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Dask tutorials scheduled for July 14, August 11

July 7, 2021 Updated: July 19, 2021

The July 14 tutorial has been rescheduled for July 28 as noted here. The NCAR/UCAR virtual Python Tutorial Seminar Series continues Wednesday, July 14, with Dask Part 1 of 2 at 1 p.m. MDT and Dask Part 2 of 2 at the same time on Wednesday, August 11. Details will be posted on the NCAR Earth System Data Science Initiative blog as they become available.

Dask tutorials now scheduled for July 28, August 11

July 19, 2021

Update: The NCAR/UCAR virtual Python Tutorial Seminar Series continues Wednesday, July 28, with Dask Part 1 of 2 at 1 p.m. MDT and Dask Part 2 of 2 at the same time on Wednesday, August 11. See the NCAR Earth System Data Science Initiative blog for details. Dask Part 1 was scheduled previously for July 14.

Less than 70 days remaining for HPSS access

July 19, 2021

The HPSS tape archive storage system will be taken offline at 4 p.m. MDT on Friday, July 23, a few days earlier than previously planned in advance of the upcoming extended NWSC maintenance downtime. This means less than 70 days remain for users to access files on HPSS. Though time is growing short until the HPSS decommissioning on October 1, you can still accomplish a fair amount of file-copy...

System downtimes for week of July 19-23

July 16, 2021 Updated: July 19, 2021

No scheduled downtime: Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Quasar, or Stratus, Downtime is scheduled for HPSS from 4 p.m. Friday, July 23, to 10 p.m. Wednesday, July 28. This system will go down a little earlier than other equipment that will be unavailable during next week's extended downtime to ensure that all data has a tape copy before the power is shut down.

No downtime scheduled for week of July 12-16

July 9, 2021

No downtime scheduled for Cheyenne, Casper, Campaign Storage, JupyterHub, HPSS, GLADE, Quasar, or Stratus.

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NCAR partners with Smithsonian museum for augmented reality project

July 8, 2021

NCAR and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture have teamed up to develop an augmented reality (AR) application for use in museums and exhibit spaces. “This project demonstrates how AR technologies can be applied in novel ways to engage wider and more diverse audiences as well as help promote NCAR research and science to the broader public,” according to the CI...