CISL Daily Bulletin

The Daily Bulletin delivers news about CISL’s high-performance computing environment, training opportunities, scheduled maintenance, and other events of interest to the user community.

Changes coming to CISL’s resource allocation accounting
January 30, 2023

CISL will begin accounting for the use of GPU resources on the Casper cluster and is also revising the charging algorithm for jobs on shared CPU nodes on both Casper and Cheyenne beginning Monday, February 13. Projects that have used Casper GPU resources in the past year have all now received an initial GPU-hours allocation based on that previous use. Charges will be based on a job’s walltime. ...

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February 7-8: UCAR/NCAR hosting GlobusWorld Tour
January 25, 2023

UCAR Enterprise IT, NCAR Research IT, and CISL are co-sponsoring a Globus workshop consisting of two half-day events on Tuesday, February 7, and Wednesday, February 8. The workshop is open to UCAR/NCAR staff and outside attendees who have data transfer, data sharing, or data management needs, including researchers, software engineers, data engineers, and others.  Participants can attend remotel...

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New, improved web presence for RDA
January 24, 2023

NCAR’s Research Data Archive (RDA) has a newly redesigned website. The new site provides a modern, simplified, improved experience for users. “We’ve made it more accessible and mobile-friendly so people can browse and use most of the features from a mobile phone or tablet as well as their computers,” said Doug Schuster, manager of the CISL Data Engineering and Curation Section. “We’d like to en...

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Upcoming tutorial: Using Dask on HPC Systems
January 24, 2023

A half-day tutorial from 1 to 5 p.m. MST on Monday, February 6, will focus on the effective use of Dask on high-performance computing systems like Derecho and Casper. Presented by the CISL Consulting Services Group and the NCAR Earth System Data Science Initiative, the tutorial will start with a session for novice Dask users and continue with topics focused on intermediate use and associated be...

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Deadline March 13 for university allocation requests
January 20, 2023 Updated: January 23, 2023

CISL is now accepting allocation requests from university-based researchers for the new Derecho system as well as the Casper data analysis and visualization cluster. Those requests are due March 13. Researchers can also request Cheyenne allocations in order to complete their work on that system before it is decommissioned in December 2023. At the CISL HPC Allocations Panel (CHAP) spring 2023 me...

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HPC systems returned to service
January 20, 2023

CISL’s HPC system maintenance was completed ahead of schedule on Thursday. All general user resources have been restored to service, including Cheyenne, Casper, Campaign Storage, GLADE, Globus, Quasar, Stratus, and JupyterHub. The planned downtime allowed CISL staff to perform network reconfiguration to support the new Derecho supercomputer and to complete critical maintenance on Cheyenne’s coo...

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