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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...

How to get help using NSF NCAR supercomputers

April 29, 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...

No system downtimes for week of Apr. 29 - May 3

April 26, 2024

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

NHUG Blog: Energy Accounting on Derecho

April 26, 2024

Have you ever wondered how much energy your compute job is using? CISL has recently deployed new energy metrics for PBS jobs on Derecho that provide insight into energy consumption across nodes, CPU, memory, and GPU devices. Learn more about these metrics and how to query them in this new NCAR HPC User Group Blog post. Once you have familiarized yourself with these data, please consider sharin...