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VAPOR tutorial scheduled for August 23

July 25, 2022

CISL is hosting a 90-minute virtual tutorial at 10 a.m. Tuesday, August 23, for the upcoming VAPOR 3.7 release. The recommended VAPOR workflow will be reviewed, along with principles for visualizing 3D simulation data. Topics to be covered also include: • How to import data into VAPOR • Creating 3D animations • How to use the new Python API, which allows for scripted visualizations that can r...

No system downtimes for week of July 25-29

July 25, 2022

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

Tutorial July 28: GPU Python with CuPy and Legate

July 20, 2022

Registration is open for another session in a series of CISL workshops and tutorials on GPU computing. The upcoming tutorial and subsequent events in the series will step away from compiled languages to cover GPU computing using Python, so new participants in particular are encouraged to join. “GPU Python with CuPy and Legate” will be at 10 a.m. MDT on Thursday, July 28. Please use this form t...

No system downtimes for week of July 18-22

July 18, 2022

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

CISL seminar July 18 on generic programming in Fortran

July 15, 2022

NASA’s Dr. Tom Clune will present a special CISL seminar titled “Generic Programming in Fortran 202Y” from 1 to 2 p.m. MDT on Monday, July 18. NCAR/UCAR/UCP staff interested in attending can do so in the Main Seminar Room of the NCAR Mesa Lab. Anyone can attend online. See the seminar web page for the abstract and details for participating remotely.

Schedule set for large-scale university allocation requests

July 12, 2022

University-based researchers can submit large-scale requests for Cheyenne allocations from August 1 through September 12. Due to the most recent delay in the schedule for delivery of the new Derecho supercomputer, we will only be considering requests for Cheyenne core-hours this fall. Large-scale Cheyenne requests are for more than 400,000 core-hours. In addition to requesting computing allocat...