CISL Daily Bulletin


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Reminder: Full Casper Software Refresh Coming During October Outage
October 11, 2023

To make it easier to create workflows that span Casper and Derecho, CISL has been working on migrating the Casper cluster to an OpenSUSE-based compute environment, with a whole new software stack similar to Derecho (though without Cray modules). Recently-deployed A100 GPGPU nodes already feature this software stack, which is incompatible with any software compiled for the CentOS-based Casper no...

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Last chance to register for November Correctness Workshop
October 10, 2023

Registration is closing soon for the Workshop on Correctness and Reproducibility for Climate and Weather Software. This workshop will take place November 9-10, 2023 at NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, and virtually. Please register by October 20 for in-person registration ($50) or by November 3 for virtual registration ($25). 

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No system downtimes for week of October 9 - 13
October 6, 2023

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

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Cheyenne Retirement and Migrating Scratch Data from Cheyenne to Derecho
October 5, 2023

As part of the upcoming retirement of Cheyenne, users should take note of several important dates, policies, and optional procedures for scratch data migration: • Cheyenne’s scratch file system will only be accessible until February 29, 2024. • Cheyenne will run its final job on December 31, 2023. • Therefore, effective November 1, 2023, Cheyenne will have a decreasing scratch availability win...

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Free Tutorials to Improve Research Software
September 29, 2023

With the upcoming US Research Software Engineering (US-RSE) conference, multiple free virtual tutorials are being offered prior to the conference targeting the research community. Tutorial participants do not need to register for the conference to attend. Offered tutorials include: • October 2 12-1:30pm CT: GitHub Actions for Scientific Data Workflows • October 4 12-1:30pm CT:  Using Globus Pl...

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No system downtimes for week of October 2 - 6
September 29, 2023

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

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