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Next tutorial in GPU series is June 30

June 17, 2022

Registration is open for another session in a series of workshops and tutorials on GPU computing. “Multi-GPU Programming, Part 1” will be on Thursday, June 30, at 10 a.m. MDT. Please use this form to register by June 26 if you plan to attend and have not already registered for the series. The series of one-hour sessions is for scientists, software engineers, and students in the Earth system sc...

New tool for license use info: licstatus

June 17, 2022

Users can now run licstatus to get a quick report on license status for software such as MATLAB tools and toolboxes and Intel and PGI compilers. As noted in our revised License use guidelines, in addition to replacing the now-deprecated “licstats,” the new tool reports how many licenses you're using, the total number of licenses in use, and the total number of licenses.

Cray container updated with NCAR module environment

June 16, 2022

To help the HPC user community prepare for the new Derecho system, CISL has been working with HPE to deploy the Cray Programming Environment in a containerized form on Cheyenne and Casper. The container, first deployed several months ago, has already been used to ready NCAR applications for compilation with the Cray compiler. Recent updates to the container replace the default Cray module envir...

Image from a Hurricane Odile simulation in the CISL Visualization Gallery

Get expert help visualizing research data

June 14, 2022

Researchers who want help visualizing data to demonstrate the results of their scientific computing can request expert assistance and collaboration from CISL. This service is available to researchers using specialized applications on data analysis and visualization resources that CISL manages. CISL visualization staff have special expertise in CISL-developed software such as VAPOR but are open ...

No system downtimes for week of June 13-17

June 13, 2022

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

ARM Forge tools documentation updated

June 9, 2022

CISL’s recommendation for environment variables to set when using ARM Forge tools with the MPT MPI library has been updated. Running DDT, MAP and PR jobs also now includes updated examples using ARM Forge version 22.0.2. Users who need assistance are asked to contact CISL through the NCAR Research Computing help desk.