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Join “A frozen sea in flux,” a talk on Arctic Ocean ecosystems

May 22, 2025

On Wednesday, June 4, 2025, from 7:00 to 8:30 pm MT, join the NSF NCAR Explorer Series for a seminar entitled "A frozen sea in flux: Understanding changing Arctic Ocean ecosystems through art and science." This event will feature scientist Courtney Payne from the Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory (CGD) at NSF NCAR, and artist Anna Lindemann from the University of Connecticut. Phytoplankto...

Join a seminar about AI in geophysical signal measurement

May 22, 2025

On Tuesday, June 3, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm MT, join NSF NCAR’s Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) and Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) for a joint seminar. The talk, with EOL’s Dr. Jothiram Vivekanandan (Vivek), is entitled "Artificial Intelligence Geophysical Signal Measurement." This presentation will explore how artificial intelligence, specifically Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural ne...

NSF NAIRR Hackathon Readiness Virtual Bootcamp

May 21, 2025

Application deadline: May 25, 2025. Register Here The OpenACC Organization is offering a series of Open Hackathons with NSF NAIRR resource partners to support the NSF National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot projects. To help prepare researchers to apply to the Open Hackathons, we are co-hosting the NAIRR Hackathon Readiness Bootcamp on June 5, 2025. Held jointly with...

All NCAR HPC users are invited to join the May NHUG meeting!

May 20, 2025

The next NHUG meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, May 20th, 2025, at 1 PM MT, and we invite all NCAR HPC users to attend. This month’s agenda will include: • Upcoming opportunities and upcoming extended outage • Casper System Changes: DNS transition & swap space deactivation for HTC jobs • Asynchronous I/O and optimized data compression workflow for running weather models – Haying Xu To add this...

Reminder: Major HPC Maintenance Beginning June 2

May 19, 2025

As previously announced, CISL staff will be performing necessary facility maintenance at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) beginning on June 2 to replace critical power and cooling systems which have reached their end service life. Because of the nature of this work, it will be necessary to shut down all Derecho compute nodes, the Quasar tape archive, and a portion of the Casper com...

Join a seminar about innovative ionospheric sensing techniques

May 15, 2025

On Wednesday, May 28, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm MT, NSF NCAR’s High Altitude Observatory (HAO) will host a seminar entitled "Ionospheric Sensing Using High-Rate GNSS Reflectometry and Occultation Measurements from Low Earth Orbit." The speaker will be Dr. Yang Wang, a visiting faculty member in the Ann and H. J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at the University of Colorado Boulder...