CISL Daily Bulletin

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Registration open for Improving Scientific Software Conference

March 13, 2023

The UCAR Software Engineering Assembly’s 2023 Improving Scientific Software Conference is open for registration. The conference will focus on the scientific software lifecycle, from designing and building software to managing output data and ensuring discoverability and reproducibility. It will highlight successes, opportunities, and challenges from emerging technologies with an emphasis on too...

Derecho weekly update

March 13, 2023

The Derecho project team continued work on addressing hardware and software problems that surfaced and plans to start acceptance testing later this week or early next week. CISL also published additional new documentation for Derecho users, as announced in this Daily Bulletin article.

No system downtimes for week of March 13 - 17

March 10, 2023

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

New documentation published for Derecho users

March 10, 2023

Additional new documentation about using the Derecho system and other NCAR high-performance computing resources is now available on the Advanced Research Computing portal. • Information on compiling code on all NCAR resources – including Derecho – is provided in Getting started with NCAR systems. • New Derecho-specific documentation made available recently includes basic environment details an...

Globus services temporarily unavailable Saturday

March 8, 2023

Globus transfer services will be unavailable for up to two hours beginning at 9 a.m. MST on Saturday, March 11, due to a planned vendor database upgrade. For additional information, see the corresponding Globus announcement.

Reminder: University allocation requests due March 13

March 7, 2023

Requests from university-based researchers for allocations on the new Derecho system as well as the Casper data analysis and visualization cluster are due on Monday, March 13. Researchers can also request Cheyenne allocations in order to complete their work on that system before it is decommissioned in December 2023. Researchers are encouraged to review these instructions before preparing their...