News
December 17, 2021 • 1 min read • News
Vacancies Head of CEDA, Project Manager, JASMIN Director
We have three new exciting job opportunities to join our team. Further details are at the links below.
Head of Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (deadline extended to 23rd January) Project Manager (deadline extended to 16th January) JASMIN Director (deadline 23rd January) Please contact the helpdesk if you need any additional information. ...
December 14, 2021 • 1 min read • News
Tape services unavailable after 1700 today (14 Dec), network at risk 15 Dec
Dear Users,
In line with recent announcements regarding “at risk” status of tape services, please be aware that at 17:00 today, access to tape services will be closed in advance of RAL network reconfiguration work tomorrow Wednesday 15th December.
A network intervention planned for tomorrow (17:00-21:00) should not affect most JASMIN services, but there is the possibility of some disruption. Access to tape services is being paused to minimise the risk of tape operations over-running into the intervention period.
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December 3, 2021 • 1 min read • News
JASMIN Issues with scratch and some other storage volumes, limited LOTUS support
Dear users,
We are aware of an issue with some PFS storage volumes, including:
/work/scratch-pw (but not /work/scratch-pw2) /gws/pw/j05/ncas_obs (possibility of other volumes /gws/pw/j05/*) These volumes may be temporarily unavailable. LOTUS users are advised to use /work/scratch-pw2 while this is investigated with the storage vendor.
Please note that due to staff cover, response time on queries to the helpdesk may be slower than usual and we may not be able to respond to all queries individually. Please look out for further announcements.
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November 30, 2021 • 2 min read • News
CEDA leads UKRI’s net zero computing goals
The CEDA team are leading efforts in the UK’s research and innovation sector to reach net zero computing. Our data experts will recommend a plan to ensure all the digital tools used throughout the sector, from supercomputers to phones, will be carbon neutral by 2040. ...
November 12, 2021 • 1 min read • News
Vacancy data specialist job opportunity at NCAS
There is an exciting new opportunity based at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) as a Data Specialist. The role will work closely with our team to ensure NCAS funded data is provided to the CEDA Archive. For more information about the role, look on the NCAS website. Deadline to apply is 18th November.
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November 10, 2021 • 2 min read • News
Jaspy update, new R (jasr) environment, and Notebook Service update to be released on 16/11/2021
Dear JASMIN users,
We are pleased to announce that (1) a new version of the Jaspy software environment, (2) a first (Jasr) R environment and an (3) update to the JASMIN Notebook Service software (using Jaspy) will be released on JASMIN on Tuesday 16th November.
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November 4, 2021 • 3 min read • News
Sentinel data variety and volume
The CEDA Archive now holds over 10 Petabytes of satellite data from the Sentinels this increases in volume at over 7 Terabytes per day. We provide a mirror archive for Sentinel products, duplicating the ESA archives so that data products required by the Earth observation community are easily accessible. We update 13 Sentinel products daily with another 8 being updated monthly - many of these products are essential for researchers studying global issues such as sea surface temperature, air quality, and land-use change. ...