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Programmers interested in attending the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Shared Memory Programming Using OpenMP workshop on Monday, April 24, should register by 10 a.m. MDT on Friday. The one-day event for C and Fortran programmers will be in-person at a number of satellite sites, including CU-Boulder, via the Wide Area Classroom training platform. For more information and a list of other hos...
Are you a researcher or other individual who needs help working with NCAR’s high-performance computing systems? You can get expert help a number of different ways, from submitting a help ticket any time to calling or even scheduling an appointment with a CISL supercomputing consultant. For details, go to ncar.pub/HPC-user-support on the NCAR/CISL Advanced Research Computing portal. You’ll find ...
The Derecho project team and HPE engineers continued working through the Acceptance Testing Phase (ATP) and encountered several functional and resiliency issues. The project team worked with HPE subject matter experts and have resolved most of those issues, including some major performance problems with the Lustre scratch file system. The team also completed a second power-down and power-up tes...
None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.
A number of HPC user support services will be unavailable during scheduled maintenance at NCAR’s Mesa Lab facility in Boulder from 3 a.m. MDT on Saturday, April 22, to 8 p.m. MDT on Sunday, April 23. The affected services include HPC user documentation on the Advanced Research Computing portal, the NCAR Research Computing Help Desk, and the Enterprise Service Desk for NCAR/UCAR staff support. H...
CISL system engineers will deploy a minor operating system image update to Cheyenne compute node racks this week in order to facilitate additional file system access. The updates will be done one rack at a time starting on Wednesday, April 12, in a series of rolling reservations and reboots. Users may notice a slight reduction in throughput as each rack is drained and subsequently reintegrated ...