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Funded Conference Opportunities for Students

March 9, 2026

Undergraduate and graduate students interested in the intersection of Earth system sciences and computational sciences are encouraged to apply to the following student facing programs for major upcoming conferences. Each offers registration and travel support for accepted applicants. 1. SC26 Student Program • November 15-20th, 2026 in Chicago, IL • The SuperComputing26 (SC26) Conference is...

Summer Learning Programs for AI and Computational Science

March 9, 2026

Three community programs listed below offer learning and training opportunities for students and early career researchers interested in expanding their skills in computational sciences. The first program is also accepting applications for paid teaching assistant roles. 1. Computational Tools for Climate Science Course • July 13-24th, virtual • Application deadline: March 15th, 2026 • A N...

GeoAI on HPC: From single-task paradigm to multiple-task Geoscience Foundation Models

March 5, 2026

Purdue University, a UCAR member, is offering a training event on the evolving landscape of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) on High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments offered through the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing. The event is scheduled from 11am to 2:30pm MT on Friday March 6th and held virtually. The workshop will begin with foundational concepts of GeoAI, introduc...

March 4th Deadline - University Large Allocation Requests

February 25, 2026

CISL is now accepting large-scale allocation requests from university-based researchers for the Derecho system as well as the Casper data analysis and visualization cluster with a submission deadline of March 4, 2026. We are actively seeking projects that can take advantage of Derecho’s 328 NVIDIA A100 GPUs. CISL accepts requests from university researchers for large-scale allocations every six...

km-Scale Global Modelling Summit 2026 - Abstracts Open

February 23, 2026

WarmWorld and related projects from across Europe and the world are organizing the km-Scale Global Modelling Summit 2026 to take stock of the rapid and exciting scientific and technical developments associated with the development of the next generation km-scale global models. The summit will take place in Hamburg, Germany, on 20-24 July 2026, and will bring together experts from the domains o...

All HPC Resources Scheduled Outage: Tuesday, March 3rd

February 23, 2026

All HPC resources, including Derecho, Casper, and JupyterHub, will be unavailable on Tuesday, March 3rd from 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM MST. This downtime will facilitate Derecho cooling system maintenance as well as security patches and software updates. The storage systems, Campaign Storage and Destor (Derecho Scratch), will also be unavailable during the outage. We will update the default ncarenv ...