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Holiday schedule for Help Desk and Consulting Services
November 21, 2022

The CISL Help Desk team and Consulting Services Group will be taking Thursday and Friday off so staff members can enjoy the holiday weekend along with the rest of NCAR and UCAR. Users can still submit help requests as needed or call 303-497-2400 to report issues that might require attention during the weekend.

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No system downtimes for week of November 21 - 25
November 18, 2022

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

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NCAR wins award for Best Use of HPC in Physical Sciences
November 16, 2022

NCAR has won an HPCwire Editor's Choice award for Best Use of HPC in the Physical Sciences for developing the GPU-based FastEddy model, which can run weather forecasts at a resolution of just five meters (16 feet). FastEddy, which was trained on CISL’s Casper cluster, is a new resident-GPU microscale large-eddy simulation (LES) model coupled with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model...

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Now online: Globus v5 training video and slides
November 14, 2022

The recording and slides from the November 9 “Using Globus v5 at NCAR” tutorial are now online here. The tutorial presented by Brian Vanderwende of the CISL Consulting Service Group reviewed recent changes in the Globus data and their impact on users of the service. In the new Globus deployments, endpoints including NCAR GLADE and NCAR Campaign Storage are now known as mapped collections and us...

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Prep for Derecho with Casper GPUs
November 14, 2022

Researchers with Casper allocations are welcome to use the analysis and visualization cluster to begin preparing for the extensive GPU capabilities of the new Derecho system when it becomes available in 2023. Casper already has 19 nodes with either NVIDIA GP100 GPUs or V100 GPUs in addition to three nodes with A100 GPUs. More A100s will become available in the next few months. Derecho will get ...

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No system downtimes for week of November 14 - 18
November 11, 2022

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

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