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This Thursday: Join an Open Call with Thomas Hauser

June 24, 2024

On Thursday, June 27, at 11:00 am MT, join EDUCAUSE for a Research Computing and Data Community Group Open Call with guest speaker Thomas Hauser, Director of NSF NCAR. The call is entitled “Advancing Earth System Science through Research Computing and Data Services at NSF NCAR.” EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association that seeks to advance the strategic use of technology and data in higher educ...

No system downtimes for week of June 24 - 28

June 21, 2024

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

Read all about MPAS, the next-gen atmospheric model

June 21, 2024

The Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS), developed by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), is a flexible, next-generation atmospheric model that accurately models regional and global weather. MPAS helps bridge the gap between high-resolution regional weather modeling and low-resolution global climate modeling. In a new NCAR News articl...

Watch a free video series: “Intro to AI-Driven Science on Supercomputers”

June 20, 2024

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facility, has posted a free video training series to its YouTube channel. The course is entitled “Intro to AI-Driven Science on Supercomputers.” The eight-part course, part of an annual series, aims to teach attendees to “use leading-edge supercomputers to develop and apply artificial intelligence solutions for...

CSG/Help Desk closed for Juneteenth

June 18, 2024

Please note that the Consulting Services Group (CSG) and the Help Desk will be closed Wednesday, June 19th, for Juneteenth. The Help Desk will reopen Thursday, June 20th to resume its normal hours (7:30 AM to 5:00 PM Mountain Time, Monday to Friday). If you need help during this time, please submit a ticket to help@ucar.edu, or call 303-497-2000 to reach the Cheyenne Network Operations Cente...

All NCAR HPC users are invited to join the June NHUG meeting!

June 17, 2024

The next NHUG meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 1-2 pm MDT, and we invite all NCAR HPC users to attend. Agenda Highlights: • Upcoming Relevant Opportunities & Announcements • New Casper GPU Nodes • Updates from June Unexpected Outages • Real-time, medium-range, convection-allowing ensemble forecasts with global variable-resolution models by Craig Schwartz To add this meetin...