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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...

Provide your input about equity to the NSF through this survey

December 18, 2023

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking public input from the science and engineering research and education community on the topics of equity and access. To provide your input, fill out this questionnaire on open, immediate, and equitable access to the NSF. The survey is open until January 2, 2024. Your feedback will go toward implementing NSF Public Access Plan 2.0, “Ensuring Open...

Join a tutorial on visualizing geoscience data with Python at AMS

December 18, 2023

Join NCAR's ViSR and GeoCAT teams at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting for a tutorial entitled “Visualizing 2D and 3D Geoscience Data in Python.” You can register directly for the AMS tutorial, to be held January 27, 2024. NCAR’s GeoCAT and VAPOR groups are committed to open science by developing open source, scalable, multi-platform data analysis and visualization tools th...

No system downtimes for week of December 18 - 22

December 18, 2023

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

Initializing modules in C shell scripts on Derecho

December 15, 2023

You may have noticed that the “module” command is not always available in your (t)csh shell scripts, including PBS batch jobs. This issue is the result of differences in the way the shell is initialized in SUSE Linux. We have developed a back-end fix for the problem, which is deployed already on Casper. The fix will also be deployed on Derecho during the next scheduled outage. Until the fix is...