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2026 International HPC Summer School Applications Open

January 20, 2026

Applications for the 2026 International HPC Summer School in Perth, Australia are now open. The program will be held July 12- July 17 2026 and school fees, travel, meals, plus lodging support is provided to all successful applicants. The summer school will familiarize the best students in computational sciences with major state-of-the-art aspects of HPC and Big Data Analytics for a variety of ...

Call for Presentations: Chameleon User Meeting 2026

January 16, 2026

Submit your proposals to present in Boulder, CO at NSF NCAR's Mesa Lab! The Sixth Chameleon User Meeting will be held Wednesday, April 15 to Thursday, April 16, at the Mesa Lab in Boulder. This year's theme is computer science research and education in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Researchers and educators using Chameleon are invited to submit presentation proposa...

On Wed. 1/28, join NSF NCAR and CISL for the AMS Town Hall, happening in-person in Houston

January 16, 2026

On Wednesday, January 28, from 12:15 to 1:15 pm CT, join NSF NCAR’s Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) for an AMS Town Hall, held in-person in Houston at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS26). The event is entitled: “NSF NCAR’s Advanced Computing, Data Services, and New AI Ecosystem Road Map for Earth System Science.” The event’s program is...

Join us for NHUG January Meeting: Running pre-trained AI models on Casper and More!

January 15, 2026

The next NCAR HPC User Group (NHUG) meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 20, 2025, at 1:00 PM MST. We invite all NCAR HPC users to join! This month’s agenda will include: • Upcoming workshops and relevant opportunities • Upcoming Outages and New Casper Login Nodes • Modern Python package management with Pixi and uv • Running pre-trained AI models on Casper To add this meeting to your ca...

2026 NCAR / NOAA / NLR Open Hackathon Applications Open

January 9, 2026

The 2026 NCAR / NOAA / NLR Open Hackathon is now accepting applications. Scheduled May 5th to 7th, the Open Hackathon will be a hybrid event, with virtual introduction meetings held on April 21st and 28th, when teams will be first introduced with expert mentors from National Labs, the computational science community, and NVIDIA. The hybrid event will be held in Boulder, CO, at the campus of NSF...

New podcast alert: “The Air We Share”

January 8, 2026

In December, Friends of the National Center officially launched “The Air We Share,” a new podcast dedicated to the people whose curiosity helped shape the science, culture, and legacy of UCAR, NSF NCAR, and UCP. In its debut season, “The Air We Share” explores the theme of curiosity—the spark that has driven groundbreaking research and collaboration for decades. Each episode features retired st...