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April 22, 2020 • 1 min read • News
Update on JASMIN Maintenance 21 April 2020
Following scheduled maintenance on parts of the JASMIN system yesterday, please note the following:
Servers were patched and rebooted where necessary to apply important updates. There were nearly double the number of hosts to update this time, as we transition from RHEL6 to CentOS7 operating systems, so this took longer than usual.
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April 17, 2020 • 2 min read • News
CEDA helps design new Girlguiding and Scouts challenge
A group of RAL Space graduates, including a member of the CEDA team, have created a new, free challenge for Girlguiding and Scout groups that is designed to introduce different science and engineering careers to young people, through hands-on activities.
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April 8, 2020 • 1 min read • News
GWS (/gws/nopw/j04/) performance issue
Dear JASMIN users,
We are aware that users are experiencing difficulties with performance and access to some resources on JASMIN at present. This is due to a problem with one of the storage servers.
This will affect the performance of Group Workspaces under the path /gws/nopw/j04 - we believe that small files (<64KB) and symbolic links are more likely to be affected.
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April 1, 2020 • 1 min read • News
JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 5
We are pleased to announce that the two new scientific analysis servers, “ sci1.jasmin.ac.uk ” and “ sci2.jasmin.ac.uk ” are now available with the CentOS7 systems and the new software environments1. These two VMs are available for testing and they are listed in the table of available “sci” servers shown when you log in to any of the login servers. [Please note that the domain name of the new “sci” servers has changed from “ .ceda.ac.uk” to “ .jasmin.ac.uk ”].
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March 24, 2020 • 1 min read • News
COVID-19 lockdown- impact on CEDA and JASMIN operations
As we are sure you are already aware, the latest government restrictions on travel mean that any issues requiring physical intervention to the JASMIN infrastructure (e.g. a visit to the machine room by a member of the technical team) could now take up to a day or more to resolve. Strict procedures are in place to keep our key members of staff safe whilst they visit the RAL site - but these procedures take time to organise, hence the anticipated delays. ...
March 19, 2020 • 2 min read • News
New service Jupyter notebooks on JASMIN
We are pleased to announce the release of a new JASMIN service providing access to Jupyter notebooks. What is the JASMIN Notebook service?
The JASMIN Notebook service provides access to Jupyter Notebooks in the web browser. A Jupyter Notebook is an interactive document containing live code and visualisations that can be viewed and modified in a web browser. These documents can be shared, often using GitHub, and many projects distribute example code as Jupyter notebooks. Users interact with their notebooks using the open-source Jupyter Notebook server application.
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