CISL Daily Bulletin

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No system downtimes for week of December 12 - 16

December 12, 2022

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

First Derecho hardware delivered and installed at NWSC

December 9, 2022

The first CPU racks for NCAR’s new supercomputer, Derecho, arrived at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) on December 6. Once the full system is received at the NWSC and acceptance testing is completed, Derecho will become available to early users in the spring. See this CISL article for more information.

Women in IT: Time to apply for 2023 network program

December 8, 2022

The Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program is now accepting applications for the 2023 program. The WINS program provides an immersive “hands-on” mentorship opportunity for early- to mid-career women in the IT field. Those selected will participate in the ground-up construction of SCinet for the Supercomputing Conference (SC) to be held in Denver, Colorado, in November 2023. WINS strives t...

AI training opportunity to address climate-related issues

December 7, 2022

The Convergence Research (CORE) Institute is accepting applications to its “Tackling Climate-Induced Challenges with AI” training program through January 8, 2023. Selected applicants will participate in the six-week virtual program in the spring. Funded by the NSF’s Convergence Accelerator, the CORE Institute provides graduate student, early-career, and mid-career researchers and practitioners...

HPC systems maintenance downtime January 17-20

December 5, 2022

NCAR’s HPC resources will be unavailable to users on January 17-20 while CISL staff reconfigure the high-performance network to accommodate the Derecho supercomputer and perform urgent maintenance on Cheyenne’s cooling infrastructure. Progress will be communicated through Notifier emails during the week. The network maintenance will make all of these resources temporarily unavailable during the...

December 13 tutorial introduces new users to NCAR supercomputing

December 5, 2022

A CISL Consulting Services Group (CSG) tutorial from 1 to 2 p.m. MST on Tuesday, December 13, will introduce new users to the Cheyenne high-performance computing system and the Casper cluster for data analysis, visualization, and machine learning. Topics that CSG’s Mea Trahan will cover include: • What HPC systems are available at NCAR and how to access them • Basics of job submission in a batc...