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. ...

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. ...

A reminder there is a “change freeze” in place from 17:00 today. Requests for new or changes to existing services will not be dealt with until the New Year. ...

The Near-Line Archive (NLA) tape system will be unavailable from the evening of Friday the 4th December until Monday the 7th December 2020. No new retrievals will be accepted from the evening of Friday 4th December, so as to allow any remaining retrievals to finish over the weekend. ...

As we approach the Christmas period, please be aware of the limited support arrangements in place which will result in CEDA and JASMIN services running “at-risk”. ...

We are delighted to announce the launch of our brand new JASMIN website - https://www.jasmin.ac.uk/ . Take a look to see the difference! ...

Over the last year, the team has worked hard to migrate all of our services to a new operating system (CentOS7). The deadline for this work to be achieved is Monday 30th November. The majority of user-facing services have now been migrated successfully with minimal disruption to users. However, a small number of services still need to be migrated. ...

In the past month, and following the configuration changes to LOTUS over the summer, we have not been able to fully resolve issues around longer queue wait times, despite the mechanisms outlined here. ...

Dear JASMIN users, New MASS client server is available Old mass-cli1.ceda.ac.uk server will be retired on Tuesday 17th November Old jasmin-cylc.ceda.ac.uk has been retired JASPY default version was updated on Tuesday 3rd November Reminder to use the new login, sci and xfer servers SLURM update Details of the update The new CentOS7 MASS mass-cli.jasmin.ac.uk server is now available for use. ...