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Register by May 26 for the June Pythia Cook-off hackathon!

May 15, 2024

Registration is open for the 2024 Pythia Cook-off. This annual, NSF-funded hackathon for Cookbook development will grow participants’ Python coding skills and expand Pythia Cookbooks for the open-source, open-science community. Also consider registering to lead a small breakout group! Join the hackathon online via Zoom, or in-person at the NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder, June 11–14, 2024. Registrati...

May 28 tutorial introduces new users to NCAR supercomputing

May 14, 2024

A CISL Consulting Services Group (CSG) tutorial from 1:30pm to 3:00 p.m. MDT on Tuesday, May 28, will introduce new users to the Derecho high-performance computing system and the Casper cluster for data analysis, visualization, and machine learning. Topics that CSG’s Brett Neuman will cover include: • What HPC systems are available at NCAR and how to access them • Basics of job submission in ...

No system downtimes for week of May 13 - 17

May 10, 2024

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

University instructors: Use NSF NCAR computing resources in your university courses

May 9, 2024

Do you teach a university class? Consider applying for a classroom allocation on Derecho. As part of NSF NCAR’s mission to support atmospheric science and education, faculty and instructors at any two- or four-year U.S. institution can use NSF NCAR HPC and analysis resources in their courses in Earth systems science and related areas. Classroom allocations can also be used for shorter-term t...

NASEM - Enabling US Leadership in Artificial Intelligence for WeatherMaintenance

April 30, 2024

The National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC), will be holding its Spring 2024 meeting May 13th 8:30am to 2:30pm MT in a hybrid format from Washington DC on “Enabling US Leadership in Artificial Intelligence for Weather” with draft agenda here. This meeting will provide an overview of the current landscape of weather and AI ...

HPC Systems Downtime May 7-8 for PBS Upgrade and Filesystem Maintenance

April 30, 2024

All CISL HPC systems will be down for scheduled maintenance May 7-8 deploy an updated version of the PBS batch scheduling system across all resources and perform necessary file system maintenance. During this time, all Derecho and Casper compute nodes will be unavailable. Login nodes will be unavailable at the beginning of the outage window in order to allow for file system maintenance. Schedu...