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Register for the Open Accelerated Computing Summit. Open Hackathon deadline early December.

November 26, 2024

Registration is open for the virtual and free to attend the 2024 Open Accelerated Computing Summit to be held Dec. 10–12. If you have conflicts due to AGU, keep in mind that registrants will be sent session recordings after the summit. Some sessions that may be of interest to the NSF NCAR community include: • How Open Hackathons Facilitated a Large Positive Impact on the ExaWind Project (Jon R...

NSF NCAR researcher part of team that wins 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling

November 22, 2024

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling to a 12-member team for their project “Boosting Earth System Model Outputs and Saving PetaBytes in Their Storage Using Exascale Climate Emulators.” The award recognizes innovative parallel computing contributions toward solving the global climate crisis. Dr. Allison H. Baker of the Co...

Join an upcoming lecture on climate research, “Geography matters!”

November 21, 2024

On Wednesday, December 4, at 5:30 to 7:00 pm MST, join an Explorer Series lecture, “Geography matters! Meeting the challenges of climate resilience with geospatial technology” with NSF NCAR scientists Jennifer Boehnert and Olga Wilhelmi. In this lecture, the hosts will discuss why geography matters in understanding and reducing weather and climate risks. They will discuss the role of Geograph...

Eleven UCAR and NSF NCAR researchers receive awards from AMS and AGU

November 21, 2024

Nine researchers at NSF NCAR and UCAR, as well as a UCAR trustee, and an NSF NCAR distinguished scholar, have been recognized with fellowships and awards from two prestigious Earth and space science organizations. The eleven awardees are being honored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) for their contributions to the field through innovative r...

Thanksgiving Holiday Week - Slowed Response Times

November 18, 2024

The Research Computing Help Desk will be closed on November 28-29 as NSF NCAR observes the Thanksgiving Holiday. Support Tickets submitted during this timeframe will be dispositioned beginning Monday, December 2. Systems Engineers will be monitoring all HPC resources during the holiday week, emerging issues will be triaged or deferred depending on the severity of the impact.

All NCAR HPC users are invited to join the November 19th NHUG meeting!

November 18, 2024

The next NHUG meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 1-2 pm MT, and we invite all NCAR HPC users to attend. In this month's meeting, we will hear about two featured projects. Dr. Rajesh Kumar will discuss running air quality models, including WRF-Chem and CMAQ, on Derecho. Dr. Peter Blossey and Sami Turbeville will share their experience running the Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM ...