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Read the article, “Simulated forests, real trees: mapping modeled data onto a living, breathing ecosystem”

April 7, 2025

A recent study tapped into the power of CISL supercomputers Cheyenne and Derecho to create virtual forests and provide valuable insights into the inner workings of these vital ecosystems. By employing advanced numerical simulations, researchers effectively separated the contributions of plants from those of the soil, a challenging task in real-world measurements. The team pioneered a methodol...

Apply for International hpc4climate Summer School—Travel grant due 4/15

April 7, 2025

The 2025 WarmWorld-ESiWACE3 Summer School will be held in Lauenburg near Hamburg, Germany, and is hosting the 2025 hpc4climate Summer School from Monday, July 28 to Thursday, August 7th. The program invites Master’s students and early PhD students in Computer Science, Data Science, Techno-mathematics, Applied mathematics, Meteorology, and Climate Science with programming skills and an interest ...

New in Project Pythia: Earth Observation Data Science Cookbook

March 31, 2025

Project Pythia proudly announces the addition of the "Earth Observation Data Science Cookbook," a valuable resource contributed by the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation at TU Wien (Austria’s Vienna University of Technology). This cookbook, tailored for the university community, provides practical examples of Pangeo-based workflows applied to real-world Earth Observation (EO) data science...

Register by Monday 3/31 for FROGS, an Open GeoScience Hackathon

March 25, 2025

LinkedEarth is hosting an Open GeoScience Hackathon from Wednesday, May 28, through Friday, May 30, to be held in Marina del Rey, CA. This training event focuses on packaging research software for the geosciences. The intended audience are researchers at various stages of their careers interested in sharing their open science code in the form of an open source package, or in contributing to ope...

3/25/2025 - New Casper HTC Nodes Available

March 25, 2025

The Casper cluster now has 64 new high-throughput computing (HTC) nodes, which are for batch jobs that require the use of one full node or less. The new nodes are prioritized by the job scheduler and will fill before placing you on older generation HTC nodes. New documentation provides details on the new node specifications and also how to target specific nodes on Casper using PBS. New HTC nod...

Join the Digital Earths Global Hackathon in May at NSF NCAR

March 19, 2025

This year, NSF NCAR will host the US-Central “node” of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Digital Earths Global Hackathon. This in-person-only event will take place from Monday, May 12 to Friday, May 16, at the Foothills Laboratory in Boulder, CO. Participants will gather in-person to collaborate on hacking, bug-fixing, and learning in a dynamic, hands-on environment. This is a globa...