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November 6, 2019 • 1 min read • News
JASMIN storage maintenance 27th November all services should be considered unavailable
Further scheduled maintenance is required on Wednesday 27th November to supplement the work recently undertaken on 14th October. The work this time will focus mainly on the Panasas system, used for parallel file system (PFS) storage.
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November 6, 2019 • 1 min read • News
Elastic Tape, JDMA, and NLA - end of at risk period - Wednesday 6th November 0900-1300
The update activity is now complete.
November 4, 2019 • 2 min read • News
MIDAS Open version 201908 released More UK weather station data added
Earlier this year the Met Office released the “ MIDAS Open ” dataset, a publically available version of the popular, but restricted, Met Office Integrated Data Archive System ( MIDAS ) Land and Marine Surface Stations dataset. Thanks to the efforts of the MIDAS Open team at the Met Office we’ve now published an updated version of MIDAS Open, bringing in new data for 2018 and updates for some existing years too. Though aimed at being of interest to everyone, we anticipate these new data will be particularly useful for service providers or members of the public who have previously been unable to use the restricted MIDAS dataset.
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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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