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June 3rd Update: Major HPC Facility Maintenance

June 3, 2025

NWSC Facility Maintenance is continuing throughout the week. Initial shutdown activities were completed yesterday. We experienced a number of challenges with temporary cooling units that have impacted our original system continuity plans. At this point home, work, Campaign Storage file systems remain available and can be accessed through the Casper login nodes. Currently, no Casper compute ...

5/19/25 - Reminder: Major HPC Maintenance Beginning June 2

June 2, 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 the August 2025 Pythia Cook-off Hackathon in Boulder, CO

May 30, 2025

Project Pythia is offering its annual Cook-off hackathon for creating and maintaining Pythia Cookbooks. The event will take place from Tuesday, August 5 to Friday, August 8, 2025, in-person at the NSF NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder, CO. Pythia Cookbooks are crowd-sourced collections of domain-specific tutorials and exemplar workflows, building upon our Pythia Foundations tutorials, and supported by...

Democratizing data through the NSF NCAR Data Commons Initiative

May 30, 2025

Exciting news: the cross-lab effort to implement the NSF NCAR Data Commons is entering its final phase, with major milestones expected to be complete by fall 2025. This strategic initiative is transforming how we manage, integrate, and share data across the organization to support AI/ML readiness, interdisciplinary collaboration, and long-term scientific discovery. What is it? An ongoing effor...

Happening soon! Join a virtual Town Hall presented by NSF NCAR.

May 28, 2025

On Wednesday, May 28, from 9:00 AM to 10:00 am MT, NSF NCAR is presenting a virtual Town Hall. The talk is hosted by the American Meteorological Society (AMS). Discover the latest in NSF NCAR cyberinfrastructure, explore future plans, and share your feedback. This Town Hall will highlight new developments at NSF NCAR, which supports Earth system science by providing computing and data resource...

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...