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May 31, 2018 • 5 min read • News
Global gathering of data scientists at PV2018 - view their presentations now!
PV2018 took place at CEDA’s home site in Harwell, Oxfordshire on 15-17th May. The conference focussed on addressing the opportunities in understanding vast datasets and assessing ways to take that new information and make it useable to the widest variety of disciplines for societal benefit and commercial growth.
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May 3, 2018 • 3 min read • News
CEDA Data Catalogue - new, improved search functions!
Finding the right data for your research can often be a daunting task… especially when faced with a vast archive of over 5000 datasets with 180 million files to choose from, such as in the CEDA archive! However, CEDA are pleased to announce a major step towards helping resolve this conundrum; bringing the power of industry search tools and direct metadata harvesting at scale to solve these problems.
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April 13, 2018 • 2 min read • News
Getting started with JASMIN - watch the webinar now!
On 21st March, we ran our first ever webinar called ‘Getting started with JASMIN’. The aim of the webinar was to provide a basic overview for new users wanting to learn about what JASMIN is, and how to get access. Over 80 people registered, from a range of institutes and scientific disciplines. The webinar was recorded and is freely available to view here . We plan to run future webinars approximately every 3 months.
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April 3, 2018 • 1 min read • News
CEDA WPS Service presently down
The CEDA Web Processing Service (WPS) is presently encountering issues following migration of relates storage areas supporting this service. The systems admin team are presently investigating this issue and we hope that normal service will resume soon. ...
March 9, 2018 • 1 min read • News
CEDA archive and websites unavailable on 14th March due to JASMIN upgrade
As you may be aware, JASMIN is undergoing a massive upgrade (more info here) to double its storage capability to 44PB. This means that there will be some disruption to services on 14th March between 07:00 - 19:00. ...
March 8, 2018 • 4 min read • News
Upgrade to UK environmental science supercomputer will make it twice as capable
A major upgrade is being made to double the storage available on JASMIN; a globally unique data intensive supercomputer for environmental science. The upgraded system will support the global analysis of the next generation of climate models and provide a venue for UK academia and industry to exploit Earth observation data.
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March 8, 2018 • 3 min read • News
Celebrating International Women’s Day at CEDA
Today is International Women’s Day and we’d like to celebrate our diverse team within CEDA. At present, we have 12 female colleagues who make up approximately 40% of the team. Our roles range from User Support on the helpdesk, to Data Scientists, to Head of CEDA; all falling within Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) areas. Historically, there are inequalities in gender within these areas and we are continually working to improve the balance.
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March 7, 2018 • 2 min read • News
JASMIN upgrade reminders and further information
JASMIN Unavailability Wednesday 14th March (see previous email) Changes to Group Workspace Storage (see previous email) Changes to /work/scratch storage. Draining of LOTUS jobs starts TODAY 7th March. General “at risk” during phase4 installation work. For Items 1 & 2, please refer to our earlier announcement of 23/02/2018 or visit http://www.jasmin.ac.uk/phase4 for details.
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