CISL Daily Bulletin

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No system downtimes for week of December 4 - 8

December 1, 2023

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

As Cheyenne limps to the finish line, move to Derecho now!

November 29, 2023

Cheyenne suffered a cooling distribution unit (CDU) failure over the Thanksgiving holiday, causing two racks of compute nodes to go down until repairs can be completed. Service is underway but the venerable machine is in a degraded state with less than a month until decommissioning. Until repairs are completed, network performance is expected to be somewhat degraded particularly for large node-...

Register for AGU Geoscience Data tutorial by Friday 12/1

November 29, 2023

Join NCAR's ViSR and GeoCAT teams at AGU23 for a tutorial entitled “Visualizing 2D and 3D Geoscience Data in Python.” The tutorial runs from Monday, December 11, to Friday, December 15. The deadline to register for the Geoscience Data tutorial is this upcoming Friday, December 1. To register, follow the directions in the NCAR tutorial announcement. The Geoscience Data workshop will guide par...

Cheyenne Countdown: Change is good. Switch to Derecho.

November 27, 2023

As the old song has it, “I could use a little fuel myself, and we could all use a little change.” As New Year’s approaches, it’s time to make an important change. Cheyenne will be retired on December 31, 2023, replaced by our powerful new supercomputer Derecho. That means no putting it off anymore—it’s time to switch to Derecho. CISL cannot provide anyone with special priority to complete las...

No system downtimes for week of November 27 - December 1

November 22, 2023

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

CSG Help Desk Closed for Thanksgiving Break.

November 21, 2023

Please note that the Consulting Services Group (CSG) will be closed over the long weekend, and accordingly the Help Desk will be shut down as well. The Help Desk will close on Thursday, November 23, and reopen Monday, November 27 to resume its normal hours (7:30 AM to 5:00 PM Mountain Time, Monday to Friday). The Help Desk serves both NCAR and UCAR, so please plan your projects accordingly....