HPSS: Downtime Tuesday, May 5, 7:00am-9:00am
No Scheduled Downtime: Yellowstone, Geyser_Caldera, GLADE
UCAR, NCAR, and NREL personnel and University of Colorado staff and computer science students are invited to attend a free, one-day training session on Intel’s Parallel Studio XE 2015 tool suite from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 7.
Intel staff members will provide the training in the Main Seminar Room at NCAR’s Mesa Lab in Boulder. Topics to be covered include the Intel MPI Library, Trace Analyzer and Collector, MPI benchmarks, compiler optimization, performance and threading analysis tools, and the Math Kernel Library.
A detailed agenda is available here.
Please register here to attend.
The training session will not be recorded or webcast.
NCL version 6.3.0 will be the default version on the Yellowstone system as of noon Tuesday, May 5.
To load the new default version after logging in, run module load ncl on your command line. Load previous versions by specifying the version number (for example, module load ncl/6.2.1).
Version 6.3.0 includes nearly 30 new functions, including:
Butterworth bandpass filter
Calculation of potential vorticity and temperature
K-means clustering via the Hartigan and Wong AS-136 algorithm
Vertical interpolation routine for WRF ARW variables
Regular expression (regex) string matching
Getting the unique values in an array
Routines for coloring streamlines based on a scalar field
Improvements to NCL’s handling of advanced file structures
Improvements and updates to the GRIB 1/2 readers
Speed-up for multiple calls to the fbinrecread function
More options on the appearance of polyline and polygons overlaid on maps
Many bug fixes
For complete details, see What's new in the current release.
Email haley@ucar.edu if you have questions or problems.
As a reminder of our earlier announcement, if the GLADE scratch file space reaches the 90% full mark again, CISL will reduce the file retention period from 90 days to 75 days as announced last month.
The scratch space has remained more than 89% full for the past several days as shown on the CISL Resource Status web page. If the 90% mark is reached, the shorter retention period will be implemented two weeks later.
We encourage users to evaluate their scratch holdings regularly and remove unnecessary files, and to use work and project spaces as alternatives, when appropriate. See GLADE file spaces for more information.
A video recording of the recent “Using the GLADE file spaces” class is now available in the CISL Course Library along with the slides that were used in that presentation. Dan Nagle, CISL Consulting Services Group, discussed the thinking behind the GLADE system, why it works the way it does, and how best to use it.
