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Search for relevant documentation with the "Search" field at upper-right or use one of the service desk links below to submit a help request (login required). Where a login is required, use your NCAR/UCAR username and CIT password. Users who do not have CIT passwords (non-NCAR/UCAR staff members, for example) can reset their passwords here or call 303-497-2400 for assistance.

NCAR Help Desk Resources

Research Computing help desk

Contact the help desk for assistance with Derecho, Casper, and related data-storage systems.

Enterprise Service Desk staff support

The Enterprise Service Desk portal is for NCAR/UCAR staff who need support for internal IT services.

CISL staff ask that you provide the information listed below when you report the failure of a Derecho or Casper job. This information will help us find a solution as quickly as possible.

Best Practices for Support Tickets

When submitting a support ticket please include as much detail as possible to enable quicker resolution. It is also important to preserve any input files, binaries and executables in the directories as they were when the problem occurred.

  • Resource name (Derecho, Casper, JupyterHub,...),

  • Exact error messages and/or paths to error output,

  • Batch script location,

  • PBS JobID(s) of failed effort,

  • Run & source directory paths (ideally UNIX-readable by ‘others’),

  • Any other pertinent information:

    • Last time this exact workflow was successful, if any (or changes since last success),

    • Troubleshooting steps already attempted, etc.

And please remember to let us know when your issue is resolved!

https://rchelp.ucar.edu

Getting Connected

NCAR HPC Users' Group

The NCAR HPC Users’ Group, NHUG, is a dedicated community that aims to promote the productive use of high-performance computing (HPC) facilities at NCAR and increase collaboration among all of the NCAR HPC community.

NHUG is open to all HPC users and holds monthly meetings featuring different HPC-related topics. See the NHUG page for additional details.

Daily Bulletin

If you are not already receiving the Daily Bulletin, use this link to subscribe:

https://ncar.pub/CISL-Daily-Bulletin-subscribe

New users of our HPC systems are subscribed automatically.

Sundog

The CISL on Sundog intranet space is open to all NCAR and UCAR staff, who log in using a CIT password.

What to do:

  1. Use this link to go to the CISL Sundog space.

  2. Log in if you haven't already done so.

  3. Click the Submit button under "Joining Instructions." (Required only once.)