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On Monday, December 13, CISL will increase all users’ GLADE home directory quotas from 25 GB to 50 GB. No user action is required. After the increase, the gladequota command will report a user’s quota as 100 GB to account for data being replicated on multiple storage targets. See the GLADE documentation for more information.
CISL system engineers will update the JupyterHub deployment on Tuesday, December 14. The update will begin before 8 a.m. MST and is expected to take less than 30 minutes to complete. The work will include general package and extension updates that are expected to provide a more stable user experience. CISL will make every effort to minimize impacts but users may experience brief interruptions w...
Users can now run their own Singularity containers on the Cheyenne and Casper systems. This new documentation details which modules to load to support the container, which commands to run, and how to perform a simple test in the new Singularity container environment. After completing a successful test, users should be able to use their Singularity container on the host system. Performance has n...
Due to the continued worldwide shortfall in semiconductor supplies, the delivery of Derecho to NCAR will be further delayed by approximately six months. HPE’s new delivery date for Derecho is now mid-June 2022. Following Derecho’s delivery, HPE and CISL will begin the system’s installation and testing effort that will require approximately two months to complete. CISL will then begin formal acc...
None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, Glade, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.
New versions of many software packages – including netCDF, HDF5, NCO, CDO, GDAL, R, Singularity, and CMake – have been installed on both Cheyenne and Casper. In addition, new releases of MPT (version 2.25) and Arm Forge (version 21.1.1) have been installed, resolving known bugs relating to collective parallel IO and memory debugging, respectively. The parallel IO bug in MPT affects versions 2.2...