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Several members of CISL’s Consulting Services Group will participate in the annual Cray Users’ Group conference May 2-6 in preparation for delivery of the Derecho supercomputing system. Response times for support tickets submitted via NCAR's Research Computing help desk will likely be longer than usual during this period. We appreciate your patience and cooperation throughout the week.
Some Cheyenne users have recently reported some application slowdown when using the MPT library. These slowdowns were traced to using binaries that were compiled with mpt/2.22 in jobs that load the now-default mpt/2.25 MPI library. Incompatibilities between the remote-data transfer backends of each MPT version explain this substandard performance seen in certain workflows. This scenario illustr...
Registration is open for another session in a series of workshops and tutorials on GPU computing. “Hands-On Session Using OpenACC in MPAS-A” will be on Thursday, April 28, at 10 a.m. MDT. Please use this form to register by April 22 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 Ea...
None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.
The EarthCube Research Coordination Network project has scheduled a “What About Model Data?” workshop at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, on July 25-27, 2022. The workshop will focus on tackling open issues in preservation, sharing, and curation of data and software from research that utilizes simulations. Questions to be addressed include: • How can simulation data and software cur...
Atmospheric researchers around the world depend on getting quick access to timely, usable data, and thousands of them turn to the NCAR Research Data Archive (RDA) to get what they need. Some 3,600 users have downloaded 2.7 petabytes of data via web access alone in the past 15 months. To make that possible, CISL’s RDA data engineers and curators download, process, archive, and make massive data ...