News
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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January 7, 2021 • 1 min read • News
Helpdesk email issue please use beacon has now been resolved
UPDATE: The following email issue on the helpdesk has now been resolved.
Dear users
We are aware today of an issue affecting emails to our helpdesks ( support@ceda.ac.uk, support@jasmin.ac.uk and data.management@ceda.ac.uk).
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January 5, 2021 • 3 min read • News
Update COVID-19 impact on CEDA and JASMIN operations
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, we announced that all of our services should be considered at risk. Thankfully, our services have run largely as normal throughout the pandemic, but 10 months on, unfortunately, this ‘at risk’ status still stands. See below for details about how we anticipate it will continue to affect us and you.
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December 16, 2020 • 3 min read • News
CEDA 2020 highlights our work behind the scenes
Satellites and climate models are renowned for their ability to produce large amounts of data - as such, the CEDA Archive handles the largest datasets amongst the NERC Environmental Data Service (NERC’s collection of environmental data centres). Big data is not just a challenge for the CEDA Archive; the other NERC data centres are increasingly in discussions with researchers who have data that is too large for their infrastructures. As CEDA is at the forefront of development of infrastructure and services for large data volumes we have been sharing and integrating this knowledge across the NERC EDS. Here we highlight four different pieces of work that are ongoing behind the scenes to adapt to our big data challenges. ...
December 16, 2020 • 3 min read • News
Helping users get the most out of JASMIN in 2020
JASMIN is a large and multi-faceted research facility that continues to grow in response to demand from growing numbers of users from a wide range of academic communities. Helping users get the most out of JASMIN is an important part of our remit. Here we highlight four different activities that have been undertaken by the JASMIN team in 2020.
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