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NHUG Blog: Energy Accounting on Derecho

April 26, 2024

Have you ever wondered how much energy your compute job is using? CISL has recently deployed new energy metrics for PBS jobs on Derecho that provide insight into energy consumption across nodes, CPU, memory, and GPU devices. Learn more about these metrics and how to query them in this new NCAR HPC User Group Blog post. Once you have familiarized yourself with these data, please consider sharin...

Join Upcoming NSDF Webinar Featuring Thomas Hauser

April 23, 2024 Updated: April 24, 2024

On May 2, join a webinar hosted by National Science Data Fabric (NSDF) Distinguished Speaker Dr. Thomas Hauser, the director of the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL). Dr. Hauser will deliver a talk entitled “Advancing Earth System Science through Research Computing and Data Services at NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).” The talk will discuss CISL’s co...

No system downtimes for week of Apr. 22-26

April 22, 2024

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

HPC Systems Downtime May 7-8 for PBS Upgrade and Filesystem Maintenance

April 15, 2024

All CISL HPC systems will be down for scheduled maintenance May 7-8 deploy an updated version of the PBS batch scheduling system across all resources. During this time, all Derecho and Casper compute nodes will be unavailable. Login nodes will be unavailable at the beginning of the outage window in order to allow for file system maintenance. Scheduler reservations will be put in place to ensur...

No system downtimes for week of April 15 - 19

April 12, 2024

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

NASA Earth Sciences & UW Hackweek

April 12, 2024

The eScience Institute at the University of Washington is inviting applications for their annual hackweek program Aug 19-23rd in Seattle, WA. This year will feature projects using data from the NASA ICESat-2 and SnowEx missions and include training on Machine Learning in the Geosciences (NSF GeoSMART). Hackweeks are designed to support academic students and researchers at the graduate level a...