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Apply by Jan. 31 for the Women in IT Networking Program (WINS) for SC25

January 2, 2025

The Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program is now accepting applications for 2025. Since 2015, the WINS program has provided an immersive “hands-on” mentorship opportunity for early- to mid-career women in the IT field. Each awardee will receive a SCinet team, mentor, travel funding, ongoing support, and career development opportunities. Awardees are selected to participate in the groun...

Attend an NSF NCAR agency update on cyberinfrastructure at AMS 2025

December 23, 2024

On Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm CT (which is 11:15 am to 12:15 pm MT), join NSF NCAR for an agency update on its advanced computing, data services, software, and educational resources for Earth systems science. The event will take place in-person at the 2025 American Meteorological Society Conference (AMS 2025) at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Parti...

HPC System Maintenance - February 11-12

December 20, 2024

Derecho, Casper and the /glade/derecho/scratch file system will be unavailable Tuesday-Wednesday February 11-12. The primary objective for this outage is to apply necessary software updates to Destor, the storage subsystem serving /glade/derecho/scratch. This maintenance requires disconnecting compute clients as well. During the entirety of the outage compute nodes will be down for both Der...

Register for GeoCAT’s hybrid short course at AMS 2025

December 18, 2024

On Sunday, January 12, 2025, from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm CST (or 7:00 am to 11:00 am MST), join the GeoCAT team for “Data Visualization in Python: Leveraging Community Tools for Earth System Science Across Scales.” This hybrid short course is taking place at the 105th AMS Annual Meeting at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, and will also be offered online. Data visualization is a...

Research Computing Holiday Support Schedule

December 16, 2024

In 2024, both Christmas and New Year’s Day fall midweek, resulting in reduced HPC support during the final two weeks of the year. The Research Computing Help Desk will operate with limited staffing and adjusted hours as follows: • Tuesday, December 24th: Closing at 12:00 PM MST • Wednesday, December 25th: Closed • Tuesday, December 31st: Closing at 12:00 PM MST • Wednesday, January 1st: Closed ...

NWSC Facility Maintenance and Extended HPC System Downtime - June 2-6 2025

December 16, 2024

CISL staff will be performing necessary facility maintenance at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) in early June to replace components within the power and cooling systems that have reached the end of serviceable life after more than a decade in operation. This critical but infrequent maintenance requires a favorable weather window as much of the work must be performed outdoors. Dur...