CISL Daily Bulletin

The Daily Bulletin delivers news about CISL’s high-performance computing environment, training opportunities, scheduled maintenance, and other events of interest to the user community.

Seeking HPC users’ input on containers
September 8, 2022

Are you interested in running containerized software in an HPC environment? Would you like an easier path to distributing software developed at NCAR to collaborators at sites around the globe? CISL’s Consulting Services Group is seeking feedback on use cases to help us focus our training and solution offerings going forward. Please help shape the future of NCAR’s containerized application suppo...

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Brief Cheyenne PBS scheduling pause planned
September 6, 2022

CISL will be pausing PBS services on Cheyenne briefly at 7 a.m. MDT on Thursday, September 8, in order to clear up some reporting issues we have encountered. This outage should only last 10 minutes, during which time new PBS submissions will fail, including cross-submissions from Casper to Cheyenne, and qstat output will be served from a stale cache. Running jobs and previously queued jobs will...

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System downtimes for week of September 6 - 9
September 6, 2022

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

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Registration open for September 20-21 ESPPRE Workshop
September 2, 2022

Join us for the Earth Science Performance, Productivity, Reliability Engineering (ESPPRE) Workshop on September 20 and 21, either at the Mesa Lab in Boulder or virtually. Registration is free! The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for open discussion to better understand the application of new high-performance computing (HPC) technologies for the next generation of weather, climate...

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All HPC users invited to September 6 NHUG meeting
September 1, 2022

All users of NCAR’s HPC systems are invited to the NCAR HPC User Group (NHUG) monthly meeting from 9 to 10 a.m. MDT on Tuesday, September 6.  To contribute to the agenda or submit questions for the meeting, please visit Slido, where you can also upvote topics and questions submitted by your peers. NHUG meetings are structured to encourage you to ask questions and voice concerns and to provide a...

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Cheyenne simulations highlight increased megaflood risk
August 30, 2022

Simulations run on the Cheyenne high-performance computing system at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center indicate that the likelihood of a calamitous flood in California has doubled because of climate change, according to the NCAR scientists who conducted a recent study. The scientists used the Cheyenne system to couple the Community Earth System Model and the Weather and Research Forecastin...

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