SCD News

   

Announcements 2002

     
Fall
     
12.09  
GAU charges lowered for hold queues on blackforest
     
12.03   Terascale Performance Analysis Workshop issues call for papers
     
11.27   Only 10 batch nodes available for babyblue users
     
11.25   NCAR Mass Storage System passes 1 petabyte of stored data
     
11.21   Questions for SCD consultants: Please use email through 21 December
     
11.15   NCAR supercomputer joins top 10 of world's fastest
     
11.08   Findsub utility removed from chinookfe and dataproc
     
10.29   Place your own interlibrary loan order for books
     
10.28   XLF complier patch installed on babyblue
     
10.28   Fall powerdown to cause service interruptions on 9 November
     
10.07   Bluesky is online
     
Summer
     
09.26   New IBM 'bluesky' system to be delivered 2 October 2002
     
09.26   ARCS bluesky system passes Live Test Demonstration
     
09.19   XL Complier 8.1 is default on babyblue
     
09.10   SCD Strategic Initiatives available on web
     
09.09   Chipeta decommissioned
     
09.04   NCAR to more than double university computational resources in December 2002
     
08.13   Charging is in place for chinook
     
08.13   Accounts available on SGI Origin 3800, chinook
     
08.13   Chipeta to be decommissioned 3 September 2002
     
07.29   SGI 3800 chinook and SGI chinookfe now ready for users
     
07.15   9-track tape import/export to be decommissioned 3 September 2002
     
07.15   New SGI Origin 3800, chinook, replacing ute
     
07.01   Community Climate System Model-2 promises detailed picture of worldwide climate
     
Spring
     
06.28   Ute decommisioned on 15 July 2002; new SGI Origin 3800 to replace ute
     
06.28   Dataproc and mouache 24-hour downtime scheduled for 15 July 2002
     
06.24   Two seminars on using AccessGrid technology to be offered on 10 July 2002
     
06.21   NCL workshop to be held 16-18 July 2002
     
06.21   Chipeta decommission date moved to 03 September 2002
     
06.17   DAVE offers more efficient postprocessing platform than dataproc
     
06.05   Help SCD quantify spam problem
     
06.05   Job charging changes begin 1 July 2002
     
05.30   How to access research literature through the NCAR Library
     
05.30   NCAR Library provides online access to AGU journals
     
05.30   Find full-text articles in Physical Review Online Archives
     
05.16   Fortran compilers on IBM SPs currently at XL Fortran level 7.1.1.2
     
05.14   SCD Consulting Office opening one hour later during construction
     
05.10   Babyblue LoadLeveler keyword changes required 03 June
     
05.09   Try Geobase to find chemical, environmental, and related work
     
05.06   Sign up for web email lists!
     
05.03   SCD announces a new data analysis and postprocessing computer: DAVE
     
04.22   New, improved user documents for blackforest
     
04.17   Place your own interlibrary loan order for books
     
04.15   Compilers on IBM SPs at XL Fortran level 7.1.1.2
     
04.15   Email Query/Change utility has moved
     
04.12   New deadline for Climate Simulation Laboratory proposals is May 20
     
04.12   Mailing list manager changes
     
04.10   New Class of Service option available for Mass Storage Files
     
04.10   NCL and NCAR Graphics are available for Mac OS X systems
     
04.04   Demo of Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts database to be held
     
Winter
     
03.22   Babyblue pmtoolkit and hpmcount products now upgraded
     
03.22   Charge reduced for interactive use on blackforest
     
03.13   Climate Simulation Laboratory is seeking proposals
     
03.05   Blackforest software products have been upgraded
     
03.05   DCS 3.3 upgrade set for 11 March 2002
     
03.05   Economy queue added to blackforest and babyblue
     
02.28   Local RAS lines will time out after six hours of no activity
     
02.18   Virus scanning implemented within UCAR
     
02.13   Prospect decommissioned
     
02.06   UCAR web security to improve after 8 February
     
01.24   Find citations to recently published articles in ingenta
     
01.23   Prospect remains down; users encouraged to use IBM SP
     
01.16   Prospect will remain down until the first week of February
     
01.15   Flint available on babyblue: evaluation help needed
     
01.07   Deadline for allocation requests extended to 22 January
     
01.07   Foreign language audio cassettes available from NCAR Library
     
01.03   Use /ptmp instead of /tmp on dataproc
     
01.03   GAU overrun policy for NCAR divisional accounts to change
     
01.02   Workshop on performance tuning for microprocessor-based systems to be offered on 17 January
     
01.02   Computational resources for university community have doubled