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JupyterHub Changes Planned for January 9th

December 26, 2023

CISL engineers are planning updates to the JupyterHub on January 9th that will temporarily take the service offline. During this outage, we will migrate the JupyterHub to newer hardware, and remove the Cheyenne server types from the interface (note that Cheyenne batch servers will no longer be available after December 31st as PBS queues will be stopped at that time). Shortly thereafter, we will...

No system downtimes for week of December 25 - 29

December 22, 2023

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

Help Desk closed on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1

December 21, 2023

Please note that the Consulting Services Group (CSG) will be closed for the next two upcoming Mondays: • Monday, December 25, 2023 • Monday, January 1, 2024 The Help Desk will be closed on these dates as well. Other than these two Monday closures, the Help Desk will be open during its normal hours (7:30 AM to 5:00 PM Mountain Time, Monday to Friday). The Help Desk serves both NCAR and ...

GLADE/FS1 is retiring in February—here’s how to relocate your data

December 20, 2023

Like Cheyenne, the GLADE FS1 subsystem has reached end-of-life. It will be retired in February 2024, and all data must be relocated by the end of January. (See below for details on how to do that.) The hardware storage subsystem serves the file spaces /glade/p/ and /glade/collections. For the past several months, NCAR/CISL has been dispositioning and relocating existing data. What are the ne...

Submit your abstract to the 2024 Improving Scientific Software Conference

December 18, 2023

The Improving Scientific Software Conference, held in April 2024, will focus on the modernization of scientific software, and what that means to the community now and in the years to come. The conference is for staff and students at research institutions, universities, and industry who are interested in the latest developments in scientific software. Abstracts for talks and tutorials will be ...

Cheyenne Countdown: New year, new you, new supercomputer! Switch to Derecho.

December 18, 2023

Now is a great time to switch to Derecho. Just in time for the New Year, Cheyenne will retire on December 31, 2023, to be replaced by the new supercomputer Derecho. The good news is that Derecho is 3.5 times more powerful than Cheyenne. However, the bad news is that researchers now only have a couple weeks left to wrap up all their computing projects on Cheyenne. It is officially the last m...