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Registration open: Free research computing facilitation workshop

May 23, 2023

Registration is open and free for the Virtual Residency 2023 Summer Introductory Workshop on Research Computing Facilitation from June 26–30 via Zoom. The introductory workshop is intended for those who want to be more effective at helping researchers and educators use research cyberinfrastructure. The only prerequisite is having an interest in helping researchers with their computing-intens...

Derecho weekly update

May 22, 2023

Derecho’s Acceptance Test Phase (ATP) was paused last week to allow HPE system engineers to focus on debugging the system and to resolve job launch failures, Slingshot network issues, and performance variability. While HPE has fully resolved the job launch failures, we continue to observe performance variability of select workloads and HPE is working to resolve the remaining performance issues....

No system downtimes for week of May 22 - 26

May 19, 2023

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

No system downtimes for week of May 15 - 19

May 15, 2023

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

May 24 tutorial for new users to NCAR supercomputing

May 11, 2023 Updated: May 15, 2023

A CISL Consulting Services Group (CSG) tutorial from 1 to 2:30 p.m. MDT on Wednesday, May 24, will introduce new users to the Cheyenne high-performance computing system and the Casper cluster for data analysis, visualization, and machine learning. Topics that CSG’s Mea Trahan will cover include: • What HPC systems are available at NCAR and how to access them • Basics of job submission in a ba...

Derecho weekly update

May 15, 2023

The availability testing portion of Derecho’s Acceptance Test Phase (ATP) continued last week and Derecho is meeting availability requirements with an average of 30,000 jobs running on the system daily and fewer than 75 daily failures. The Derecho project team continues working on two primary application-related issues with HPE subject matter experts. The first issue is that intermittent launch...