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Last week of SIParCS: final presentations and poster symposium

July 26, 2024

[Image] The last week of the 2024 Summer Internships in Parallel Computation Science (SIParCS) is upon us, with the program concluding next Friday, August 2. The students’ final presentations will take place on Tuesday, July 30, and Wednesday, July 31 from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm in the Mesa Lab Seminar Room—view the schedule here. Guests are welcome to attend in-person, while others can watch the...

NAIRR Pilot seeks AI-related proposals focusing on new researchers and classroom education

July 24, 2024

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot is expanding its reach in two important ways, and seeks proposals from the community to address these new areas. The NAIRR Pilot—associated with the EducateAI initiative to advance education for the future AI workforce—aims to broaden and diversify access to AI resources and training for t...

ByteBoost Cybertraining Workshop – Limited Spots Available

July 22, 2024

Limited additional openings for the ByteBoost Cybertraining in-person workshop, 8/5 - 8/9/2024 at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center are available. This program is designed to boost researchers' proficiency in cutting-edge computing technologies, including but not limited to • Fujitsu FX64 Arm processors • Cerebras-2 Wafer Scale Engine • HPE Superdome Flex • Intel 1100 Max GPUs • Intel FPGAs...

Join the ESDS Forum Monday July 22 to discuss ongoing enhancements to the Casper hardware & software environment

July 18, 2024

The next ESDS forum is coming up this Monday, July 22nd at 2 PM MT on Google Meet! CISL Staff will be giving an update focusing on Casper hardware and software enhancements. Over the past year CISL has begun adding additional resources to the Casper data analysis and visualization cluster across all node classes. We will overview the resources that have already been added - H100-equipped GPGP...

A composite image of many meteors during the Perseids over Dinosaur National Monument.

From now to September 1, you can watch the Perseid meteor shower

July 16, 2024

The annual Perseid shooting star display, which NASA calls “the best of the year,” will be active this year from July 14 to September 1—peaking in the hours before dawn during the overnight from Sunday, August 11 to Monday, August 12. During the Perseids’ peak, an onlooker can expect to see, on average, about one meteor a minute. 2024 promises to be an especially good year, however, because t...

Upcoming SEA Open Discussion on GPUs and Accelerators

July 9, 2024 Updated: July 10, 2024

Join the UCAR Software Engineering Assembly at 11 AM MT on Tuesday, August 13 for a lightly-moderated discussion on the use of GPUs or any other hardware accelerators across UCAR. Any discussion topics are welcome, as are all experience levels. We encourage you to share your experiences, good and bad. Some potential discussion topics include: • Current uses of GPUs and accelerators, includin...