CISL Daily Bulletin

The Daily Bulletin delivers news about CISL’s high-performance computing environment, training opportunities, scheduled maintenance, and other events of interest to the user community.

Two of several different allocation request forms featured on the ARC portal.

Allocation requests now made through ARC portal

August 24, 2021

University researchers and NCAR labs can now submit new allocation requests and manage existing projects through the expanded NCAR Advanced Research Computing (ARC) portal. The addition of allocations to the portal is the latest step in bringing several CISL user-support services together in one place. Request forms are now in the same portal as the Daily Bulletin, high-performance computing (H...

Systems downtime for August 23-27

August 23, 2021

None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, Glade, HPSS, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

Tutorial August 25: Plotting with GeoCAT

August 20, 2021

The NCAR/UCAR virtual Python Tutorial Seminar Series continues Wednesday, August 25, with Plotting with GeoCAT at 1 p.m. MDT. See the NCAR Earth System Data Science Initiative blog for tutorial details and how to prepare.

Consulting Services Group will be in training August 23-26

August 19, 2021

CISL’s Consulting Services Group will be in all-day training classes from Monday, August 23, through Thursday, August 26, to prepare for NCAR’s next supercomputing system, Derecho. Response times for support tickets submitted via NCAR's Research Computing help desk will likely be longer than usual during this period. We appreciate your patience and cooperation throughout our training period.

WINS selects five women for SC21 networking program

August 18, 2021

Five new participants have been chosen to join the Women in IT Networking program at SC (WINS) program for SC21 - the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC) which will take place this year from November 14-19 in St. Louis, Missouri. WINS was developed in 2015 to help address the gender gap that exists in information technology, par...

Register now! Prepare for Derecho with NVIDIA GPU training

August 16, 2021

With the arrival of Derecho still months away, now’s a good time to learn more about GPU programming, accelerated machine learning, and porting to and optimizing for the NVIDIA hardware that will be featured on the new system (A100 GPUs). Throughout the year, NVIDIA partners with institutions to host bootcamps and hackathons with both HPC and AI focus. These events are open to all, and can be e...