Scheduled maintenance is planned for Tuesday 15th September, which may cause some disruption to JASMIN and CEDA services. On a regular (roughly quarterly) basis, important updates are applied to systems within the JASMIN infrastructure (which also hosts the CEDA Archive and associated services) in order to keep them up to date and secure. Some servers may need to be rebooted in order for these changes to take effect, so there may be an interruption to some JASMIN and CEDA services on this date. The maintenance work will also include a network change which should help prevent recent problems experienced with the virtualization cluster. ...

The Near-Line Archive (NLA) tape system will be unavailable from Friday the 11th September until Tuesday 15th September 2020. During this time the operating system of the NLA server will be updated. ...

Maintenance work on the Spectra tape library is now planned for tomorrow Tuesday 8th September, which may mean a delay to tape retrievals with Elastic Tape (ET) and Near-Line Archive (NLA) services. ...

In line with the bank holiday shutdown of CEDA’s host institute, the CEDA and JASMIN teams will be unavailable from 16:00 today (Friday 28th August) until 09:00 on Wednesday 2nd September. ...

Dear JASMIN users, This message includes information about the following: Update on SLURM and the CentOS7 LOTUS cluster Timeline to retire old RHEL6 login, sci and data transfer servers New high-memory CentOS7 sci machines Details of the update ...

Dear Users, We would like to update you about the issues that affected the JASMIN virtualisation platform yesterday, Monday 24th August. Those issues have now been resolved and all JASMIN Services are back online. ...

We are currently experiencing issues affecting our entire virtualisation platform. This is likely to include login and sci-analysis machines, VMs in the JASMIN Cloud and many JASMIN/CEDA services. Please consider all services at-risk/unavailable until further notice. ...

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. ...

Dear users, This is a reminder to please be aware that further maintenance work on the tape library system used is now scheduled for Tuesday 18th August 2020 for one day, however it will be taken out of service from 17:00 today to clear any queued tasks first. This will mean that the Elastic Tape (ET, whether accessed directly or via the JDMA interface) and Near-Line Archive services will be unavailable for this period. ...