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Reminder: Cheyenne will be unavailable December 27-30

December 21, 2021 Updated: December 27, 2021

The Cheyenne system’s compute nodes will be unavailable for running batch jobs for three days beginning the morning of Monday, December 27. The downtime is necessary to allow CISL staff to perform thorough testing of recently installed power system components to support Derecho and other associated systems. Cheyenne’s login nodes and the Casper cluster are expected to be available throughout th...

System downtimes for week of December 27 - 31

December 27, 2021

The Cheyenne compute nodes will be quiesced and no jobs will be allowed to run December 27th through December 30th to allow for some power work to be done at NWSC. None planned for Casper, Glade, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

Survey of geoscience faculty DEI efforts seeks input

December 20, 2021

The University of Oklahoma is conducting a survey of all U.S. university geoscience departments to learn about faculty efforts supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). The survey is designed to collect information about ongoing DEI efforts and faculty motivations around DEI work to help identify promising practices that can be shared through webinars, publications, and other resources...

System downtimes for week of December 20 - 24

December 20, 2021

Downtime is scheduled for Quasar tomorrow, December 21st, from approximately 9:00 am to 10:00 am. None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, Glade, Campaign Storage, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

Holiday schedule for Help Desk and Consulting Services

December 17, 2021

The CISL Help Desk team and Consulting Services Group will be taking December 24 and 31 off so staff members can enjoy the holidays along with the rest of NCAR and UCAR. Users can still submit help requests as needed or call 303-497-2400 to report issues that might require attention during the weekend.

Apply by December 22 for GPU hackathon

December 16, 2021

CISL encourages current and future users of NCAR’s GPU computing resources to participate in training and code-development events like the upcoming GPU hackathon hosted by NOAA and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. The hackathon is scheduled for February 28 to March 2, 2022, with one day set for introductions the prior week. Both AI and classic HPC-based modeling groups with codes at...