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Join a tutorial on visualizing geoscience data with Python at AMS

December 18, 2023

Join NCAR's ViSR and GeoCAT teams at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting for a tutorial entitled “Visualizing 2D and 3D Geoscience Data in Python.” You can register directly for the AMS tutorial, to be held January 27, 2024. NCAR’s GeoCAT and VAPOR groups are committed to open science by developing open source, scalable, multi-platform data analysis and visualization tools th...

No system downtimes for week of December 18 - 22

December 18, 2023

None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, Derecho, GLADE, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

Initializing modules in C shell scripts on Derecho

December 15, 2023

You may have noticed that the “module” command is not always available in your (t)csh shell scripts, including PBS batch jobs. This issue is the result of differences in the way the shell is initialized in SUSE Linux. We have developed a back-end fix for the problem, which is deployed already on Casper. The fix will also be deployed on Derecho during the next scheduled outage. Until the fix is...

No system downtimes for week of December 11 - 15

December 8, 2023

None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, Derecho, GLADE, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

AI for Science Bootcamp - NCAR/NOAA/NREL

December 7, 2023

Together with NVIDIA and the OpenACC organization, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will host a virtual Open AI for Science Bootcamp starting February 6 and concluding February 7, 2024. The AI for Science Bootcamp provides a step-by-step overview of the fun...

Cheyenne Countdown: Time to say your final farewells to Cheyenne.

December 7, 2023

Cheyenne users now have less than a month to say goodbye to Cheyenne. Cheyenne will be retired on the last day of the year: December 31, 2023. This means that all users must wrap up their projects on Cheyenne by that time. That means it’s a great time to transition your computing projects to Derecho. Even more importantly, if Cheyenne experiences a crash or power loss from this point forward...