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Apply by Jan. 31 for the April 2025 NAIRR AI workshop in Denver; volunteer opportunities available

January 15, 2025

The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot is pleased to announce the workshop “AI Unlocked: Empowering Higher Education through Research and Discovery,” held Wednesday, April 2 to Thursday, April 3 in Denver, CO. With a mix of expert-led presentations and substantial hands-on support, this workshop helps participants leverage AI for their current work and for career a...

All NCAR HPC users are invited to join the January 21st NHUG meeting!

January 15, 2025

The next NHUG meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 1-2 pm MT, and we invite all NCAR HPC users to attend. In this month's meeting, we will cover upcoming outages, share information on relevant events and opportunities, and introduce a new tool that simplifies running Visual Studio Code on Casper compute nodes. Additionally, Dr. George Bryan will discuss recent developments in ...

Support Available for Students with Submissions to ISS 2025

January 9, 2025

Abstract submission is open until January 24, 2025 for the annual Improving Scientific Software Conference, which will take place April 7-10, 2025 in Boulder, CO and virtually. The theme of ISS 2025 is From Legacy to Leading-Edge: Transforming Software Design in Science to Meet Tomorrow’s Challenges. We are accepting submissions for talks, as well as tutorial and panel sessions. The ISS Commit...

“What is a climate emulator?” Read the interview with NSF NCAR’s Dr. Allison H. Baker about the prize-winning research

January 9, 2025

“A climate emulator is a statistical model designed to mimic the behavior of a climate model... to generate new data or predict outcomes for new inputs more cheaply than running the full climate model.” — Dr. Allison H. Baker Last November, Dr. Allison H. Baker was part of the team that won the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling—a prize recognizing innovative parallel computing contrib...

Applications open for International High Performance Computing Summer School (IHPCSS)

January 8, 2025

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Australia, Europe, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the 15th International High Performance Computing Summer School (IHPCSS), to be held on July 6–11, 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal. Applications for this expense-paid program are due by 23:59 Anywhere on Earth Time (AOE) on Friday, January 31, 2025 (which translate...

University instructors: Use NSF NCAR computing resources in your university courses

January 3, 2025

Do you teach a university class? Consider applying for a classroom allocation on Derecho. As part of NSF NCAR’s mission to support atmospheric science and education, faculty and instructors at any two- or four-year U.S. institution can use HPC and analysis resources from NSF NCAR in their courses in Earth systems science and related areas. Classroom allocations can also be used for shorter-t...