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. ...

The update to data.ceda.ac.uk is now completed. We apologise for a longer than expected downtime, this was caused by a slow network connection. ...

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 ...

We would like to announce the launch of the ESGF user feedback survey 2020. ...

This message includes information about the following: 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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...