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Register now for a deep learning training opportunity next week!

February 21, 2025

NERSC and NVIDIA will be offering a hybrid Deep Learning at Scale Training from Monday, March 3 to Tuesday, March 4. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is a national lab with similar HPC hardware to NSF NCAR’s Derecho. This training will help users explore distributed training for deep learning models on high-performance computing systems (specifically Perlmutter)....

Apply by March 15 to the LEAP summer research programs for undergrads and grads

February 21, 2025

Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics (LEAP) is an NSF Science Technology Center launched in 2021. Applications are now open for its two 10-week summer research programs for undergrads and grads, taking place from Tuesday, May 27 to Friday, August 1, with five research projects based in New York or Boulder. The application deadline for both is Saturday, March 15, 2025, a...

SEA Panel on Language Interoperability on February 26

February 20, 2025

The UCAR Software Engineering Assembly will hold a panel of lightning talks followed by a discussion on language interoperability at 3 PM MT on Wednesday February 26, 2025. The discussion can include more traditional Fortran-C/C++ interoperability, but we're especially interested in interoperability of compiled codes with interpreted languages such as Python and Julia. For example, the Earth S...

Want to learn more about NSF NCAR? “101” manual now available

February 20, 2025

How well do you know NSF NCAR and UCAR? Are you fully aware of what all the different labs, programs, research, and opportunities have to offer? Whether you are a newcomer or a seasoned expert, download this year’s updated “101” manual to learn more. This information-packed booklet briefly reviews the organization’s history, and describes the focus of each lab and program. To provide sugges...

Registration is now open for ISS 2025 Conference

February 19, 2025

The Improving Scientific Software (ISS) Conference committee is pleased to announce that registration is now open for our 2025 Conference, taking place April 7-10 in Boulder, Colorado. ISS brings together software engineers, scientists, developers - any individuals with an interest in scientific software design - to share novel experiences and best practices, develop connections across division...

All NCAR HPC users are invited to join the February 19th NHUG meeting!

February 18, 2025

The next NHUG meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, February 19, 2025, at 11 AM MT, and we invite all NCAR HPC users to attend. In this month's meeting, Dr. John Schreck will introduce the CREDIT model and share his experience in scaling AI/ML applications on Derecho GPUs. Additionally, Dr. Brian Vanderwende will talk about upcoming software changes on Derecho and Casper and we will provide upd...