CISL Daily Bulletin

The Daily Bulletin delivers news about CISL’s high-performance computing environment, training opportunities, scheduled maintenance, and other events of interest to the user community.

Convenience flags added for users running Casper jobs
July 27, 2021

CISL has added two new convenience flags to simplify how users request resources for running interactive jobs on Casper nodes. The new flags are: • --gpu=[type] to specify the gpu_type resource • --cpu=[type] to specify the cpu_type resource The GPU resources to specify can be either gp100 or v100. CPU resources available include skylake and cascadelake. See Starting Casper jobs with PBS for ...

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NWSC maintenance and HPC systems update
July 27, 2021

All work scheduled for Monday was completed as expected on the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center’s power infrastructure and NCAR’s HPC storage and compute systems. The Casper cluster, Cheyennes login nodes, GLADE file systems, Campaign Storage, data-access nodes, HPSS, Quasar, Stratus, and JupyterHub services will remain unavailable until later this week. Cheyenne’s compute nodes will remain ...

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HPC systems powered down for scheduled maintenance
July 26, 2021

The HPC compute and data storage systems hosted at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center were powered down this morning for the facility’s scheduled maintenance downtime. As announced previously, this maintenance window will allow CISL staff and contractors to perform critical updates to the facility’s power infrastructure in preparation for the arrival of the new Derecho system later this yea...

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Reminder: Extended HPC systems downtime scheduled for July 26 through August 2
July 23, 2021

As announced previously, all HPC compute and data storage systems hosted at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center will be unavailable during part or all of a planned maintenance downtime beginning Monday, July 26. This maintenance window will allow CISL staff and contractors to perform critical updates to the facility’s power infrastructure in preparation for the arrival of the new Derecho sys...

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Reminder: Extended HPC systems downtime scheduled for July 26 through August 2
July 22, 2021

As announced previously, all HPC compute and data storage systems hosted at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center will be unavailable during part or all of a planned maintenance downtime beginning Monday, July 26. This maintenance window will allow CISL staff and contractors to perform critical updates to the facility’s power infrastructure in preparation for the arrival of the new Derecho sys...

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Dask tutorials scheduled for July 14, August 11
July 7, 2021 Updated: July 19, 2021

The July 14 tutorial has been rescheduled for July 28 as noted here. The NCAR/UCAR virtual Python Tutorial Seminar Series continues Wednesday, July 14, with Dask Part 1 of 2 at 1 p.m. MDT and Dask Part 2 of 2 at the same time on Wednesday, August 11. Details will be posted on the NCAR Earth System Data Science Initiative blog as they become available.

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