CISL Daily Bulletin

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No downtime scheduled for week of August 15-19

August 15, 2022

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

Tutorial August 25: Optimizing AI/ML Workflows in Python for GPUs

August 12, 2022

Registration is open for another session in a series of workshops and tutorials on GPU computing. “Optimizing AI/ML Workflows in Python for GPUs” will be on Thursday, August 25, at 10 a.m. MDT. Please use this form to register by August 19 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...

NSC allocation requests are due Sept 13

August 9, 2022 Updated: August 11, 2022

NCAR researchers and computational scientists are encouraged to submit requests for NCAR Strategic Capability (NSC) projects to be run on the Cheyenne system. Requests will be accepted through September 13, 2022. These NSC allocations should target large-scale projects lasting one year or to the end of Cheyenne that align with NCAR’s scientific priorities and strategic plans. You should be awar...

Renamed opportunity and new options for university research

August 9, 2022

Graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and new faculty members at U.S. universities can request a one-time Exploratory Allocation of up to 400,000 Cheyenne core-hours. The newly renamed opportunity is for small-scale allocations supporting work that is not within the scope of a funded research grant. Exploratory allocations typically support dissertations, help foster early career resear...

No system downtimes for week of August 8 - 12

August 8, 2022

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

Tip: Match your memory request to your job’s needs

August 5, 2022

A lot can go wrong if a job you try to run on NCAR’s HPC systems requires more memory than what’s available on the nodes you want. If you request a lot more memory than you need, on the other hand, your job may be slow to start. What do you do? CISL provides several options to help you determine how much memory your program is using so you can request the right amount and avoid problems. See Ch...