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July 20, 2020 • 1 min read • News
UPDATE Tape systems unavailable 21-28 July (duration extended)
Dear users,
Maintenance work previously announced for 22-24 July 2020 will add additional capacity to the tape library shared by CEDA and JASMIN tape services. The tape library, and hence all tape services: Elastic Tape (ET) and StorageD (SD) and Near Line Archive (NLA) will be unavailable for this period.
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July 16, 2020 • 1 min read • News
Reminder - IMPORTANT Changes to Scratch Storage
Dear JASMIN users,
As previously announced:
The old scratch volume /work/scratch remains available READ ONLY until Friday 31st July but will then be retired. A new volume /work/scratch-pw is now in place on PFS (parallel file system) storage with a total capacity of 1 Petabyte. Both /work/scratch-pw and /work/scratch-nopw have automated processes to “police” usage by deleting files that have not been accessed for the past 28 days. Please be aware that this automated clearout process will now start running on a weekly basis from this Friday 17th July.
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July 9, 2020 • 1 min read • News
Tape systems unavailable 22-24 July
Dear users,
Maintenance work is planned for 22-24 July 2020 to add additional capacity to the tape library shared by CEDA and JASMIN tape services. The tape library, and hence all tape services: Elastic Tape (ET) and StorageD (SD) and Near Line Archive (NLA) will be unavailable for this period
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July 3, 2020 • 1 min read • News
ESGF user feedback survey
We would like to announce the launch of the ESGF user feedback survey 2020.
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July 3, 2020 • 2 min read • News
JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 9
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Update on SLURM & CentOS7 LOTUS cluster sci[1,2].jasmin.ac.uk with SLURM enabled New CentOS7 JASMIN cylc server New CentOS7 cron server Details of the update 1. More LOTUS hosts have been migrated to CentOS7 and added to the pool of hosts managed by the new batch scheduler SLURM. All LOTUS users are expected to use SLURM. The recording and PPT presentation of the first webinar on transitioning from LSF to SLURM are now available here ...
June 29, 2020 • 1 min read • News
Reminder User survey to gauge needs in preparation for purchase of a new GPU cluster
This is just a reminder that the planned 2020 upgrade for JASMIN will include a substantial upgrade to JASMIN GPU capacity. While we have a panel of experts helping us develop requirements, it will be useful for us to get direct feedback about actual and potential GPU usage within the community of existing and potential JASMIN users. To that end we have a short survey. It should only take 5-10 minutes to complete, and we would value you doing that before the end of June.
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June 24, 2020 • 1 min read • News
Reminder - IMPORTANT Changes to Scratch Storage
Dear JASMIN users,
Please note the following changes that affect the /work/scratch
We have previously announced that the new scratch volume /work/scratch-pw is available. This volume is on PFS (parallel file system) storage with a total capacity of 1 Petabyte, but has automated processes in place to “police” usage. The old volume, /work/scratch will be available for READ access only from this Friday 26th June until 31st July. Please do not run batch jobs that write to /work/scratch as your job will fail.
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June 22, 2020 • 4 min read • News
JASMIN and CEDA services affected by power outage - now resolved
Update 1 - 22/06/2020 17:00 JASMIN and CEDA Archive services have been offline today due a power outage that affected the entire RAL site (including the JASMIN machine room) at approximately 13.30 on Monday 22 June 2020. The power is now back, but not all remaining actions can be carried out remotely. ...