Dear users, Please note the following updates for your attention: Tape service maintenance 26/27 October 2021 There will be a downtime for tape services (affecting Elastic Tape, JDMA and the Near-Line Archive service) on Wednesday 27th October, to apply essential updates. All tape activity will need to be stopped during the work, so in order to drain the system, these services will be unavailable to users from Tuesday 26th October until the work is completed on Wednesday afternoon. ...

The 6th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project ( CMIP6 ) is an international coordinated effort to understand how the climate has changed in the past and may change in the future. It is the largest climate model intercomparison project to date and is coming to completion. Data produced by CMIP6 is essential to the 2021 assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). CEDA supports CMIP6 by providing archival, management and publication of all received data and providing analysis capabilities through JASMIN. ...

Reminder: System Maintenance planned for 5th October 2021. Scheduled maintenance is planned for Tuesday 5th October 2021, which will cause some disruption to JASMIN and CEDA services. Systems will be “at risk” and may be unavailable for all or part of the day. ...

Dear Users, We have been informed by the site network team for JASMIN’s host institution, RAL, that on Wednesday 29th September (tomorrow), the RAL site firewall will be upgraded. This work will be carried out between 07:00 and 09:00 BST. This upgrade will cause 2 short breaks (<1 minute) as the firewall is updated, but during the 2 hour upgrade window, access to systems should be considered at risk. Although brief, these interruptions may affect all CEDA and JASMIN services. ...

The below issue is now resolved. We are currently experiencing some issues with the following CEDA Archive service: dap.ceda.ac.uk This will be causing some issues when you try to download data. You can still access and download data via FTP. See details about this here . We are working on resolving these issues and will update progress on here ASAP. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. CEDA team ...

Please note the following JASMIN announcements for your attention: 1) Issues affecting access to JASMIN Cloud via portal and SSH currently under investigation. We are currently aware of some issues affecting management of virtual machines via the JASMIN Cloud Portal. The issues are being investigated with cooperation from the platform vendor. As far as we are aware, the virtual machines themselves are running normally and are still accessible via SSH. If you are a cloud tenancy admin and are aware of any further problems, please report these to the JASMIN Helpdesk. ...

Experts at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) have launched a new technical blog for sharing expertise about how we manage petabytes of data. The CEDA team has a wealth of expertise in world-leading data management practices and software engineering that we use to support the environmental science community. We want to share our knowledge, best practices and lessons learnt with others - so have launched a new CEDA Technical Blog . This blog aims to showcase how our team uses open source tools to efficiently manage multi-petabytes of environmental data and collaborate with international research projects working on society’s most pressing environmental issues. ...

We have two new opportunities for graduates to join the CEDA team. Follow the links below for more information and how to apply. ...

Dear users Please note the following JASMIN updates: 1) Tape services maintenance 13-14 September Tape services including Elastic Tape and the Near-Line Archive service will be unavailable due to system maintenance/upgrade work on 13th & 14th September. User recalls and ingest of data will be stopped at 12:00 on Monday 13th September ahead of maintenance work on Tuesday 14th September. ...