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How to Reduce Charges for Single-processor Derecho Batch Jobs

June 11, 2024

The jobs of concern here are Derecho batch jobs that are run with directive prefix #PBS -l select=1:ncpus=1 in the main queue. In many cases it may be better to run them in the develop queue. It will be helpful if you use the qhist command on some of your finished jobs to see if they are amenable to running in the develop queue. For example, command qhist -j 4701972 -d 5 -l will show you the...

New SIParCS students start their summer internships at CISL

June 5, 2024 Updated: June 7, 2024

On May 20, 16 new interns embarked on summer programs at CISL, tackling challenging projects that involve machine learning, cloud insights, data assimilation, and more. These students are part of an annual CISL program called Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science, or SIParCS (pronounced “SIGH-parks”). The program will conclude with the students’ final presentations on Friday, A...

Reminder: June 6 SEA Open Discussion on Mentoring

June 4, 2024

Join the UCAR Software Engineering Assembly (SEA) this Thursday (June 6) at 1pm for a lightly-moderated discussion on mentorship across UCAR. Any discussion topics are welcome, as are all experience levels. We encourage you to share your experiences and hope to leverage this information to improve the experience for both mentors and mentees. We also strongly encourage our summer interns to par...

No system downtimes for week of June 3 - 7

May 31, 2024

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

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How to get help visualizing research data

May 31, 2024

Would you like assistance in visualizing data, so that you can better demonstrate the results of your scientific computing? Researchers can request expert assistance and collaboration from the Visualization Services and Research group (ViSR) at CISL. The ViSR team uses advanced 3D modeling and visualization tools to design infographics, animations, web interactives, and more. ViSR has produce...

Register for June 20 training, “From Jupyter Notebook to Web Server: Containerizing Interactive Visualizations”

May 31, 2024

This training is for NSF NCAR and UCAR staff that are interested in developing containers to serve scientific, Python-based interactive visualizations as web applications. This workshop guides participants through the process of transforming an interactive visualization from a Jupyter Notebook into a Python-based web server. Attendees will learn how to create and run a containerized version of ...