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Register by this Friday 8/23: virtual workshop series on policy, ethics, and climate intervention

August 20, 2024

Join an NSF-funded series of virtual workshops in October and November to help shape the governance framework around climate change. The all-virtual series, “Exploring the Ethics and Societal Interactions of Climate Intervention,” will take place on October 15, 18, 22, and 25; and November 18 and 21, 2024. The series will focus on Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (C...

HPC Systems Scheduled Maintenance - September 16-19

August 19, 2024

All HPC Resources will undergo maintenance the week of September 16th. Derecho, Casper, JupyterHub, GLADE file systems, data access nodes, and Globus transfers will all be unavailable for separate periods throughout the week. A primary maintenance activity will be the upgrade and expansion of the Bifrost high-performance network which interconnects all HPC resources. This maintenance is requ...

No system downtimes for week of August 19 - 23

August 19, 2024

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

New release of the groundbreaking FastEddy® software now available

August 16, 2024

The NSF NCAR Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) has announced the release of FastEddy® 2.0, a groundbreaking, open source GPU-based model for numerical modeling of complex microscale flows. FastEddy® not only simulates, but actually forecasts, an entire category of weather that has historically gone unseen—microscale weather—and does it skillfully enough and fast enough to make a differe...

Apply by 9/2 for travel and dependent care support for US-RSE conference

August 15, 2024

The US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE) has announced a travel support program for its second annual conference, US-RSE’24, which will take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from October 15 to 17, 2024. US-RSE aims to increase conference diversity by providing financial support to individuals from traditionally underrepresented groups and diverse domain backgrounds, as well as t...

This Tuesday, join the conversation: “Deep dive into the heart of the Derecho supercomputer”

August 15, 2024

Join a virtual NSF NCAR Explorer Series conversation on supercomputers on Tuesday, August 20th, from 10:00 to 11:00 am MT. Register here. Have you ever looked inside a supercomputer? Join a guided tour inside Derecho, NSF NCAR's newest supercomputer! Systems Engineers Jenett Tillotson and Connor Scott will dive deep into the heart of the machine, exploring the processors, memory, and specializ...