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NCAR announced on Monday that the next supercomputer to be installed at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center will be named “Derecho.” The name was selected out of more than 200 submissions from Wyoming K-12 students as part of a competition NCAR conducted in partnership with the Wyoming Department of Education and the Wyoming Governor’s Office. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Cray EX cluster w...
The NCAR JupyterHub service will be updated on Wednesday, April 14, at approximately 6 a.m. The new service will provide expanded functionality and bring NCAR's offering up to the current generation web-based user interface for Project Jupyter. Users will be redirected to the new instance automatically as the older service is decommissioned. Any JupyterHub instances that are running when the up...
Scheduled downtime for HPSS April 13th from 7:00 - 3:00 for hardware repair of one of the libraries at the NWSC. No scheduled downtime: Cheyenne, Casper, GLADE, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus.
The NCAR/UCAR virtual Python Tutorial Seminar Series continues on Wednesday, April 14, with an introduction to Python objects at 1 p.m. MDT. See the Xdev blog for information about the series.
Video and slides from the “Starting Casper Jobs with PBS Pro" tutorial are now available here in the CISL training library. The CISL Consulting Services Group presented this tutorial in March 2021 to help Casper users transition from the Slurm scheduler to PBS Pro. Users who have experience with PBS on Cheyenne also were encouraged to attend because there are a few differences between the PBS d...
CISL staff this morning finished converting Casper nodes from using Slurm to using the PBS Pro workload manager to start jobs. With that transition complete, users now submit jobs exclusively via PBS. That includes jobs started through the NCAR JupyterHub service. The following updated documentation provides details for preparing PBS scripts and submitting jobs on Casper: • Migrating Casper jo...