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October 29, 2020 • 1 min read • News
Short JASMIN outage on Wednesday 4th November at 7am
Dear Users,
JASMIN’s host institute at RAL are planning some short breaks in connectivity for a site wide firewall firmware upgrade. This will affect all access to JASMIN - except the DTZ machines and external cloud.
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October 28, 2020 • 1 min read • News
Update on tape library maintenance 26-28 Oct
Dear Users,
Maintenance work to the tape library has now been completed including tests to check that all is operating as expected. The tape library, and hence all tape services: Elastic Tape (ET), Joint Data Migration App (JDMA), StorageD (SD) and Near Line Archive (NLA) are therefore ready for use again.
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October 26, 2020 • 2 min read • News
Reminder - JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 12
Dear JASMIN users,
New CentOS7 MASS client server Old jasmin-cylc.ceda.ac.uk to be retired on Tuesday 3rd November. JASPY default version will be updated on Tuesday 3rd November. Reminder to use the new login, sci and xfer servers Closing down LSF and removing access to LOTUS head node Support for parallel NetCDF libraries (under /apps/jasmin/) ESMValTool installed on JASMIN Details of the update
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October 26, 2020 • 1 min read • News
Reminder - Tape library maintenance 26-28 Oct
This is just a reminder that Tape library maintenance scheduled for Tuesday 27th October will mean that the Elastic Tape (ET) and Near-Line Archive (NLA) services are unavailable from lunchtime today, Monday 26th October until the morning of Wednesday 28th October.
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October 23, 2020 • 1 min read • News
Tape library maintenance 26-28 Oct
Tape library maintenance scheduled for Tuesday 27th October will mean that the Elastic Tape (ET) and Near-Line Archive (NLA) services are unavailable from lunchtime on Monday 26th October until the morning of Wednesday 28th October.
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October 21, 2020 • 2 min read • News
HadUK-Grid version v1.0.2.1 released including data for 2019
In 2019 the CEDA Archive published a valuable and popular HadUK-Grid dataset collection. This collection, provided by the Met Office contains gridded climate variables derived from the network of UK land surface observations, particularly notable in that it spans a long time-series. Over the last few months the Met Office have been preparing the latest release of the HadUK-Grid data covering 1862-2019 and has now been made freely available to download from the CEDA Archive service.
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October 21, 2020 • 2 min read • News
MIDAS Open version 202007 released More UK weather station data added
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.
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