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Allinea advanced debugging workshop scheduled for Sept. 24
September 24, 2014

CISL has scheduled an “Advanced Usage of Allinea Tools” class on Wednesday, Sept. 24, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the VisLab at the NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder. The class will provide a quick review of Allinea DDT and MAP core features and then provide hands-on exercises using advanced and additional features and concepts that were not covered in the introductory course in August.  

A significant portion of the day will be dedicated to using DDT and MAP to review or find issues in participants’ own codes. Participants who have specific bug or performance issues will have an opportunity to share their display via overhead projector and work as a class to find resolutions.

If you have not worked with Allinea tools or did not attend the basic class in August, log in to Yellowstone and work through the self-guided tutorial materials in /glade/u/home/paisley/demo_package/ before attending the advanced class. Also see Running Allinea DDT, MAP and PR jobs to begin using the Allinea tools on Yellowstone.

Space is limited. Please register here to attend.

Scheduled Maintenance for the Week of September 15 - 19
September 19, 2014

HPSS: Downtime Tuesday, September 16 from 7:00 am - 11:00 am

No Scheduled Downtime:  Yellowstone, Geyser_Caldera, GLADE

HPSS class Sept. 17: Using your terabyte-years wisely
September 18, 2014

CISL is offering a one-hour class and webcast at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, to help users get the most from their High Performance Storage System (HPSS) allocations. The class will be in the VisLab at the NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder.

Erich Thanhardt of CISL’s Mass Storage Systems Group will give participants a look “under the hood” of HPSS and review best practices and procedures for using the system, where allocations are made and charged in terms of terabyte-years. Topics will include deciding when data should (and should not) be archived to HPSS; how to archive large data sets most efficiently; and how best to retrieve files from the system.

Register to attend in person or via webcast by selecting a link below:

REMINDER: Upcoming deadline Sept 15 for large university allocation requests
September 17, 2014

Deadline September 15, 2014, for large university requests for NCAR computing resources

NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) invites NSF-supported university researchers in the atmospheric, oceanic, and related sciences to submit large allocation requests for the Yellowstone system by September 15, 2014. All requesters are strongly encouraged to review the instructions at https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/chap before preparing their submissions.

For the Yellowstone system, computational requests greater than 200,000 core-hours are considered "large." Smaller requests for up to 200,000 core-hours are accepted any time and are typically reviewed within two business days; visit the allocations web page for details.

The large requests will be reviewed by the CISL High-performance computing Allocations Panel (CHAP), and there must be a direct linkage between the researcher's NSF award and the computational research being proposed. Visit http://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/docs/allocations/university for more university allocation instructions and opportunities.

Allocations will be made on Yellowstone, NCAR's 1.5-petaflops IBM iDataPlex system, the data analysis and visualization clusters (Geyser and Caldera), the 11-PB GLADE disk resource, and the HPSS archive. See https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/resources/yellowstone for more system details.

Questions may be addressed to: David Hart, User Services Manager, 303-497-1234 alloc@ucar.edu

HPSS extended downtime on Tuesday, Sept. 16
September 17, 2014

CISL has scheduled an extended downtime for the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) — from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16 — to prepare for the fall Mesa Lab shutdown on Saturday, Oct. 11. Information on the potential impact of the October shutdown on HPSS and other systems that CISL manages will be published as details become available.

Video of Fortran preprocessor presentation now on SEA web site
September 8, 2014

A presentation on the CoCo Fortran preprocessor by the CISL Consulting Services Group’s Dan Nagle is now available on the UCAR Software Engineering Assembly’s web site. Nagle is chair of the PL22.3 (formerly J3) Fortran Standard Committee. See Fortran Preprocessor for the video.

Scheduled Maintenance for the Week of September 2 - 5
September 5, 2014

No Scheduled Downtime:  Yellowstone, Geyser_Caldera, GLADE, HPSS

XSEDE “Big Data” programming workshop Sept. 2 at NCAR
September 2, 2014

NCAR’s Mesa Lab in Boulder will be one of several satellite sites for a one-day “Big Data” XSEDE workshop on Tuesday, Sept. 2. The workshop, presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, will focus on such topics as the Hadoop system, Spark platform, and Sherlock system.

See the XSEDE User Portal for more information and to register to attend at NCAR or another XSEDE site.

“Python for Scientists” recordings, slides now available
August 29, 2014

Video, slides, and IPython Notebook files from the August 21 “Python for Scientists” course are now available on the CISL web site. See the course page for more information.

If you have suggestions for other training topics that you would find useful, please let us know via our feedback form.

Scheduled Maintenance for the Week of August 18 - 22
August 22, 2014

HPSS: Downtime Tuesday, August 19 from 7:00 am - 4:00 pm

No Scheduled Downtime:  Yellowstone, Geyser_Caldera, GLADE

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