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NASA Earth Sciences & UW Hackweek
April 12, 2024

The eScience Institute at the University of Washington is inviting applications for their annual hackweek program Aug 19-23rd in Seattle, WA. This year will feature projects using data from the NASA ICESat-2 and SnowEx missions and include training on Machine Learning in the Geosciences (NSF GeoSMART).  Hackweeks are designed to support academic students and researchers at the graduate level a...

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Where to run small, CPU-only jobs?
April 11, 2024

CISL recommends running small jobs that use only CPUs on the Casper cluster’s high-throughput computing (HTC) nodes. Casper has 64 HTC nodes specifically for running small batch jobs. It also has: • Shared resources rather than dedicated Derecho nodes. • More available memory, plus NVMe swap for overflow and local storage. • Direct PBS cross-submission from Derecho.  See Starting Casper Jobs f...

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Reminder: Acknowledge NSF NCAR and CISL support in your publications
April 11, 2024

Acknowledge the support of NSF NCAR and CISL computing when you publish your research results. This helps ensure continued support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and other sources of funding for future high-performance computing systems.  It is also one of the requirements of receiving an allocation, as was noted in your award letter. The reporting requirements and recommended wordin...

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April 16th NHUG Meeting: Harnessing AI-Powered Coding in VS Code & NCAR HPC Systems Updates
April 10, 2024

All NCAR HPC users are invited to the April 16th NHUG meeting! The next NHUG meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 16th, 2024, from 1 to 2 p.m. MST, and we invite all NCAR HPC users to attend. We will have a demo/presentation on Using AI in VS Code for Developing Code, share upcoming relevant opportunities of interest to the community, and share some updates regarding our HPC systems. To ad...

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2023 AGU Informatics Leptoukh Award Lecture: From Petabytes to Insights
April 8, 2024

The 2023 AGU Informatics Leptoukh Award Lecture by Rahul Ramachandran (NASA), rescheduled during AGU 2023, will be given as a webinar this Thu April 11th 12-1pm MT. A partial abstract is below or view the registration page for complete details. Earth Science faces the challenge of converting petabytes of data into actionable insights. Managing Big Data involves addressing the vast, multidimens...

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No system downtimes for week of April 8 - 12
April 5, 2024

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

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