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August 22, 2024 • 1 min read • News
August bank holiday weekend arrangements - Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th August 2024
Dear All,
Services will be unsupported on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th August due to the bank holiday on Monday 26th and RAL site holiday on Tuesday 27th. Staff leave during the remainder of the week will also mean that responses to queries may take longer than usual.
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July 29, 2024 • 5 min read • News
Data, docker and Django - Rory and Zach’s Journey at CEDA
This year, CEDA had the pleasure of welcoming two industrial placement students, Rory Jenns and Zach Wharton, who joined us as Software Engineers for their Industrial Placement year. Hailing from the University of Nottingham and Loughborough University, respectively, Rory and Zach have spent the past 12 months diving into various projects, from software development to stakeholder engagement and system deployment. Let’s take a look at the fantastic work they accomplished during their time with us.
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July 10, 2024 • 1 min read • News
Catalogue service update complete.
CEDA’s data catalogue service update has been complete and should no longer be considered at risk. This roll our brings some minor cosmetic changes to users and a more resilient server overall to reduce future disruption and aid future service roll outs.
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June 19, 2024 • 2 min read • News
Software and operating system changes - update 1
This is the first update about our progress migrating operating systems on JASMIN from CentOS7 to Rocky Linux 9 as announced previously here. Details of the migration in particular software packages can be found here .
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June 14, 2024 • 2 min read • News
Quota issue with SOF storage volumes
Dear users,
We are aware of an issue with volume quotas in the SOF storage system, affecting GWS volumes /gws/nopw/j04/* and CEDA Archive volumes. It appears that the system is permitting writes beyond the initial volume quota, then artificially increasing the quota reported by “df -H” up to a point where writes are no longer possible. The volume quota is initially set when a volume is created; this is recorded in the JASMIN Projects Portal and available to view in the GWS Dashboard at https://mon.jasmin.ac.uk (accounts portal credentials required). This is the true volume quota: it appears that the value reported by df -H has become unreliable in these cases. The suggested course of action for GWS managers is as follows:
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