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.

No system downtimes for week of June 27 - July 1

June 27, 2022

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

CISL adds new capability for Casper GPU jobs

June 24, 2022

CISL has augmented PBS with a capability that allows users to launch NVIDIA’s Multi-Process Service (MPS) on the Casper cluster, enabling GPU applications to process more than one CUDA kernel concurrently on a V100 GPU. The same capability will be available for the A100 GPUs on the Derecho system. The new Using NVIDIA MPS in Casper GPU jobs documentation page provides details and an example of ...

All Cheyenne and Casper users invited to July 5 user group meeting

June 24, 2022

All users of the Cheyenne and Casper systems are invited to the NCAR HPC User Group (NHUG) monthly meeting from 9 to 10 a.m. MDT on Tuesday, July 5. To contribute to the agenda or submit questions for the next meeting, please visit Slido, where you can also upvote topics and questions submitted by your peers. NHUG meetings are structured to encourage you to ask questions and voice concerns and...

No system downtimes for week of June 21-24

June 21, 2022

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

Next tutorial in GPU series is June 30

June 17, 2022

Registration is open for another session in a series of workshops and tutorials on GPU computing. “Multi-GPU Programming, Part 1” will be on Thursday, June 30, at 10 a.m. MDT. Please use this form to register by June 26 if you plan to attend and have not already registered for the series. The series of one-hour sessions is for scientists, software engineers, and students in the Earth system sc...

New tool for license use info: licstatus

June 17, 2022

Users can now run licstatus to get a quick report on license status for software such as MATLAB tools and toolboxes and Intel and PGI compilers. As noted in our revised License use guidelines, in addition to replacing the now-deprecated “licstats,” the new tool reports how many licenses you're using, the total number of licenses in use, and the total number of licenses.