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NHUG/Analysis Workflows Special Interest Group Meeting TODAY: Using Conda to Manage Analysis Environments

August 7, 2023

Brian Vanderwende will be presenting a tutorial on Using conda to access and manage analysis environments at the Earth System Data Science (ESDS) Forum today, Monday August 7, at 2pm MDT. The tutorial will focus on conda usage and related topics on the NCAR HPC systems. This will be an Analysis Workflow Special Interest Group (AWSIG) event with additional announcements from the CISL Consulti...

Abstracts sought for AMS 2024 session on FAIR and Open Data and Software

August 4, 2023

Abstracts are being sought for the NCAR-led session titled, “FAIR and Open Data and Software within the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences to Support Transparent, Reusable and Efficient Research and Operations,” which is a joint session hosted by the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies at the AMS 2024 annual meeting. The deadline for abstracts is Aug. 24. Full Sess...

Cheyenne has been returned to service

August 4, 2023

This week’s Cheyenne maintenance activities are complete. The machine was returned to production status ahead of schedule at 1PM Thursday, August 3. Notably, repairs to the InfiniBand high-speed network were performed as well as cooling system maintenance. CISL engineers have verified functionality, with particular emphasis on large jobs that were disproportionately impacted by the previous ...

Registration open for November Correctness and Reproducibility Workshop

August 2, 2023

Registration is now open for the Workshop on Correctness and Reproducibility for Climate and Weather Software. This workshop will take place November 9-10, 2023 at NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, and virtually. Please register by October 20 for in-person registration ($50), or by November 3 for virtual registration ($25).

System downtimes for week of July 31 - August 4

July 31, 2023

Cheyenne will be down July 31 - August 4 for maintenance. No downtime is planned for Casper, Campaign Storage, GLADE, JupyterHub, Stratus or Quasar.

Derecho to Open to All Projects and Users August 9

July 27, 2023

As the Accelerated Scientific Discovery (ASD) period winds down, Derecho general user access is targeted to begin on Wednesday, August 9. CISL will begin accepting requests for transfers of Cheyenne allocations to Derecho and small Derecho allocation requests on August 1. Visit the Allocations area of the ARC portal to transfer core-hours or to request an allocation. Users are encouraged to be...