CISL Daily Bulletin


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No system downtimes for week of March 6 - 10
March 6, 2023

None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub. 

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Derecho weekly update
March 3, 2023

The NWSC-3 project team reached a significant milestone this week by completing work on hardware and software commissioning. HPE and CISL engineers began configuring and customizing Derecho to integrate it into NCAR’s HPC environment. HPE engineers also worked to resolve errors on the HPE Slingshot interconnect, and oversight monitoring of the fabric looked good.  Benchmarking experts started r...

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Help desk maintenance downtime on Tuesday
March 2, 2023

The NCAR Research Computing Help Desk and the Enterprise Service Desk for NCAR/UCAR staff support will both be unavailable from 5 to 9 p.m. MST on Tuesday, March 7, for scheduled maintenance. Users will be unable to submit tickets during that time frame and are asked to refrain from making changes during the downtime to tickets they submitted previously.

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Getting help with Python scientific software workflows
March 1, 2023

Researchers who need assistance with their Python scientific software workflows are welcome to schedule office hours appointments with NCAR’s Earth System Data Science (ESDS) experts. To see who is available and schedule an initial 30-minute appointment, anyone needing help can visit the ESDS Office Hours page. Office hours are intended as opportunities to ask questions like: • Can you help me ...

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CISL test of CPE container ends
February 27, 2023 Updated: February 28, 2023

The container image of HPE’s Cray Programming Environment (CPE) that was temporarily available to Casper and Cheyenne users to help them prepare for the new Derecho supercomputer has been removed. Users who participated in testing may still be asked to provide feedback to HPE if they have not already done so. Those who need to use CPE for code porting activities can now get access to the Gust t...

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No system downtimes for week of February 27 - March 3
February 27, 2023

None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

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