News
September 3, 2014 • 1 min read • News
Global Radiosonde data updates not available since August 2013 - alternative data source available
Due to issues acquiring the Met Office Global Radiosonde data from the Met Office archive, the Global Radiosonde archive at CEDA-BADC has not been updated since August 2013. Sadly, there has not been sufficient resources available to resolve this. We are however hoping that we might see some progress in due course.
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July 22, 2014 • 2 min read • News
Update JASMIN VM disruptions 22/07
Following a hardware failure on one of the pair of disk arrays which housing the JASMIN virtual machine (VM) images over the weekend, the SCD team supporting the JASMIN infrastructure have managed to recover most VM images from the array, with the result that most affected VMs are now back up and running.
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January 8, 2014 • 1 min read • News
News article on JASMIN Expansion Phases 2 and 3
Major expansion for the JASMIN super-data-cluster After a successful first year of operations for JASMIN, which saw many exciting science collaborations taking advantage of the JASMIN petascale data processing and storage, the system began to operate near capacity. It was clear there was a pent up demand for a “big data analytic environment” in the environmental science community.
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November 14, 2013 • 2 min read • News
CHARMe Project News Datasets annotations a step closer!
Being able to “tag” datasets with useful annotations has been one of the deliverables of the EU funded Characterisation of metadata to enable high-quality climate applications and services - CHARMe project that CEDA is assisting with. The following tatement comes from Paul van der Linden, the CHARMe project communicator, highlighting the progress to deliver this exciting new feature for data centre users:
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