Have you recently published a paper on research conducted using Derecho or Cheyenne? Then the CISL Communications Staff would like to showcase your work to the wider world. We are seeking recently-published Earth systems science research conducted using CISL’s computing resources. We’d like to spotlight this work for an upcoming series of informative, engaging science news stories to be publis...

Read article: NSF NCAR becomes an official partner for the Chameleon testbed

July 31, 2024

Chameleon is an experimental testbed for computer science research. Partnering with NSF NCAR and the University of Chicago, Chameleon has served over 10,000 users and contributed to more than 700 research publications. Chameleon has now secured an additional $12 million in NSF funding to roll out its next four-year phase. A significant highlight of this phase is the formal integration of NSF N...

NASEM - Nominate Experts for Climate Change and AI Roundtable

July 26, 2024

The National Academies’ Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change will foster ongoing discussions, shared learning, and nimble coordination around emerging issues related to AI and climate change. Nominations for experts, either yourself or colleagues, are being called to participate in this activity. The call closes on October 1, 2024 at 11:59 (ET). Learn more about this opport...

Last week of SIParCS: final presentations and poster symposium

July 26, 2024

[Image] The last week of the 2024 Summer Internships in Parallel Computation Science (SIParCS) is upon us, with the program concluding next Friday, August 2. The students’ final presentations will take place on Tuesday, July 30, and Wednesday, July 31 from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm in the Mesa Lab Seminar Room—view the schedule here. Guests are welcome to attend in-person, while others can watch the...

NAIRR Pilot seeks AI-related proposals focusing on new researchers and classroom education

July 24, 2024

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot is expanding its reach in two important ways, and seeks proposals from the community to address these new areas. The NAIRR Pilot—associated with the EducateAI initiative to advance education for the future AI workforce—aims to broaden and diversify access to AI resources and training for t...