Last year the Met Office released the “ MIDAS Open ” dataset, a publically available version of the popular, but restricted, Met Office Integrated Data Archive System ( MIDAS ) Land and Marine Surface Stations dataset. Thanks to the efforts of the MIDAS Open team at the Met Office we’ve now published an updated version of MIDAS Open, bringing in new data for 2019 and updates for some existing years too. Though aimed at being of interest to everyone, we anticipate these new data will be particularly useful for service providers or members of the public who have previously been unable to use the restricted MIDAS dataset. ...

Dear JASMIN user, The LOTUS batch processing cluster will be unavailable for the duration of the benchmark work. The SLURM batch reservation will start on Saturday 17th October from 4 PM to 8 PM. Any job submitted before that time with a running time that goes over the reservation period will not start until after the reservation has finished. Note: jobs submitted to the long-serial queue may be affected. ...

Dear JASMIN user, The LOTUS batch processing cluster will be unavailable for the duration of the benchmark work. The SLURM batch reservation will start on Saturday 10 October 4pm - 8pm and Saturday 17th October 4pm to 8pm. Any job submitted before that time with a running time that goes over the reservation period will not start until after the reservation has finished. Note: jobs submitted to the long-serial queue may be affected. ...

We will be making a quick update to opensearch.ceda.ac.uk at 13:00 today (6th October 2020). This is as part of the JASMIN migration work which has been ongoing throughout the summer. ...

Dear all, As you know we have recently seen some problems with the SLURM scheduler for the LOTUS batch processing cluster, with jobs remaining in the pending state for much longer than normal. This issue has been and remains a top priority for the JASMIN team to resolve. Here’s the current state of affairs: • Today (Monday 5 Oct) o Fair-share configuration has been adjusted to attempt to lower the priority of very large/long-running jobs (which were causing sections of the cluster to become blocked) o An even mix of user ids is now being seen with running and pending jobs, implying that jobs are now starting to flow more normally, without being dominated by any one user. o A fix to a storage client has been rolled out to some parts of JASMIN which fixes a write issue for some users (NB not necessarily related to scheduling issues) ...

The CEDA data catalogue ( catalogue.ceda.ac.uk ) will be temporarily offline at 5pm today for upto 15 minutes for a quick update. ...

Dear all, We are experiencing extremely high numbers of helpdesk queries on the JASMIN helpdesk and now have a significant backlog. ...

The following scientific analysis servers will be unavailable for 5-10 minutes on Monday, 21st September at 08:30 AM for memory changes: ...

Dear JASMIN users, This message includes information about the following: New high-memory CentOS7 sci machines Retiring RHEL6 high-mem Sci machines on Friday 25th September Hpxfer servers Details of the update The new high-memory (1TB) CentOS7 scientific analysis server with SLURM enabled sci3.jasmin.ac.uk and sci6.jasmin.ac.uk and sci8.jasmin.ac.uk are available for users to use ...