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January 10, 2019 • 1 min read • News
UKRI Cloud Workshop - free registration now open
The UKRI Cloud Workshop is being held on the 12th February at the Francis Crick Institute in central London.
The event provides an opportunity for the members of the UK research community to meet and find out more about how they can make use of cloud computing with their research or share experiences and best practice with existing applications that run on cloud.
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December 21, 2018 • 3 min read • News
Prestigious ESGF awards for CEDA staff members
Earlier this month, three CEDA staff members were presented with awards at the annual ESGF conference. The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is a collaborative project for distributing climate data, especially from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) models. It gives users a unified interface to search for and download data hosted at numerous data centres internationally.
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December 17, 2018 • 3 min read • News
NEW DATASET LAUNCHED HadUK-Grid
The CEDA archive has published a valuable new dataset this week, called HadUK-Grid. This dataset, provided by the Met Office, is a collection of gridded climate variables derived from the network of UK land surface observations. What makes this dataset notable is that it spans a long time-series (1862-2017) and is freely available to download from our archive.
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November 15, 2018 • 3 min read • News
Important use of JASMIN storage - ALL USERS PLEASE READ
As we proceed with providing storage space to Group Workspaces on JASMIN’s new Scale-Out File System (SOF) storage, it is important that users understand some critical differences between this storage and the Panasas storage used elsewhere in the system.
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October 31, 2018 • 1 min read • News
Goodbye JASMIN1, hello JASMIN4
After six years of faithful service, the last 4.5 Petabytes of JASMIN1 Panasis storage has undergone its final secure erase, ready for decommissioning. This is one of the many steps being undertaken during JASMIN Phase 4 which will see the capacity increase to over 44PB by the end of 2018. Examples of this ongoing work include:
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September 10, 2018 • 4 min read • News
CEDA dataset expertise informs Google’s new dataset search
CEDA staff have contributed to a new search tool launched on 5th September by Google that aims to help scientists, policy makers and other user groups more easily find the data required for their work and their stories, or simply to satisfy their intellectual curiosity.
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July 23, 2018 • 2 min read • News
CEDA Archive Support for ERA5 use
The CEDA user communirt have made great use of ECMWF’s ERA Interim reanalyis data over recent years, taking advantage of having co-hosted access to these and other data from the CEDA archives alongside their own resources within the JASMIN environment. ECMWF are presently producing their latest re-analysis product, ERA5, which promises even greater spatial and temporal resolutions as well as new parameters. However, with improved resolution comes greater data volumes, with ERA5 forecast to produce around 10 Pb worth of data by the end of 2018.
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