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Update: CISL's test of the CPE container ended in 2023 The Cray Programming Environment container available to Cheyenne and Casper users now includes GPU support, as described in this updated high-performance computing documentation page: Using a CPE container on NCAR systems (link removed). The Cray Fortran compiler can build applications with OpenACC directives, supporting features up to the...
Additional new documentation about using the Derecho system and other NCAR high-performance computing resources is now available on the Advanced Research Computing portal. Derecho-specific documentation made available recently includes: • an overview of the Lustre scratch file system. • basic environment details. • system use policies. Detailed documentation about starting Derecho jobs, monit...
Quasar will be down Tuesday, March 28, from 8:00 a.m. to noon for relocating one of its mover nodes and the associated tape drives. No downtime is planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Stratus, or JupyterHub.
The NWSC facility experienced power quality issues twice last week, causing power safety equipment to trip appropriately and Derecho compute racks to power off. These incidents were the direct result of a newly built neighboring facility trying to energize for the first time. Once Derecho was brought back online, the Slingshot interconnect fabric stopped working and the project team spent most ...
Applications are being accepted until Friday, March 31, for the INTERSECT Research Software Engineering Bootcamp hosted by Princeton University from July 10 to 14. The intensive, hands-on workshop will focus on practices that will help research software developers improve the quality, reproducibility, and sustainability of their software. The workshop is intended for those who self-identify as ...
Two members of the Computational and Information Systems Lab (CISL) staff are featured in a series of Women’s History Month profiles titled “SuperComputing 2023 Celebrates Thirty-One Women in HPC.” Sheri Mickelson, a software engineer and group manager in CISL’s Technology Development Division, and Summer Wasson, education and multimedia specialist in the High Performance Computing Division, we...