CISL Daily Bulletin

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Reminder: HPC systems maintenance downtime October 17-20

September 9, 2022

NCAR’s HPC resources will be unavailable to users October 17-20 while CISL staff perform preventive maintenance and security updates. The work includes a number of HPC system security patches in addition to regularly scheduled maintenance on Cheyenne’s cooling infrastructure. Progress will be communicated through Notifier emails during the week. Security updates are planned for Cheyenne and Cas...

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...

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...

System downtimes for week of September 6 - 9

September 6, 2022

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

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...

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...