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Join the ESDS Forum Monday July 22 to discuss ongoing enhancements to the Casper hardware & software environment

July 18, 2024

The next ESDS forum is coming up this Monday, July 22nd at 2 PM MT on Google Meet! CISL Staff will be giving an update focusing on Casper hardware and software enhancements. Over the past year CISL has begun adding additional resources to the Casper data analysis and visualization cluster across all node classes. We will overview the resources that have already been added - H100-equipped GPGP...

A composite image of many meteors during the Perseids over Dinosaur National Monument.

From now to September 1, you can watch the Perseid meteor shower

July 16, 2024

The annual Perseid shooting star display, which NASA calls “the best of the year,” will be active this year from July 14 to September 1—peaking in the hours before dawn during the overnight from Sunday, August 11 to Monday, August 12. During the Perseids’ peak, an onlooker can expect to see, on average, about one meteor a minute. 2024 promises to be an especially good year, however, because t...

Upcoming SEA Open Discussion on GPUs and Accelerators

July 9, 2024 Updated: July 10, 2024

Join the UCAR Software Engineering Assembly at 11 AM MT on Tuesday, August 13 for a lightly-moderated discussion on the use of GPUs or any other hardware accelerators across UCAR. Any discussion topics are welcome, as are all experience levels. We encourage you to share your experiences, good and bad. Some potential discussion topics include: • Current uses of GPUs and accelerators, includin...

HPC Systems Scheduled Maintenance - August 12-15

July 9, 2024

All HPC Resources will undergo maintenance the week of August 12th. Derecho, Casper, JupyterHub, GLADE file systems, data access nodes, and Globus transfers will all be unavailable for separate periods throughout the week. A primary maintenance activity will be the upgrade and expansion of the Bifrost high-performance network which interconnects all HPC resources. This maintenance is require...

Participate in a monthly Open OnDemand community meeting

July 9, 2024

Join a regular monthly meeting to discuss Open OnDemand, a browser-based portal for high-powered computing (HPC). Hosted by the community, this tips-and-tricks webinar shares best practices on all things Open OnDemand. The meetings take place on the first Thursday of every month at 11:00 am MT. The next meeting will be on Thursday, August 1, 2024. Recordings of previous events are available. ...

Join the July 18 RAL seminar on microscale weather simulations

July 9, 2024

On Wednesday, July 17, from 10:00 to 11:00 am MT, join NCAR’s Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) for a seminar with speaker Eloisa Raluy-Lopez of the University of Murcia (Spain). The talk is entitled “Investigating the Impact of Land Cover and Skin Forcings in Microscale Weather Simulations Across Urban-Rural Heterogeneous Landscapes.” This seminar will discuss large-scale land cover dat...