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February 10, 2021 • 1 min read • News
Job opportunity - JASMIN Software Developer
Job opportunity - JASMIN Software Developer
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to contribute to the evolution of JASMIN – our globally unique facility for data-intensive computing for the environmental sciences. You will be working with world experts developing innovative technical solutions to address the challenge of building, growing and maintaining an infrastructure to support the needs of researchers in their work processing and analysing complex, high volume scientific data. ...
February 10, 2021 • 1 min read • News
Problems with Elastic Tape
We have recently been having lots of problems with the Elastic Tape system. This has resulted in the failure of both ingesting and retrieving data.
We are actively investigating this, in conjunction with our colleagues in the Scientific Computing Department.
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February 4, 2021 • 1 min read • News
File corruption issues
Dear users
As reported last week, we have been dealing with an issue of apparent file corruption affecting a relatively small number of files in some volumes with paths beginning /gws/nopw/j04.
We have been receiving assistance from the storage vendor to resolve the issue and are now in a position to announce that the majority of affected files have now been successfully repaired, with no loss of user data. A process to scrub/repair a remaining list of some 1,281 files (as of earlier today) is now underway and should complete over the coming weekend. 1.4 billion files have now been checked by this process.
The vendor has provided further updated software releases which have been applied and we are now confident that once the above process has been completed, there should be no further cause for concern.
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February 1, 2021 • 1 min read • News
Update to high-performance data transfer services
Dear users,
You will be aware that many JASMIN and CEDA services were redeployed from RHEL6 to CentOS7 operating systems last year. The final few services - those deployed on physical servers in the JASMIN Data Transfer Zone - are now nearly ready for user access, so please note the following if you make use of these services:
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January 28, 2021 • 4 min read • News
JASMIN helps track the impact of climate change on UK birds
Over 600 different species of birds have been recorded in the UK to date[1] . For many of them formal monitoring is limited or absent. British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) ask for volunteers from the public to report nature observations from around the UK on mobile apps or online data entries such as BirdTrack . This is important because estimating bird distributions and population trends increases our knowledge about bird species or their habitats. Over 60,000 volunteers are involved recording bird species, resulting in a massive amount of data collected - in 2020 alone over 7.5 million records have been submitted to BirdTrack. Researchers at BTO have been using JASMIN to carry out statistical analysis on these data in order to better understand the reliability of Citizen Science data and the changes in UK bird populations that can be inferred from it.
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January 26, 2021 • 1 min read • News
File corruption issues
Dear users
We are aware of reports of apparent file corruption affecting a relatively small number of files in some volumes with paths beginning /gws/nopw/j04.
We have been receiving assistance from the storage vendor to resolve the issue and measures are now underway to repair affected files. As we understand the situation at present, no action is needed by users at this time.
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