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 downtime scheduled for week of August 16-20

August 16, 2021

No maintenance planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, HPSS, JupyterHub, Quasar, and Stratus.

Image from a Hurricane Odile simulation in the CISL Visualization Gallery

Help for researchers visualizing their data

August 13, 2021

Researchers who want help visualizing data to demonstrate the results of their scientific computing can request expert assistance and collaboration from CISL. This service is available to researchers using specialized applications on data analysis and visualization resources that CISL manages. CISL visualization staff have special expertise in CISL-developed software such as VAPOR and NCL but a...

Less than 8 weeks until HPSS is decommissioned

August 10, 2021

Users are reminded that the HPSS tape archive will be decommissioned on October 1. This means file owners have less than 8 weeks left to access their files. Though time is growing short, you can still accomplish a fair amount of file-copying. At present, the system is not very busy and enough bandwidth is available to allow for quick turnaround. If you need guidance in getting started, you can ...

No downtime scheduled for August 9-13

August 6, 2021 Updated: August 9, 2021

No downtime scheduled for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, JupyterHub, or HPSS.

Deadline September 14 for university large-scale allocation requests

August 9, 2021

CISL is now accepting large-scale allocation requests from university-based researchers for Cheyenne resources and the Casper data analysis and visualization cluster. Those requests are due September 14. As recently announced, delivery of the new Derecho system has been delayed by four months because of the global chip shortage. As a result, the first large university allocation requests for De...

We’re getting a makeover!

August 6, 2021

You’ll see a lot of changes in the coming weeks as you visit CISL online. Here’s a quick look at what’s up: • The CISL website, which hosts news and information about our activities, is getting a brand-new look and feel. • Supercomputer user documentation will be moving to the Advanced Research Computing portal, joining the Daily Bulletin, system status reports, support links, and more. • Staff...