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Deadline extended for Improving Scientific Software Conference abstracts

January 31, 2023

The UCAR Software Engineering Assembly has extended the deadline for accepting abstract submissions for the 2023 Improving Scientific Software Conference. The new deadline for submitting your abstract is Tuesday, February 14. The conference, which is scheduled for April 17 to 21, will focus on the theme of the scientific software lifecycle, from designing and building the software itself to man...

Derecho weekly update

January 31, 2023

All the hardware for the new Derecho system is on site at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center and HPE engineers are installing the base system software needed to boot the system. This installation is going slower than expected, but they are making progress. The next phase of the project will be the hardware check-out when HPE runs software on the system to determine if any hardware has faile...

No system downtimes for week of January 30 - February

January 30, 2023

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

Changes coming to CISL’s resource allocation accounting

January 30, 2023

CISL will begin accounting for the use of GPU resources on the Casper cluster and is also revising the charging algorithm for jobs on shared CPU nodes on both Casper and Cheyenne beginning Monday, February 13. Projects that have used Casper GPU resources in the past year have all now received an initial GPU-hours allocation based on that previous use. Charges will be based on a job’s walltime. ...

February 7-8: UCAR/NCAR hosting GlobusWorld Tour

January 25, 2023

UCAR Enterprise IT, NCAR Research IT, and CISL are co-sponsoring a Globus workshop consisting of two half-day events on Tuesday, February 7, and Wednesday, February 8. The workshop is open to UCAR/NCAR staff and outside attendees who have data transfer, data sharing, or data management needs, including researchers, software engineers, data engineers, and others. Participants can attend remotel...

New, improved web presence for RDA

January 24, 2023

NCAR’s Research Data Archive (RDA) has a newly redesigned website. The new site provides a modern, simplified, improved experience for users. “We’ve made it more accessible and mobile-friendly so people can browse and use most of the features from a mobile phone or tablet as well as their computers,” said Doug Schuster, manager of the CISL Data Engineering and Curation Section. “We’d like to en...