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Cheyenne simulations highlight increased megaflood risk

August 30, 2022

Simulations run on the Cheyenne high-performance computing system at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center indicate that the likelihood of a calamitous flood in California has doubled because of climate change, according to the NCAR scientists who conducted a recent study. The scientists used the Cheyenne system to couple the Community Earth System Model and the Weather and Research Forecastin...

Tutorial September 8: Co-Design Process Training for Scientists and Project Leads

August 29, 2022

Registration is open for the final session in our series of workshops and tutorials on GPU computing. “Co-Design Process Training for Scientists and Project Leads” will be on Thursday, September 8, at 10 a.m. MDT. Please use this form to register by September 2 if you plan to attend and have not already registered for the series. Topics to be covered in this workshop include: • Questions scient...

No system downtimes for week of August 29 - September 2

August 29, 2022

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

No system downtimes for week of August 22 - 26

August 22, 2022

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

Classroom allocations open to universities and NCAR staff

August 18, 2022

NCAR offers Classroom Allocation opportunities to undergraduate and graduate faculty and instructors at U.S. two- and four-year institutions to use NCAR HPC and analysis resources in their courses in Earth system science and related areas. Special projects and honors thesis courses under the guidance of a faculty member are eligible. NCAR staff members can also request Classroom Allocations to ...

Image from a Hurricane Odile simulation in the CISL Visualization Gallery

How to get help visualizing research data

August 16, 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 ...