CISL Daily Bulletin

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Derecho weekly update

May 9, 2023

The availability testing portion of Derecho’s Acceptance Test Phase (ATP) began at 0900 on May 3, 2023 and system availability requirements are being met so far. For the last four weeks, the Derecho project team and HPE subject matter experts have been working around the clock to resolve various challenges with faulty hardware and the software stack, particularly with the Slingshot network, the...

No system downtimes for week of May 8 - 12

May 8, 2023

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

No system downtimes for week of May 1 - 5

May 1, 2023

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

HPC users invited to May 2 NHUG user group meeting

April 27, 2023

All NCAR HPC users are invited to the NCAR HPC User Group (NHUG) monthly meeting from 9 to 10 a.m. MDT on Tuesday, May 2. CISL staff will give an overview of a prototype hybrid/on-prem cloud pilot project and provide recent updates and preliminary benchmarking results on the status of the Derecho system. To contribute to the agenda or submit questions for the meeting, please visit Slido, where...

How to get help visualizing research data

April 27, 2023

Researchers who want help visualizing data to demonstrate the results of their scientific computing can request expert assistance and collaboration from CISL. This service is available to researchers using specialized applications on data analysis and visualization resources that CISL manages. CISL visualization staff have special expertise in CISL-developed software such as VAPOR but are open ...

Register by May 12 for Pythia Cook-off 2023

April 27, 2023

Those interested in learning how to create collections of Jupyter Notebooks called “cookbooks” for scientific workflows are invited to attend a June 20-23 Project Pythia hackathon either in person at the Mesa Lab in Boulder or remotely. The Cookbook Cook-off is open to participants with all experience levels. Cookbooks provide educational context and BinderHub cloud resources to help users lear...