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Casper V100 nodes being updated today

January 14, 2022

CISL HPC engineers will perform maintenance on three of the Casper cluster’s GPU nodes this morning beginning at 9 a.m. MST. Three of the system’s five 8xV100 nodes (each of which hosts eight NVIDIA V100 GPUs) will be unavailable for approximately three hours. The other two 8xV100 nodes will remain available, as will other Casper GPU nodes identified in this system documentation.

Registration open for CISL GPU-computing training series

January 11, 2022

To help the NCAR and university research communities prepare to use the extensive GPU-computing capabilities of the new Derecho system, CISL is launching a series of workshops and tutorials on Thursday, February 3, at 10 a.m. MST for scientists, software engineers, and students in the Earth system sciences. The series of one-hour sessions will be held every two weeks through August using the Zo...

ARC portal gets new user-friendly features

January 11, 2022

The Advanced Research Computing (ARC) portal has some new capabilities to help users find information and get the help they need. Users and prospective users can also submit and manage their allocation requests right from the portal with the new Allocation Submission application. Following some updates and early user feedback, a new beta version of the app is available again on the platform. Al...

No system downtimes for week of January 10-14

January 7, 2022

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

ISS Conference seeking abstracts for 2022

January 6, 2022

Abstracts are being accepted now through January 31 for the 2022 Improving Scientific Software Conference. The annual conference organized by the UCAR Software Engineering Assembly (SEA) will take place April 4-8 as a virtual-only event. Visit the SEA site for details.

Deadline extended for SIParCS internship applications

December 28, 2021 Updated: January 5, 2022

Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIParCS) is now accepting applications from undergraduate and graduate students for the 2022 program, which will run from May 16 through July 29. The application deadline has been extended to Tuesday, January 18, at 4 p.m. MST. Students can choose from among 18 technical projects on topics that include machine learning, data science, softwa...