CISL Daily Bulletin

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NOAA/NCAR/NREL Open Hackathon - Apply Now

September 28, 2023

Together with NVIDIA and the OpenACC organization, NOAA, NCAR, and NREL will host a hybrid Open Hackathon starting February 21 (virtual intro) with hybrid hackathon days February 27th, 28th, and 29th held at NOAA’s DSRC in Boulder. Open Hackathons are multi-day, intensive hands-on events designed to help computational scientists and researchers port, accelerate and optimize their applications ...

HPC Systems Downtime October 23-27 to Refresh Casper and Perform Filesystem Migrations

September 25, 2023

All CISL HPC systems will be down for scheduled maintenance the week of October 23-27 to refresh software operating systems and perform filesystem migrations in preparation for Cheyenne retirement at the end of this year. CISL engineers will relocate a number of filesystem datasets during this outage - including /glade/work - to new hardware. We will update the operating system on Casper node...

No system downtimes for week of September 25 - 29

September 22, 2023

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

Register for the Open Accelerated Computing Summit

September 22, 2023

The virtual Open Accelerated Computing Summit 2023 is October 4-5 offers free registration and convenes scientists across National labs, research institutions, and universities to discuss accelerated computing and parallel programming research advanced by #OpenHackathons or utilizing #OpenACC. Highlighted talks of potential interest to the NCAR community include: • GPU Implementation and Optim...

Reminder: Migrate Your Work from Cheyenne to Derecho

September 18, 2023

Researchers using the Cheyenne system are reminded and encouraged to migrate their work to Derecho as soon as possible. The Cheyenne system will be decommissioned at the end of 2023, in just over three months. As you reach a scientifically useful break point in your work, you can transfer your allocations and transition your work from Cheyenne to Derecho. The Consulting Services Group is avail...

NCAR Nominated for three HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards

September 15, 2023

HPCwire, the online magazine for the high-performance computing community, has announced the nominations for this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards, and NCAR has been recognized for activities in three categories. All HPCwire subscribers are eligible to vote, and voting closes on October 1. NCAR staff cannot vote for NCAR nominations, but you can encourage your non-NCAR colleagues to vote! Xingyin...