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Intel offers training on oneAPI development tools

January 28, 2022

Intel is offering two online training classes to help the NCAR HPC-user community leverage the latest tools from the oneAPI development environment. The session on Wednesday, February 9, will be from 8 to 10:30 a.m. MST and will cover tools for traditional C, C++, and Fortran-compiled languages. The session on Friday, February 11, from 8 to 10 a.m. MST will focus on Python and tools for AI. The...

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How to get help visualizing research data

January 28, 2022

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 ...

System downtimes for week of January 24-28

January 21, 2022

Downtime is scheduled for Quasar Tuesday, January 25th at 9:00 am MT, expected until approximately 10:00 am. None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, Glade, Campaign Storage, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

Specify ompthreads in scripts for parallel jobs

January 18, 2022

Some Cheyenne user documentation has been updated to provide more detail about the importance of specifying an ompthreads value in parallel job scripts even if they do not use OpenMP threads. See Cheyenne job script examples for more information about when this is particularly important.

No system downtimes for week of January 17 - 21

January 18, 2022

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

GPU development queue added to Casper cluster

January 18, 2022

A new submission queue called "gpudev" is now available on the Casper cluster to support GPU application development and debugging efforts. It provides rapid access to up to four V100 GPUs, avoiding the sometimes lengthy queue wait times in the "gpgpu" execution queue. Job submissions to the new queue are limited to 30 minutes walltime instead of the 24-hour limit for all other Casper submissi...