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CSG/Help Desk closed for Juneteenth

June 18, 2024

Please note that the Consulting Services Group (CSG) and the Help Desk will be closed Wednesday, June 19th, for Juneteenth. The Help Desk will reopen Thursday, June 20th to resume its normal hours (7:30 AM to 5:00 PM Mountain Time, Monday to Friday). If you need help during this time, please submit a ticket to help@ucar.edu, or call 303-497-2000 to reach the Cheyenne Network Operations Cente...

All NCAR HPC users are invited to join the June NHUG meeting!

June 17, 2024

The next NHUG meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 1-2 pm MDT, and we invite all NCAR HPC users to attend. Agenda Highlights: • Upcoming Relevant Opportunities & Announcements • New Casper GPU Nodes • Updates from June Unexpected Outages • Real-time, medium-range, convection-allowing ensemble forecasts with global variable-resolution models by Craig Schwartz To add this meetin...

No system downtimes for week of June 17 -21

June 14, 2024

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

New Default “Rerun” Behavior for PBS Jobs on NCAR’s HPC Resources

June 12, 2024

In response to a PBS issue observed in the past month, CISL staff have changed the default “rerun” behavior of submitted batch jobs on both Derecho and Casper. Previously, batch jobs were considered rerunnable by default, meaning that in case of startup issues, the scheduler would automatically attempt to rerun the job. After the PBS upgrade this past May, this feature began interacting negati...

Register for a June 12 webinar on development workflows for research software projects

June 11, 2024

Join a webinar on June 12, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm MT, entitled “Strengthening Development Workflows by Graphically Communicating Elements of Software Design.” The webinar will be led by Rafael Mudafort of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and is part of the IDEAS HPC Best Practices Webinar series. The workshop will present methods to visually communicate software design elements a...

Register today for the Joint WRF/MPAS Users’ Workshop starting June 25

June 11, 2024

The Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory (MMM) of NCAR invites you to attend a Joint Users' Workshop on Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) and the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS). The workshop will be held from June 25–28, 2024, in-person at the NCAR/UCAR Center Green campus in Boulder, Colorado, as well as virtually (online). The workshop will discuss model developme...