CISL Daily Bulletin

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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...

HPC users invited to March 7 user group meeting

March 6, 2023

All Cheyenne and Casper system users are invited to the NCAR HPC User Group (NHUG) monthly meeting from 9 to 10 a.m. MST on Tuesday, March 7. CISL staff will discuss the status of the Derecho system and updates from the NCAR/NOAA GPU hackathon, and also highlight some upcoming events and new published resources. To contribute to the agenda or submit questions for the next meeting, please visit...

No system downtimes for week of March 6 - 10

March 6, 2023

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

Derecho weekly update

March 3, 2023

The NWSC-3 project team reached a significant milestone this week by completing work on hardware and software commissioning. HPE and CISL engineers began configuring and customizing Derecho to integrate it into NCAR’s HPC environment. HPE engineers also worked to resolve errors on the HPE Slingshot interconnect, and oversight monitoring of the fabric looked good. Benchmarking experts started r...

Help desk maintenance downtime on Tuesday

March 2, 2023

The NCAR Research Computing Help Desk and the Enterprise Service Desk for NCAR/UCAR staff support will both be unavailable from 5 to 9 p.m. MST on Tuesday, March 7, for scheduled maintenance. Users will be unable to submit tickets during that time frame and are asked to refrain from making changes during the downtime to tickets they submitted previously.