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May 14, 2024 • 4 min read • News
Fostering Early Career Excellence - Insights from the NCAS Early Career Symposium
The National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) recently hosted the first-ever symposium for the early career atmospheric science community - Harmony in the Skies: Bridging Horizons in Atmospheric Science. Two CEDA graduates, Jesse Alexander and Nicola Farmer, helped organise the event, which was designed to bring staff early in their atmospheric science careers together.
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May 8, 2024 • 3 min read • News
Major investment triples capacity for analysing environmental data
Scientists will soon have access to triple the processing power for analysing environmental data. A £5.7 million investment for expanding the parallel compute cluster, called LOTUS , on JASMIN has been secured. The improved infrastructure allows much greater volume of parallel computing tasks - where multiple streams of data analysis tasks are undertaken at the same time - whilst reducing the time that users have to wait for their analysis to complete. Capacity will be tripled and will be available to users from Summer 2024.
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May 3, 2024 • 4 min read • News
Software and operating system updates coming soon to JASMIN
Moving to Rocky Linux 9 For the past few weeks and months we have been preparing for a change of operating system version on JASMIN. We are now sharing our plans and progress with you, so that you are aware of the remaining changes about to happen. We can then keep you up to date with further progress as the migration gets underway.
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April 30, 2024 • 2 min read • News
CEDA facilitating simplified access to Earth observation data - EO DataHub awards £3 million
CEDA, on behalf of the EO DataHub, is delighted to announce the award of significant further contracts aimed at unlocking the potential of Earth Observation (EO) data and completing the team for this landmark project. These contracts represent a significant milestone in the collaboration between commercial technology providers, application developers and data sources to deliver a first digital national EO infrastructure.
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April 3, 2024 • 1 min read • News
Updates to jaspy and jasr software environments
The following software environments jaspy and jasr will have new default versions on Tuesday 16th April (JASMIN patch day):
jaspy: Python, and other tools and libraries. based on Python 3.11, release notes at https://github.com/cedadev/ceda-jaspy-envs/releases/tag/jaspy3.11_r20240302 jasr: R tools and libraries. based on R 4.3, release notes at https://github.com/cedadev/ceda-jaspy-envs/releases/tag/jasr4.3_r20240320 The new version of Jaspy (jaspy/3.11/r20240302) and Jasr (jasr/4.3/r20240320) will become the default version that is obtained when using module load jaspy or module load jasr without an explicit version number.
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March 27, 2024 • 2 min read • News
Easter updates for CEDA and JASMIN users
Please note the following updates for your attention:
CEDA and JASMIN support over the Easter period JASMIN regular scheduled maintenance Tuesday 16th April 2024 Updated JASMIN dashboard now available Information for JASMIN cloud tenancy managers As usual over the Easter period, CEDA and JASMIN services will be running at risk. Our helpdesks will be closed out of working hours and staff leave during the school holidays also means that staff levels after the Easter weekend may be reduced.
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March 20, 2024 • 1 min read • Jasmin
JASMIN Webinars available to watch now!
The recording from the latest JASMIN seminar series is available to watch on Yotube.
You can click here to watch the JASMIN talks given from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology All of the previous JASMIN Seminars have also been recorded and the slides saved. You can check out the other seminars on our event page here.
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