Scheduled maintenance work today has progressed well but some tasks will require extending the maintenance window into tomorrow Wednesday 1st February 2023. ...

Dear JASMIN user, We will be hosting a webinar on Tuesday 31st January 2023 at 10:30 about JASMIN’s new GPU cluster, ORCHID. The event will provide information about ORCHID itself, as well as hearing from recent test users about their experiences with it. Users of other research GPU clusters will also talk about their use cases and experience. ...

Interruption to tape services (including week of 16-20 Jan) The tape library is now functioning but with only one robot so performance is reduced. Please avoid using for now, as any jobs remaining over the weekend will likely need to be stopped ahead of scheduled maintenance due start on Monday 16th Jan for four days. Tape services should therefore be considered at reduced performance for now, but fully unavailable for most/all of next week. This affects Elastic Tape, JDMA, and Near-Line Archive (NLA) services. ...

We have been busy preparing a schedule of events for the final 6 months of the UKRI Net Zero Digital Research Infrastructure Scoping Project with the aims of sharing findings, gathering further evidence and gaining greater consensus. Details of our first few events are below. Please register to attend and/or share widely with your networks! Further events will be announced in due course. ...

We have a new exciting job opportunity to join our team. Further details at the link below. Storage Ops and User Support (deadline - 29 January 2023) Please contact the helpdesk if you need any additional information. ...

Interruption to tape services: The tape library is currently out of service due to essential maintenance work. It had been hoped that the work involved could be carried out without an interruption to users but unfortunately this is now not the case: apologies for the short notice. This affects Elastic Tape, JDMA, and Near-Line Archive (NLA) services. ...

Dear JASMIN user, We will be hosting a webinar on Tuesday 31st January 2023 at 10:30 about JASMIN’s new GPU cluster, ORCHID. The event will provide information about ORCHID itself, as well as hearing from recent test users about their experiences with it. Users of other research GPU clusters will also talk about their use cases and experience. ...

Dear users, Further to our earlier message, issues with the affected storage volumes are currently being resolved. Some are now available again while the root cause is still being investigated. ...

Dear users, Several Group Workspace volumes are currently not accessible because of a metadata server issue. The issue is currently being investigated with the storage vendor. ...