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NCAR’s HPC resources will be unavailable to users on January 17-20 while CISL staff reconfigure the high-performance network to accommodate the Derecho supercomputer and perform urgent maintenance on Cheyenne’s cooling infrastructure. Progress will be communicated through Notifier emails during the week. The network maintenance will make all of these resources temporarily unavailable during the...
A CISL Consulting Services Group (CSG) tutorial from 1 to 2 p.m. MST on Tuesday, December 13, will introduce new users to the Cheyenne high-performance computing system and the Casper cluster for data analysis, visualization, and machine learning. Topics that CSG’s Mea Trahan will cover include: • What HPC systems are available at NCAR and how to access them • Basics of job submission in a batc...
All users of the Cheyenne and Casper systems are invited to the NCAR HPC User Group (NHUG) monthly meeting from 9 to 10 a.m. MST on Tuesday, December 6. To contribute to the agenda or submit questions for the next meeting, please visit Slido, where you can also upvote topics and questions submitted by your peers. NHUG meetings are structured to encourage you to ask questions and voice concerns...
NCAR, NOAA, NVIDIA and OpenACC.org are hosting an Open Hackathon on February 21 (an online-only introduction) and February 28 through March 2 at the NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder (hybrid format). Open Hackathons are opportunities for scientists and research software engineers to collaborate with expert mentors from national labs, universities, and industry leaders to accelerate their high-performanc...
None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.
NCAR’s recent HPCwire Editor's Choice award for Best Use of HPC in the Physical Sciences was recognition for a collaborative, cross-laboratory success, according to a new CISL article about the GPU-based FastEddy model. FastEddy was developed primarily on the Casper cluster and involved key contributions from both the Research Applications Lab and CISL high-performance computing experts. The a...