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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 ...

How to get help using NSF NCAR supercomputers

May 31, 2024

Are you a researcher or other individual who needs help working with NSF NCAR’s high-performance computing systems? You can get expert help a number of different ways, from submitting a help ticket anytime, to emailing, calling on the phone, or even scheduling an appointment with a CISL supercomputing consultant. For details, go to ncar.pub/HPC-user-support on the NSF NCAR/CISL Advanced Researc...

June Derecho Maintenance Rescheduled for 6/11

May 29, 2024

Derecho’s June scheduled maintenance will occur on Tuesday, 6/11 from approximately 7am to 7pm. This outage is necessary to service cooling system components and has been scheduled in conjunction with vendor availability. During this time, all Derecho login and compute nodes are expected to be unavailable. Shared file systems will remain available throughout the maintenance. Scheduler reser...