CISL Daily Bulletin

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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...

Default Cheyenne and Casper modules being updated Monday

December 16, 2021

Reminder: CISL will update a number of default environment modules on the Cheyenne and Casper systems on Monday, December 20. • The default Intel version will advance from 19.0.5 to 19.1.1. • The default netCDF will advance from 4.7.4 to 4.8.1. • The GCC and NVIDIA HPC compilers will have default versions set to 10.1.0 and 21.9. • CUDA 11.4.0 will be added to the default set of modules on Caspe...

PEARC22 accepting content submissions, seeking reviewers

December 16, 2021

The PEARC22 Technical Program Committee has invited the community to submit content to the PEARC22 technical program. The first submission deadline is for tutorials and workshops on January 21, 2022. The full paper deadline has been moved to February 18 to allow for any full paper that is declined for acceptance to be resubmitted as a short paper on April 8. See the PEARC Call For Proposals for...

Image from a Hurricane Odile simulation in the CISL Visualization Gallery

How to get help visualizing research data

December 14, 2021

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 ...