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October 31, 2019 • 5 min read • News
Using JASMIN for the largest ever UK wildlife assessment
Most of the UK’s wildlife is in decline, according to the 2019 State of Nature (SoN) report . However getting to this statement was not an easy process. Imagine trying to measure trends across thousands of different species and millions of datapoints, with biases in the data thrown in for added complexity… but that’s exactly what scientists have now done. The most comprehensive SoN report has now been completed with the help of JASMIN - our globally unique petascale analysis facility for data-intensive environmental science. Researchers relying on JASMIN for their data analysis contributed information to the SoN report, including several wildlife groups that had previously been impossible to analyse.
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October 30, 2019 • 1 min read • News
Elastic Tape, JDMA, and NLA - at risk Wednesday 6th November 0900-1300
The databases of the tape back-end to these systems are having security patches from 09:00 on Wednesday 6th November.
The process could take up to 4 hours.
While the process should be transparent, there is a small risk of individual retrievals being disrupted or delayed, so users are advised to check that any retrievals have completed properly during this period.
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October 24, 2019 • 1 min read • News
JASMIN External Cloud Tenancies Network change today
A network change that will affect a number of virtual machines in External Cloud tenancies is scheduled for today, October 24. If your VMs are going to be affected, you have been already notified about the potential disruption, and you need to take no further action. The disruption will happen in an ad-hoc manner during the day and it will last an expected maximum of 5 minutes per case.
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October 23, 2019 • 1 min read • News
JASMIN & CEDA Services at risk Wednesday 30th Oct
We have been informed that due to electrical work associated with construction in the vicinity of the building in which JASMIN is hosted, there is a low level of risk that power supplies could be affected on this date.
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October 1, 2019 • 2 min read • News
Migration of JASMIN virtual machines - how will this affect you?
RHEL6 virtual machines to be migrated to CentOS7
Currently, many CEDA and JASMIN services are hosted using virtual machines (VMs) which run on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6). These will soon need to be migrated to VMs based on the CentOS7 operating system. This is because:
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