Registration is now open for Unidata's 2015 Software Training Workshop. The workshop features Unidata's display and analysis packages IDV and AWIPS-II (with GEMPAK), as well as data access and management tools including the Local Data Manager (LDM) and the THREDDS Data Server (TDS). This year's workshop will also include a session on using the Python programming language with Unidata technologies.

The workshop will be held July 20 – August 5, 2015. Individual courses last from one to three days.

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Registration for the 2015 Undiata Users Workshop is now open.

The Unidata Users Committee invites you to join Unidata staff, community members, and distinguished speakers this June in Boulder, Colorado. The goal of this year's workshop is to raise awareness of important new trends in geoscience technology, including cloud computing, data management, and the place of the Python language in geoscience computing infrastructure. The workshop is a chance for the academic community and share hands-on activities, course materials, and ideas for improving research and education.

The workshop, titled Data-Driven Geoscience: Applications, Opportunities, Trends, and Challenges, is scheduled for June 22-25, 2015.

Unidata's Motherlode demonstration server is currently in service. The machine was adversely affected by a power problem that necessitated the replacement of its power controller.

While Motherlode has been back in service since Saturday, we are still diagnosing some remaining issues that appear to have resulted from the original hardware problem. As a result, we are not yet ready to give the server a clean bill of health, and advise the community that the machine may experience additional down-time in the coming days.

We regret any inconvenience caused by interruptions in access to the demonstration server. Thank you for your patience while we finish resolving the hardware issues.

Shortly before 8 pm MDT on April 4, Unidata's Motherlode demonstration server experienced a hardware problem and stopped responding. Persistent problems have thus far prevented the machine from being returned to service.

Unidata understands that community members routinely access a variety of services provided by the Motherlode server, and Program Center staff are working to provide alternatives. Users are advised to use the services Motherlode provies (such as the THREDDS Data Server via thredds.ucar.edu and the ADDE via adde.ucar.edu) on other “Motherlode-class” machines operating in the Unidata community. Options include:

• atm.ucar.edu
• idd.ssec.wisc.edu
• lead.unidata.ucar.edu
• weather.rsmas.miami.edu

Program center staff will provide updates via the relevant community e-mail lists and this forum as information becomes available. We apologize for the inconvenience this outage may be causing.

The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 5.1u1 is available now. This release is recommended for all users.