CISL Daily Bulletin

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Help desk maintenance downtime on Tuesday

March 2, 2023

The NCAR Research Computing Help Desk and the Enterprise Service Desk for NCAR/UCAR staff support will both be unavailable from 5 to 9 p.m. MST on Tuesday, March 7, for scheduled maintenance. Users will be unable to submit tickets during that time frame and are asked to refrain from making changes during the downtime to tickets they submitted previously.

Getting help with Python scientific software workflows

March 1, 2023

Researchers who need assistance with their Python scientific software workflows are welcome to schedule office hours appointments with NCAR’s Earth System Data Science (ESDS) experts. To see who is available and schedule an initial 30-minute appointment, anyone needing help can visit the ESDS Office Hours page. Office hours are intended as opportunities to ask questions like: • Can you help me ...

CISL test of CPE container ends

February 27, 2023 Updated: February 28, 2023

The container image of HPE’s Cray Programming Environment (CPE) that was temporarily available to Casper and Cheyenne users to help them prepare for the new Derecho supercomputer has been removed. Users who participated in testing may still be asked to provide feedback to HPE if they have not already done so. Those who need to use CPE for code porting activities can now get access to the Gust t...

No system downtimes for week of February 27 - March 3

February 27, 2023

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

Derecho weekly update

February 23, 2023

HPE engineers began configuring and testing the Slingshot interconnection network for the Derecho system this week. The hardware checkout phase also began this week, and HPE has identified and replaced some faulty and marginal hardware on the system. This hardware checkout phase will continue for at least another week.

System downtimes for week of February 21 - 24

February 21, 2023

The Cheyenne1 login node is scheduled for maintenance on February 23rd 10am - 2pm None planned for Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.