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No downtime scheduled for May 10-14
May 10, 2021

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

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Q. Where should I run small jobs that only use CPUs?
May 6, 2021

A. The Casper cluster’s high-throughput computing (HTC) nodes. Why? Take a look at the specs. You’ll see that Casper has 64 HTC nodes specifically for running small batch jobs. It also has: • More shared resources than the Cheyenne share queue • A far higher concurrent-use limit for CPU cores than Cheyenne: 468 vs. 36. • More available memory, plus NVMe swap for overflow. Here’s an example sc...

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Tutorial May 12: Git and GitHub
May 5, 2021

The NCAR/UCAR virtual Xdev Seminar Series continues on Wednesday, May 12, with "Git and GitHub" at 1 p.m. MDT. Participants will learn advanced Git commands and how to solve common Git errors. See the Xdev blog for more information.

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System downtimes for week of May 3-7
May 3, 2021

No downtimes scheduled for May 3-7

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How to avoid deleting data when transferring files
April 29, 2021

Accidentally deleting data can ruin your whole day and then some. One key to avoiding this is to double- or triple-check that you have not specified the same files as both source and destination before you execute a transfer. When using the Globus web interface to transfer files, for example, activate the sync option in the Transfer & Sync Options menu. Sync can be set to allow a file transfer ...

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AI summer school scheduled for July 26-29
April 27, 2021

NCAR and the National Science Foundation AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography are jointly offering a summer school on trustworthy AI for environmental science (TAI4ES) on July 26-29 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. CDT. The summer school will be held entirely online and registration is free. Topics include Trustworthy AI, Explainable and Robust AI, Eth...

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