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NCAR wins award for Best Use of HPC in Physical Sciences

November 16, 2022

NCAR has won an HPCwire Editor's Choice award for Best Use of HPC in the Physical Sciences for developing the GPU-based FastEddy model, which can run weather forecasts at a resolution of just five meters (16 feet). FastEddy, which was trained on CISL’s Casper cluster, is a new resident-GPU microscale large-eddy simulation (LES) model coupled with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model...

Now online: Globus v5 training video and slides

November 14, 2022

The recording and slides from the November 9 “Using Globus v5 at NCAR” tutorial are now online here. The tutorial presented by Brian Vanderwende of the CISL Consulting Service Group reviewed recent changes in the Globus data and their impact on users of the service. In the new Globus deployments, endpoints including NCAR GLADE and NCAR Campaign Storage are now known as mapped collections and us...

Prep for Derecho with Casper GPUs

November 14, 2022

Researchers with Casper allocations are welcome to use the analysis and visualization cluster to begin preparing for the extensive GPU capabilities of the new Derecho system when it becomes available in 2023. Casper already has 19 nodes with either NVIDIA GP100 GPUs or V100 GPUs in addition to three nodes with A100 GPUs. More A100s will become available in the next few months. Derecho will get ...

No system downtimes for week of November 14 - 18

November 11, 2022

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

COSMIC offers fellowship opportunity in remote sensing

November 10, 2022

Recent graduates of doctoral programs can now apply for the annual COSMIC Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity for supporting and encouraging the advancement and application of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) remote sensing for Earth science. The UCAR COSMIC program appointment will provide a career development opportunity to conduct research related to the COSMIC-2 mission or other ra...

Globus v5 update completed

November 9, 2022

The Globus services CISL provides were updated to version 5 during the scheduled downtime on Monday and Tuesday. Endpoints including NCAR GLADE and NCAR Campaign Storage were converted to mapped collections and user-created shared endpoints are now guest collections. Aside from the terminology difference, users should still be able to search the same names and use the same collection UUIDs as b...