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1 October 2026 • 2 min read • News
JASMIN updates October 2026
Please see the following notices for your attention:
JASMIN scheduled maintenance day Tuesday 6th October 2026
A regular, scheduled maintenance day is planned for Tuesday 6th October 2026. This will affect all JASMIN and CEDA services.
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7 July 2026 • 4 min read • News
JASMIN updates July 2026
Please note the following updates for your attention:
JASMIN scheduled maintenance day Tuesday 14th July 2026 STFC Cloud outage this week 6-10 July Recent power & storage issues Storage migration & need for GWS cleanup Try using inter partition as alternative to sci servers JASMIN scheduled maintenance day Tuesday 14th July 2026 A regular, scheduled maintenance day is planned for Tuesday 14th July 2026. This will affect all JASMIN and CEDA services.
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28 May 2026 • 5 min read • News
Data Recovery Incident - Final update
On Tuesday 18th November 2025, during the migration of data in the CEDA Archive, a mistake was made that resulted in just over 3PB out of 27PB being removed from the online archive. This is a final update on this incident, with follow-on work now incorporated into business-as-usual activities, like ongoing investigation of corrupt files.
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28 May 2026 • 4 min read • News
JASMIN updates May 2026
Please note the following updates for your attention:
Important information for IDL users Interactive jobs vs sci servers JASMIN scheduled maintenance day Tuesday 14th July Storage migration progress and reminder to use new paths Security advice Important information for IDL users If you are a user of the IDL software on JASMIN, you should have received an email with important information about ongoing provision of IDL on JASMIN. If you haven’t received this, please contact support@jasmin.ac.uk as soon as possible.
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26 March 2026 • 5 min read • News
JASMIN updates Easter 2026
Please note the following updates for your attention:
New high memory nodes (6TB RAM) added to LOTUS ORCHID restructured - new resource limit and new Slurm partition LOTUS restructured - new interactive partition (pilot) JASMIN scheduled maintenance day Tuesday 14th April Closure of legacy VIO7 cloud platform Storage migration progress XFC guidance update Easter holiday period New high memory nodes A set of high memory nodes was added to the LOTUS cluster. Each node has 6TB of physical memory and 192 CPU cores. This is considered a special resource and access is controlled via the access role additional services : lotus-special on the JASMIN accounts portal. A new partition called special is able to submit jobs to the new set of nodes, with access controlled by holding the above access role. Further details of the special partition including resource limits/QoS are documented here .
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11 March 2026 • 5 min read • News
JASMIN updates March 2026
Please note the following updates for your attention:
New high memory nodes (6TB RAM) added to LOTUS ORCHID restructured - new resource limit and new Slurm partition LOTUS restructured - new interactive partition (pilot) JASMIN scheduled maintenance day Tuesday 14th April Closure of legacy VIO7 cloud platform Storage migration progress New high memory nodes A set of high memory nodes was added to the cluster LOTUS. Each node has 6TB of physical memory and 192 CPU cores. This is considered a special resource and access is controlled via the access role additional services : lotus-special on the JASMIN accounts portal. A new partition called special is able to submit jobs to the new set of nodes, with access controlled by holding the above access role. Further details of the special partition including resource limits/QoS are documented here .
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2 February 2026 • 2 min read • News
JASMIN Notebook Service Environment Updates
Dear JASMIN Users,
We are making some changes to the software environments provided by the JASMIN notebook service, in order to make it more compatible with the environment on the rest of JASMIN. The environments provided on the notebook service will now be identical to that provided on the sci machines and LOTUS.
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